Section: Bulgaria
Granting Bulgarian citizenship continues to grow less
From January to end of May Bulgarian passports have been issued to 2 953 foreign nationals, the Ministry of Justice informs. By tradition, the largest number of foreigners asking for Bulgarian identity papers is from Macedonia, Ukraine and Moldova. The tendency remains for a decline in the number of ban passports granted. In 2014 they were 5 429...
Bulgarian Exports to EU, Third Countries Increase in First Quarter of 2015
According to preliminary figures of the National Statistical Institute (NSI), which were released on Tuesday, Bulgarian exports to both the EU and third countries increased, but the country’s trade balance remained negative. Bulgarian exports to the EU in the first quarter of 2015 amounted to BGN 6.9 B, which represented an increase of 12 %...
Sand figure festival in Burgas under preparation
Preparation has started for the traditional festival of sand figures in Burgas. The making of the figures will take this year over 5 thousand tons of sand. Besides Bulgarian sculptors there will be guests from Russia, Ukraine, Poland, Portugal, Czech Republic, Holland, Slovakia, Australia and Turkey. The figures in this year’s edition of...
Bulgaria’s Foreign Minister to Address American Jewish Committee Global Forum
Bulgaria’s Foreign Minister Daniel Mitov will take part in the American Jewish Committee Global Forum on June 7-9 in Washington. At the invitation of AJC’s executive director, David Harris, Mitov will address the participants in the forum on June 8 during the AJC Global Forum’s World Leaders Plenary. Ukrainian Prime Minister...
Japan to Provide USD 1,5 B in Funding to Ukraine
Japanese Prime Minister Shinzō Abe has stated that the country will provide Ukraine with USD 1,5 B in order to ensure its financial stability, as reported by 112 Ukraine TV. The statement was made upon the Japanese Prime Minister met with Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko in Kiev Saturday. ”I am grateful to Japan for the presented credit...
OSCE Calls for Restraint in Ukraine Following Latest Surge in Violence
OSCE Chairperson-in-Office and Serbian Foreign Minister Ivica Dacic condemned on Thursday the latest surge in violence in Ukraine and called for restraint and abstention from the use of force. Dacic called on all parties to the conflict to return to the negotiating table, pursue a political solution through the Trilateral Contact Group and fully...
Key Tender for Units 5, 6 of Bulgaria’s Kozloduy NPP at Standstill
Units 5 and 6 of Bulgaria’s Kozloduy nuclear power plant need a replacement of the automated neutron flux control system in order to have their capacity increased. The measure is part of the life extension and modernization program for units 5 and 6 of the Kozloduy NPP, according to investor.bg. The replacement of the system was requested...
Slovakia Proposes to Russia Gas Pipeline Involving Bulgaria, Romania, Hungary
Slovakian Prime Minister Robert Fico announced presented Tuesday in Moscow a gas pipeline project involving Bulgaria, Romania, and Hungary. Fico presented to his Russian counterpart Dmitry Medvedev a new option for delivering Russian gas to Central and Eastern Europe, according to reports of the TASS news agency, The gas pipeline project, which...
Bulgaria is again within the scope of Russian sanctions against the West
Russia and the West continue to impose counter sanctions against each other. Several days ago, at the insistence of the European Union, Moscow sent to a series of European embassies a list containing the names of 89 people from 17 countries, whose access to the Russian Federation was banned due to their critical attitude towards Russia’s...
Yoav Chudnoff: a Tale of Bulgaria, US and a Talking Imperial Eagle
When John B Jackson, an American diplomat who by the mid-1900s had served in US diplomatic missions all over the world, learned in 1903 that Bulgaria would be added to Greece, Romania and Serbia in his portfolio, he was “dead set against it”. “He said, I don’t want to be here, take me away, it’s backward. As time...
