Section: Novinite (Bulgaria)
Trilateral Contact Group Agrees on Withdrawal of Weapons in Eastern Ukraine
The Working Group on Security of the Trilateral Contact Group, which involves representatives of Ukraine, Russia and the OSCE, reached an agreement on Tuesday on the withdrawal of tanks and other weapons from the frontline in eastern Ukraine. The latest agreement supplements the Minsk ceasefire accords, which were signed in February. Martin...
Russia to Close Airspace to All Ukrainian Planes on October 25 in Retaliation to Ban
Russia announced on Tuesday that it will close its airspace to all Ukrainian planes starting from October 25. In a statement, the Russian Transport Ministry called on the Federal Air Transport Agency to inform Ukrainian airlines of a ban on using Russian airspace. This is a retaliatory measure in response to the unilateral move of Ukraine to...
Putin, Obama Hold Constructive, Frank Talks on Syria, Ukraine
Russian President Vladimir Putin and his US counterpart Barack Obama held constructive and frank talks during a meeting on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly session in New York on Monday. This constituted their first face-to-face meeting in nearly a year, the two presidents having last met at the APEC summit in China in November 2014....
Putin Says Russia Seeking to Set Up Regional Anti-IS Network
Russia is trying to establish “some kind of a coordination network” to cooperate with Middle Eastern countries in the fight against Islamic State, Russian President Vladimir Putin has said.In an interview with CBS and PBS channels of which the Kremlin’s press service informed, he added he had informed Turkey, Jordan, Saudi...
Bulgaria’s DefMin Raises ‘Hybrid Warfare’ Hypothesis over MiG-29s
Bulgaria probably used to pay twice the normal price for the maintenance contracts it had with Russian company RSK MiG to repair fighter jets from its military aircraft fleet, Defense Minister Nikolay Nenchev has said.In an interview with private national NOVA TV channel, Nenchev suggested the money might have been used either for...
Bulgaria Working on Joint ‘Balkan’ Tourism Product
Tourism Minister Nikolina Angelkova has said that Bulgaria is to present a joint tourism product with “neighboring Balkan countries”. In an interview with Focus News Agency on Sunday, she has explained that Bulgaria and Romania, which have already applied with a joint project under the INTERREG (European Territorial Cooperation)...
EU, Ukraine, Russia Agree on October-March Gas Supplies
Three-way talks involving the EU, Russia and Ukraine have ended with an agreement on the terms of gas supplies between October this year and March 2016, the EU Commission has said. Ukraine will be committed to securing transit via its territory to the EU, while Russia will lower prices at which it is selling gas to Ukraine by decreasing the...
Putin, Obama to Meet During UN General Assembly Session on September 28
Russian President Vladimir Putin and his US counterpart Barack Obama will meet on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly session which will be held on September 28. The information was confirmed both by Russian and US officials on Thursday, TASS news agency reports. Despite their profound differences over the conflicts in Ukraine and Syria, the...
Bulgaria to Host 2016 Arraiolos Meeting of EU Presidents
Bulgaria will host the 2016 edition of the Arraiolos meeting, which gathers the non-executive presidents of EU member states. Bulgarian President Rosen Plevneliev identified the hosting of the meeting as a historical success for Bulgaria and its foreign policy. He stated this at the end of this year’s edition, which was hosted by the German...
Bulgaria’s IntMin Concerned about Surge in Car Thefts
A growing number of motor vehicle thefts has been registered over the first seven months of 2015, Bulgarian Interior Minister Rumyana Bachvarova has said. Since January, there have been 2696 cases of cars being stolen – or roughly 385 per month, BGNES wire service quotes her as saying.Half of these took place in the capital Sofia, which is...
