Section: Bulgaria
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)...
Easier access for foreign experts to Bulgarian labor market
Highly qualified foreigners will have easier access to jobs in the IT and outsourcing sectors in Bulgaria. This is what planned changes to the “blue card” regulation envisage. The changes have been submitted by Interior Minister Rumyana Bachvarova and Minister of Labor and Social Policy Ivailo Kalfin. If the project was approved, foreign...
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...
Economic crisis at an end, media crisis continues
An international meeting of journalists “Economic crisis at an end, media crisis continues. Why?” brought together journalists from the Balkan and the Black Sea region in Varna. At the event, organized by the Union of Bulgarian Journalists, the participants from Bulgaria, Serbia, Russia, Turkey and Ukraine discussed the problems and 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...
President Plevneliev: If they cannot overcome crises as a community, EU countries are threatened by instability
The European Union needs a new dose of confidence that will unite European countries in overcoming the worst series of crises in recent years, said in Erfurt President Rosen Plevneliev, who participated in the 11th meeting of Heads of State of Central and Eastern Europe. The Bulgarian President stressed that the European Union was undergoing only...
