Section: Bulgaria
Polish President Gives Green Light to Creating Joint Military Force with Lithuania, Ukraine
Polish President Bronislaw Komorowski has given his formal approval for the creation of a joint military brigade with Lithuania and Ukraine, TASS reported. The resolution signed by Komorowski on Monday will take effect two weeks after it is published, the Polish leader’s office has confirmed, according to the Russian news agency. The joint...
Bulgarian Student ‘Opens Fire, Wounds 4’ in Odessa
A brawl involving drunken students in the Ukrainian city of Odessa has ended in four people being injured after a Bulgarian opened fire on his colleagues, a Ukrainian news website reports.According to 368.media, a Russian-language outlet, a scandal broke between two groups of students at the Odessa I.I. Melchikov National University.Reportedly,...
Daily webcast
Welcome to Radio Bulgaria’s daily webcast Heartbeat Bulgaria! On the show this Thursday: · RB organizes a roundtable in Sofia on the Ukrainian issues, two experts talk about the Minsk Agreement · Next, we tell you about magnificent artist Iassen Ghiuselev, an illustrator of classics · Then, the creation of a home with the usage of quality...
Implementation of Minsk agreements – best chance of resolving conflict in Ukraine
Full implementation of the Minsk deal is the best chance of reaching a political resolution of the conflict in Donbas, said European Council President Donald Tusk adding that the EU continues to strictly monitor the implementation of the agreement signed in February. Donald Tusk made this statement at an EU-Ukraine summit in Kiev this week, the...
Bulgaria ex-FinMin Djankov Quitting VTB Supervision
Simeon Djankov, who last year joined Russian VTB bank’s Supervisory Council, is now stepping down, Russian media reports suggest. The report is run by Russian daily Kommersant [RU], in an article that gives a summary of recent moves by foreign nationals to quit high-profile positions at Russian bank as the country’s financial system...
Bulgaria Improves Ranking in Freedom House Report on Press Freedom
Press freedom in Bulgaria has reached its highest level over the past ten years. This has been the conclusion drawn following the Freedom House Press Freedom report published Wednesday. Meanwhile, merely 14% of the world population has been reported to live in countries with truly active and free press, 42% of states across the world enjoy...
Bulgaria Improves Ranking in Freedom House Press Freedom Report
Press freedom in Bulgaria has reached its highest level over the past ten years. This has been the conclusion drawn following the Freedom House Press Freedom report published Wednesday. Meanwhile, merely 14% of the world population has been reported to live in countries with truly active and free press, 42% of states across the world enjoy...
Bulgaria on the way of migration flow from Africa and Asia
“April turned out to be the hardest month for those trying to cross the Mediterranean Sea from Africa to Europe with regard to the huge death toll and Bulgaria stands on the way of this refugee flow,” said Bruce Burton, Deputy Chief of Mission at the United States Embassy in Bulgaria. He is taking part in a seminar “Migration and Refugees: Issues...
Fire Sets Ablaze Forest Near Chernobyl Nuclear Plant
A big forest fire has started around the zone around the former Chernobyl nuclear power plant. A high state of emergency has been issued in Ukraine on account of the incident as reported by RT daily. In the words of Ukraine’s Interior Minister Arsen Avakov, the fire is moving towards the nuclear power plant. He further announced that the...
Rosen Plevneliev Holds Speech at Third Global Forum, Urges for Peaceful Conflict Resolution
It is not a sustainable political decision for us to be closing our eyes for the conflicts that have arisen due to the interests of the great powers, the spheres of influence and their peripheries. The statement was made by Bulgarian President Rosen Plevneliev during his speech at the Third Global Forum taking place in the capital of Azerbaijan,...
