Section: Bulgaria
RSK MiG to End Bulgarian Aircraft Maintenance over Poland Overhaul
Russian aircraft corporation RSK MiG has warned it would stop abiding by its maintenance obligations with regard to the MiG-29 jets in service with the Bulgarian Air Force. In a letter from RSK, which the Russian Embassy in Sofia forwarded to Focus News Agency, the company cites the move to send the aircraft engines to Poland, under an agreement...
Grigor Dimitrov starts with success in Basel
Bulgaria’s top tennis player Grigor Dimitrov qualified for the second round of the indoors tennis tournament in Basel by winning against Sergei Stahovski, Ukraine by 6:3, 6:4. In this way in 3 matches the two have played in professional tennis, Dimitrov strikes his second success. To obtain a place in the quarterfinals the Bulgarian will...
Bulgaria’s Grigor Dimitrov to Seek First Victory Against Nadal in Basel
Bulgaria’s top ranking male tennis player, Grigor Dimitrov, will be seeking to record his first victory against Rafael Nadal at the Swiss Indoors tournament, which is taking place in Basel. In the first round played on Tuesday, Dimitrov defeated the Ukrainian Sergiy Stakhovsky with 6:3, 6:4, proceeding to the second round, which will take...
Ukraine Holds Local Elections Except for Separatist Regions
Local elections are being held on Sunday in most of the country except the separatist regions in the east, with Ukrainians electing members of local councils, chairmen of rural councils and city and town mayors. A law adopted on July 14 stipulated that local elections shall not be held in the territory of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea, the...
Ukraine Holds Local Elections Except in Separatist Regions
Local elections are being held on Sunday in most of the country except the separatist regions in the east, with Ukrainians electing members of local councils, chairmen of rural councils and city and town mayors. A law adopted on July 14 stipulated that local elections shall not be held in the territory of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea, the...
Wine makers insist on receiving EU financing
Since the beginning of the Russian embargo, the export of Bulgarian wine to Russia has dwindled by 62% and the Bulgarian alcoholic beverage has been replaced with wine produced in Crimea and Abkhazia, Chairman of the National Wine and Vine Chamber Radoslav Radev said. Against the backdrop of this negative trend the Bulgarian wine producers are...
Mostly Russians, Turkish and Ukrainians granted right of Bulgarian residence in 2014
During the past year Bulgaria granted the right of permanent residence to a total of 8795 nationals of non-EU countries. This has been announced by the European Commission, quoting data by Eurostat. Most often, the right of permanent residence in Bulgaria was given to Russians (3307), Turkish (2347), and Ukrainians (598 persons). One third of the...
Go2BalkansForum – joint efforts for a successful tourism product
Bulgaria is often regarded as a “terra incognita” in Europe. At present, itseems to have a less attractive tourist image than during socialism. There is no advertising of the Bulgarian tourism product. Since Bulgaria’s EU accession in 2007 until today the share of European tourists decreasesevery year. Noteverybody abroad is...
Bulgarian Tour Operators Experience Hardest Year in Past Decade
The chairperson of the Association of Bulgarian tour operators and travel agents, Bayko Baykov, said on Monday that Bulgarian tourism is experiencing its hardest year in the past decade. According to Kalin Draganov, a member of the association, cultural tourism in the country was mainly developed by the municipalities. In his words,...
2015 – toughest for Bulgarian tourism as of 10 years
The Association of Bulgarian Tour Operators and Tourist Agents declared that 2015 has been so far the heaviest year for Bulgarian tourism as of a decade. There was a 9 percent drop over the first 8 months of the year due to the decreased number of Russian and Ukrainian tourists. At the same time the European markets didn’t see any...
