Section: Novinite (Bulgaria)
Bulgaria Never Made Commitments to Participate in Black Sea Flotilla
Bulgaria had never made commitments to participate in the establishment of a trilateral flotilla in the Black Sea or any other regional initiatives with Turkey and Romania. This was stated by Bulgarian Foreign Minister Daniel Mitov and Defence Minister Nikolay Nenchev in a joint briefing on Friday. Mitov and Nenchev spoke to journalists after a...
Bulgarian Foreign Minister, WJC Delegation Discuss Challenges to Regional, Global Security
Bulgaria’s Foreign Minister Daniel Mitov and visiting representatives of the World Jewish Congress (WJC) discussed challenges to regional and global security, the Foreign Ministry in Sofia announced in a statement on Thursday. The crisis in the Ukraine, the situation in the Black Sea region and the Middle East as well as the migration...
Gazprom Plans to Further Increase Gas Exports to Non-CIS Countries
Gazprom plans to export at least 165 billion cubic meters of gas to non-CIS countries in 2016, the deputy chairman of the management board, Alexander Medvedev, has said. The Russian gas giant’s exports to non-CIS countrues had increased by 8% year-on-year in 2015, reaching 159.4 billion cubic meters, Medvedev said at an international...
Bulgaria Keeps Options Open in Talks on Black Sea Exercises – FM
Bulgarian Foreign Minister Daniel Mitov made clear on Wednesday the country leaves the door open for talks that could bring about a “balanced format of drills in the Black Sea”.Mitov told the Bulgarian National Television’s morning program that NATO must show its determination to defend member states as there is “a buildup...
Bulgaria Granted Citizenship to 62 049 Foreigners in Past Five Years
Bulgaria has granted citizenship to 62 049 foreign citizens in the past five years. This becomes clear in a written response of Bulgarian Justice Minister Ekaterina Zaharieva to a MP. A total of 60 194 foreigners were issued with Bulgarian identity document on grounds of their Bulgarian origin, while the remaining 1855 became Bulgarian citizens...
Russia Has Extended Embargo on Food Imports from Bulgaria by 1 Year
Russia has extended the embargo on imports of food products from Bulgaria by another year. This was announced by Bulgarian Agriculture Minister Desislava Taneva in Burgas on Monday, Darik radio quotes her as saying. The embargo was imposed due to the stance of Bulgaria in relation to the situation in Crimea and the Russian involvement there. The...
France Calls on EU Leaders to Consider Potential Relaxation of Russia Sanctions
French Foreign Minister Jean-Marc Ayrault on Monday called on EU leaders to discuss possible offers for relaxation of the economic sanctions imposed by the Union on Russia over the Ukraine crisis if there was significant progress in the implementation of the Minsk peace accords. The summit should send “some signs of encouragement to everyone”,...
Number of Forcibly Displaced People Hit Record 65.3 Million in 2015
According to the latest Global Trends report of the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) released on Monday, 65.3 million people around the world were forcibly displaced at the end of last year, meaning that one in every 113 was either asylum-seeker, internally displaced or refugee. This is the largest number of forcibly displaced people...
Russian Author under Scrutiny from Bulgaria’s Security Service
Bulgaria’s domestic security and counter-intelligence agency DANS is closely monitoring the activities of a Russian social scientist who in May published an article about the country, Prime Minister Boyko Borisov has said.Responding to an inquiry by Metodi Andreev, a lawmakers from his GERB party, Borisov has explained that, while the...
Bulgarian DefMin Dismisses Reports about Proposed Joint Naval Force with Romania, Turkey
Reports about an alleged proposal to set up a joint naval fleet with Romania and Turkey to counter a perceived Russian threat in the Black Sea were a “propaganda war with elements of hybrid warfare tactics”, Bulgaria’s Defence Minister Nikolay Nenchev has said. Romania had only proposed joint actions and training with the aim to boost...
