Section: Novinite (Bulgaria)
Belarus Ready to Mediate in Turkey-Russia Conflict
Belarus stands ready to put in “maximum effort” to help wind down tensions between Russia and Turkey, but cannot impose mediation on either side, PM Vladimir Makei has said.In an interview for Belarus 1 TV station quoted by Russian news websites, he has added the country’s President, Aleksandr Lukashenko, held phone...
Expelled Leader of DPS: a Turkish Fifth Column or a Lonely Dissident?
Bulgarian journalists hoping for a rest around Christmas were disappointed after a “breaking” event shook the political landscape, even if the quake is only on the surface. Lyutvi Mestan, who headed the Movement for Rights and Freedoms (DPS), was both removed as leader and expelled from his party after the honorary chair and co-founder, Ahmed...
Russia to Keep Trying to Resolve Trade Dusputes with EU, Ukraine – Putin
Russian President Vladimir Putin has said that Moscow will continue making efforts to resolve existing disputes in its trade relations with the European Union and Ukraine, Reuters reported on Tuesday, citing Russian news agencies. “I think we will return to these issues more than once. We want to normalise relations (in trade) with our...
Portsmouth Football Club Honours Bulgaria’s Svetoslav Todorov
English football team Portsmouth honoured retired Bulgarian striker Svetoslav Todorov by admitting him to the club’s hall of fame. The Bulgarian was one of four players to be admitted to the club’s hall of fame together with Noel Blake, Dave Kemp and Billy Haines, who was honoured posthumously. Todorov is best remembered for scoring...
Tourism Minister Expects 30% More Russian Visitors to Bulgaria Next Year
Bulgaria is expecting an increase in the number of Russian tourists to Bulgaria in 2016, the country’s Tourism Minister Nikolina Angelkova has said.Speaking during a visit to Plovdiv, the second-largest Bulgarian city, Angelkova has added the upward trend is mostly due to the complications for Russians who previously used to spend their...
Russia to Impose Retaliatory Economic Sanctions on Ukraine Jan 1
Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev has signed a decree imposing trade barriers on Ukraine in response to Kiev joining Western sanctions against Moscow. “Starting from January 1, 2016 Ukraine will come under economic measures in response to its joining of the anti-Russian sanctions of the European Union and the United States,”...
Bulgarian President Calls for 2016 to be Year of Stability, Reforms
Bulgarian President Rosen Plevneliev called for 2016 to be a year of stability and reforms. In an interview for the Bulgarian National Television (BNT) on Friday, Plevneliev highlighted that the next year will be decisive for the healthcare and judicial reforms. As regards the amendments to the constitution concerning the reform of the judiciary,...
Number of Forced Displaced People Expected to Exceed 60 Million in 2015
According to estimates of the UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR), the number of people subject to forced displacement will exceed 60 million for the first time in 2015. This means that one in every 122 people in the world has been forced to flee their home. The latest report, which is based on projections from the first half of this year, shows increase...
Nord Stream II Not in EU Interests, Donald Tusk Says
Nord Stream II, a proposed new Russia-Germany gas pipeline, is not in the EU’s interests, the European Council President Donald Tusk has said. “In my perspective, Nord Stream [II] does not help diversification, nor would it reduce our energy dependency,” Tusk said at a press conference in Brussels on Friday, according to euobserver.com....
EU Ambassadors Agree to Extend Sanctions on Russia to end-July 2016
European Union envoys have agreed to extend the bloc’s economic sanctions on Russia over the crisis in Ukraine by another six months until 31 July 2016, newswires reported on Friday. The sanctions, which apply to Russia’s oil, military and energy sectors as well as individuals linked to the Ukraine conflict, were to expire on 31...
