Section: Bulgaria
Bulgaria’s Tourism Reports 9% Growth for 2014/2015 Winter Season
Bulgaria’s Tourism Minister Nikolina Angelkova boasted about a successful 2014/2015 winter season (December-February), stressing that the period had brought growth of over 9%, with the number of tourists increasing by nearly 80 000. In an interview for Trud daily, Angelkova made clear that tourism revenues had increased by BGN 34 M during...
Ukraine, Russia Agree to Urge Weapons Withdrawal in Donbass
Moscow and Kiev representatives have agreed to demand the continued withdrawal of weapons in Eastern Ukraine in a new multilateral meeting aimed at winding down tensions.During talks in Berlin attended by Foreign Ministers of Russia, Ukraine, France and Germany, the parties struck a deal to include in their demands mortars, tanks and heavy...
Italy’s Under Secretary for Foreign Affairs Benedetto Della Vedova visits Bulgaria
The Under Secretary for Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation of Italy, Benedetto Della Vedova is paying a visit to Sofia today. The programme of the visit envisages consultations with his Bulgarian counterpart, Deputy Foreign Minister Rumen Alexandrov. The two are to discuss illegal immigration; Bulgaria’s joining the Schengen...
Russia Likely to End Gas Transit via Ukraine in 2019
It is very likely for Russia to renounce transportation of gas through the network of Ukraine, Russian Economy Minister Alexander Novak has said. On Sunday Novak was quoted by news agency RIA as saying that Moscow would put all its effort in building the infrastructure of the so-called “Turkish Stream” gas project that is to pump gas...
Turkish Stream, South Stream Costs Comparable, Energy Official Says
The cost of the future Turkish Stream gas pipeline project is comparable to the cost of the abandoned South Stream project, according to Gurkan Kumbaroglu, President-Elect of the International Association for Energy Economics (IAEE). “We have not yet finished all the calculations. I think the cost is comparable to the cost of the South...
Germany Appeals to Moscow, Kiev Ahead of Four-Way Meeting
Ahead of a key meeting in Berlin, Germany has called upon Russia and Ukraine to move forward with the terms of the Minsk ceasefire accord. “We expect both Moscow and Kyiv to seize the central issue of the implementation of the next phase of Minsk,” Deutsche Welle quoted Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier as saying in an interview in...
Foreign Nationals Leave Strife-Hit Yemen on Board Russian Plane
About 150 nationals of Russia and other countries including Bulgaria have left war-torn Yemen on board a second Russian plane on Sunday, TASS reported. The Il-62 passenger aircraft landed at Chkalovskiy Airport near Moscow early on Sunday. This was after the second evacuation flight of a Russian plane from Yemen over the past 24 hours and the...
Russian Navy Ship Evacuates 308 People from Yemen
Russian Navy vessel Priazovye has helped to evacuate 308 people, including a Bulgarian national, from Yemen. According to reports of Russia’s Defense Ministry, as cited by TASS, citizens from 19 countries were rescued, including 45 Russians, 18 US citizens, 5 people from the UK, 1 Bulgarian, 6 Estonians, 14 Ukrainians, 9 citizens of...
Bulgarian Parliament Passes Bill on NATO Communications Unit
Bulgarian National Assembly ratified the agreement for the deployment of a NATO switchboard battalion in Bulgaria. The communication-information system or the so-called NATO module will be constructed near Bulgaria’s Gorna Malina. The deployment of a communication battalion of NATO in Bulgaria has been supported by 120 MPs in Parliament...
Tsipras Sought No Financial Aid from Moscow, Putin Says
Greece’s Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras hasn’t asked for financial aid from Russia during talks in Moscow, Russia’s President Vladimir Putin said on Wednesday. Putin said at a joint news conference with Tsipras that they had only discussed various economic cooperation projects, including new projects in the energy sector such as...
