Section: Novinite (Bulgaria)
Tourism Minister: 4.5 Million Foreigners Visited Bulgaria Last Summer
Tourism Minister Nikolina Angelkova stated on Saturday that 4.5 million foreign tourists visited Bulgaria in the summer of this year, which represented a drop of 3.3 %. Angelkova added that according to expectations, the number of tourists from Ukraine and Russia decreased by 25 %. However there was a forecast for 30 % increase in the number of...
Russian Sanctions Will Not Bring Turkey to Its Knees – Turkish Ambassador to Bulgaria
According to Turkish ambassador to Bulgaria His Excellency Suleyman Gokce, the sanctions imposed by Moscow in response to the downing of the Russian Su-24 bomber by two Turkish F-16 fighter jets on the Turkish-Syrian border on November 24, will not bring Ankara to its knees. Gokce noted that Turkey is a great country, being the sixteenth largest...
Klaus-Dieter Borchardt: Bulgaria Has Potential to Develop into Gas Hub
“For too long Bulgaria and other countries of the region have been concentrating on large scale pipeline projects such as South Stream and have left behind the development of important regional infrastructure, notably interconnections with neighbouring countries,” Klaus-Dieter Borchardt, Director Internal Energy Market at the European...
Russia Will Respond to NATO Membership Invitation to Montenegro, Kremlin Says
Russia will have to react to NATO’s invitation to Montenegro to join the Alliance, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov has said. “Moscow has always noted at various levels that the continuing expansion of NATO and NATO’s military infrastructure to the East, of course, cannot but lead to response actions from the East, namely from...
Russia Will Respond to NATO Invitation to Montenegro to Join, Kremlin Says
Russia will have to react to NATO’s invitation to Montenegro to join the Alliance, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov has said. “Moscow has always noted at various levels that the continuing expansion of NATO and NATO’s military infrastructure to the East, of course, cannot but lead to response actions from the East, namely from...
NATO Foreign Ministers to Discuss Security Challenges, Relations with Russia
The foreign ministers of NATO member countries will convene at a two-day meeting in Brussels on Tuesday and Wednesday to discuss current security issues and challenges. The main issues on the agenda are Afghanistan, challenges from the south, relations with Russia, support to Ukraine and Montenegro’s bid to join NATO. The ministerial starts...
Pentagon Sending Military Hardware to Romania, Bulgaria This Month
The Pentagon has announced that about 70 pieces of U.S. military equipment will arrive in Romania from Germany on Tuesday to support Operation Atlantic Resolve. Other equipment will arrive in Bulgaria and Lithuania later this month, a Pentagon spokesman annonunced on Monday, according to a news release posted on the U.S. Defense Department...
Pentagon to Send Military Hardware to Romania, Bulgaria This Month
The Pentagon has announced that about 70 pieces of U.S. military equipment will arrive in Romania from Germany on Tuesday to support Operation Atlantic Resolve. Other equipment will arrive in Bulgaria and Lithuania later this month, a Pentagon spokesman annonunced on Monday, according to a news release posted on the U.S. Defense Department...
Obama Expresses Regret to Putin Over Downed Su-24 Bomber
US President Barack Obama expressed on Monday regret to his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin over the downed Russian Su-24 bomber. Putin and Obama met on the sidelines of the United Nations Climate Change Conference, which is taking place in Paris between November 30 and December 11. The meeting between the two presidents lasted for about...
Bulgaria Backs Nord Stream-2, Standing Up for Own Gas Hub Project
Bulgarian Prime Minister Boyko Borisov said on Sunday Sofia is not intending to take action against the Nord Stream-2 gas pipeline project.On the sidelines of an EU-Turkey summit in Brussels, he commented on last week’s reports by Reuters that Sofia would be one of the signatories to a letter calling on the EU Commission to scrutinize the...
