Section: Bulgaria
The US Will Cut its Financial Contribution to NATO’s Budget
US President Donald Trump’s government plans to cut its financial contribution to NATO’s budget, CNN reported. According to media sources in the Pentagon and NATO, about 22 percent of the Alliance’s budget is currently generated by funds provided from the US. The Trump government plans to reduce that amount to 16 percent. For...
Most Americans Believe Donald Trump Should Be Removed from Office
According to a new poll, 70% of Americans believe President Donald Trump made a mistake by putting pressure on the Ukrainian leader to investigate his political opponents, and more than half of those polled believe he should be removed from office. An ABC News/Ipsos poll published yesterday in Politico found that 51 percent of those surveyed...
Elisaveta Belobradova about the magnetism of Bessarabia and the Bulgarians living there
Bessarabia, a region named after the Wallachian voevod dynasty Basarab, was part of the Bulgarian state up until the end of the 10th century. After that the territory was conquered by Kipchaks, Pechenegs and Mongols, as well as by Basarabs in the 14th century. These lands remained part of the Ottoman Empire until 1812, when, after one of the...
Putin Hopes Trump Will Visit Moscow on May 9th
Russian President Vladimir Putin has expressed hope that his US counterpart, Donald Trump, will visit Moscow next year for the May 9 Victory Day celebrations and said Russia is ready for talks with the US, BTA reported. “The presence of the leader of a country which made a major contribution to the fight against Nazism at a ceremony marking the...
Petkova: There Will Be no Shortage of Natural Gas in Bulgaria
There will be no shortage of natural gas in Bulgaria if Russia ceases gas supplies to Ukraine from January 1. Energy Minister Temenuzhka Petkova said in Radnevo. According to Temenuzhka Petkova, all measures have been taken and no shortage is expected in our country. The Energy Minister participated in the handover ceremony for the operation of...
Belarus Must Abolish the Death Penalty in order to Become a Member of the European Council
The use of the death penalty in Belarus does not allow the country to be a member of the European Council. This was stated yesterday by Austrian President Alexander Van der Bellen after a meeting in Vienna with Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko, TASS reported. He added that the implementation of the extreme criminal measure in Belarus is...
Soon Every Third Germany Resident Will Be a Foreigner
As many Bulgarians and Romanians immigrate to Germany, they will not be able to satisfy the huge need for labor in the country. It urgently needs new migrants, Deutsche Welle writes. By 2040, every third German resident will be a migrant or foreign-born person, according to a forecast by the The Institute for Employment Research (IAB). In major...
Mikhailo Parashchuk from Ukraine, the man who crafted the ornaments on some of Bulgaria’s most emblematic buildings
Looking up at the stately public buildings from the first half of the 20th century, what strikes onlookers most are the sculptural and architectural elements that lend the final touches to the atmosphere these buildings create. But whose are the ornaments on the facades of the buildings of the National Library, Sofia University, the National...
Ukraine Will Join NATO
Ukraine will join NATO, Secretary General of the North Atlantic Alliance Jens Stoltenberg said in an interview on 1 + 1, BGNES reported.. “All allies agreed that Ukraine would become a NATO member. Montenegro joined NATO only two years ago, Northern Macedonia will become a NATO member in a few months, and we saw this before – after...
Kiev Has Asked for an Explanation for Macron’s Scandalous Statement about Ukrainian and Bulgarian “Underground Networks”
The Ukrainian Ministry of Foreign Affairs has called on the French ambassador to explain the words of French President Emmanuel Macron on “Ukrainian gangs”, the ministry’s spokeswoman said. In the interview with the magazine Valeurs Actuelles, Macron explained that he favored “quota-based migration” to an influx of...
