Section: Bulgaria
New Greek Govt Disagrees with EU Call for Further Sanctions on Russia
Greece’s new government on Tuesday distanced itself from an EU call to consider expansion of the bloc’s sanctions against Russia over the Ukraine crisis. The move could be setting the stage for possible friction with Greece’s partners in the bloc over foreign policy issues in addition to disagreements over economic and financial...
Gazprom Plans to Start Pumping Gas to Turkey via New Pipeline in Dec 2016
Russia’s Gazprom said on Tuesday a planned gas pipeline to Turkey will become operational by the end of next year. “We agreed to plan our work in such a way that would allow us to sign an Intergovernmental Agreement on the gas pipeline in the second quarter this year, therefore the first gas would come to Turkey in December 2016,” Gazprom...
Bulgaria, Romania Discuss Elements of NATO’s Readiness Action Plan
Bulgaria’s Defence Minister Nikolay Nenchev and his Romanian counterpart Mircea Dusa on Tuesday discussed the creation of command and control elements that would be deployed in the two countries as part of NATO’s Readiness Action Plan. The two defence ministers also agreed upon the need to exchange Bulgarian and Romanian military...
Bulgaria, Romania Discuss Details of NATO’s Readiness Action Plan
Bulgaria’s Defence Minister Nikolay Nenchev and his Romanian counterpart Mircea Dusa on Tuesday discussed the creation of command and control elements that would be deployed in the two countries as part of NATO’s Readiness Action Plan. The two defence ministers also agreed upon the need to exchange Bulgarian and Romanian military...
World Commemorates Victims of Holocaust, Liberation of Auschwitz
State representatives from all around the world gather in Poland on Tuesday to mark the 70th anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration and extermination camp. January 27, the day in which the Red Army liberated the camp in 1945, was declared as an International Day of Commemoration in Memory of the Victims of the...
Ukraine Declares State of Emergency in Donbass
Ukrainian Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk announced on Monday that the government had decided to declare a state of emergency in the eastern regions of Donetsk and Luhansk. Yatsenyuk added that the overall alert level across the country was heightened in order to coordinate the activities of the authorities and provide security for the citizens....
Ukraine Declares State of Emergency in Donbas
Ukrainian Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk announced on Monday that the government decided to declare a state of emergency in the eastern regions of Donetsk and Luhansk. Yatsenyuk added that the overall alert level across the country was heightened in order to coordinate the activities of the authorities and provide security for the citizens....
S&P Downgrades Russia’s Credit Rating to `Junk`
The US rating agency Standard & Poor’s (S&P) has downgraded Russia’s credit rating to junk, which is below investment grade. Russia’s credit rating has been lowered to such a level for the first time in a decade, the BBC reports. Having a rating of BB+, Russia is on par with Bulgaria and Indonesia, which makes it...
NATO Urges Russia to Stop Supporting Separatists in Eastern Ukraine
Following the Mariupol attack on Saturday, an extraordinary ambassadorial meeting of the NATO-Ukraine Commission took place in Brussels on Monday. ”In recent weeks, Russia has supplied hundreds of pieces of advanced equipment, including rocket systems, heavy artillery, tanks, armored vehicles and electronic warfare systems,”...
Bulgaria Launches EU-funded Advertising Campaign to Boost Domestic Tourism
Bulgaria’s Ministry of Tourism has launched a campaign to advertise 50 little-known tourist sites around the country. The financing for the campaign is provided under a project worth BGN 1.9 M, VAT excluded, under the EU operational program “Regional Development”. The project aimed at promoting domestic tourism involves TV spots...
