Section: Bulgaria
Netflix Available in Bulgaria as Part of Expansion Around the World
Bulgaria is one of the 130 countries to which video streamer Netflix surprisingly announced on Wednesday it is expanding, its newly published list shows.Netflix co-founder and CEO Reed Hastings is quoted as saying at CES 2016, an international technology event, that the company is now bringing about “a new global TV network”.Another...
More Visitors to Bulgaria’s Ski Resorts during Christmas Holidays This Season
Bulgarian Tourism Minister Nikolina Angelkova has said more people visited ski resorts in the country around Christmas and New Year compared to the 2014-2015 winter holidays.Early estimates suggest the increase is nearly 3 percent, with some 370 tourists (both domestic and foreign) visiting and hotels cashing in BGN 337 M (EUR 172 M) from...
Bulgaria to remain factor of stability in dynamic geostrategic environment: minister
In an interview for the Bulgarian Telegraph Agency about the challenges of Bulgaria’s foreign policy in 2016, Bulgaria’s Minister of Foreign Affairs Daniel Mitov said that Sofia would aim at assisting the countries in solving the problems that remained unsolved in 2015 such as the refugee and immigrant flow from the Middle East and...
Natural gas woes – obscurity during winter
On New Year’s Eve Bulgaria narrowly missed a rather unpleasant “déjà vu.” The case between Overgas and Gazprom reminded us of the frosty days at the beginning of January 2009, when deliveries of Russian gas through Ukraine stopped completely because of financial disputes between Moscow and Kiev. During those days the Bulgarian...
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,”...
