Section: Bulgaria
Trump to Sign Russia Sanctions, Moscow Retaliates
U.S. President Donald Trump will sign legislation that imposes sanctions on Russia, the White House said on Friday, after Moscow ordered the United States to cut hundreds of diplomatic staff in retaliation for the measures and said it was seizing two U.S. diplomatic properties, Reuters reports.Moscow’s decision, which had echoes of the Cold...
Number of Trips of Bulgarian Residents Abroad Increased by 9.5% in July Compared to June 2017
In June 2017, the number of the trips of Bulgarian residents abroad was 618.9 thousand or by 9.5% above the registered in June 2016. In comparison with the same month of the previous year an increase was observed in the total number of the trips of Bulgarians to: Italy – by 30.2%, Spain – by 19.4%, Austria – by 15.3%, Czech...
HBO Announces 5-Part Miniseries on Chornobyl Accident
HBO says production will begin next year on a miniseries about the Chornobyl nuclear disaster, according to TimesColonist. The five-part series will star Jared Harris as a Soviet scientist tapped by the Kremlin to investigate the accident. The series will dramatize the events of the 1986 Ukrainian nuclear catastrophe that resulted in widespread...
Mobile application helps for revealing of illegal logging and law violations in forests
Logging is a serious problem across Bulgarian forests which wouldn’t stop causing alarm among the society, as well as among environmentalists, foresters and state institutions. Data of environmental organizations says that some 1% of the forests are logged with annual revenues to the tune of around EUR 50 mln. Sometimes illegal logging...
EU Deported 42.600 Albanian Asylum Seekers in 2016
The number of Albanian asylum seekers who have been deported to their home country last year was 42.600. This is the figure that was recently published by the European Institute of Statistics (EUROSTAT) in relation to the process of the deportation of asylum seekers from its territory, says the Independent Balkan News Agency. “As in 2015,...
Talented Bulgarian children from all over the world receive awards in contests organized by State Agency for Bulgarians Abroad
Bulgarians from all over the world gathered in the concert hall of the Military Club in Sofia to receive their awards for participation in art, literature and singing competitions organized by the State Agency for Bulgarians Abroad (SABA). The image of Bulgaria, as it is in children’s thoughts and dreams, is seen in 523 drawings coming from...
Sand Sculptures Festival to Take Place in Burgas
For another year in Burgas will take place the Sand Sculptures Festival 2017. A total of 21 sand sculpture artists from Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, Poland, Ukraine, Turkey, Germany, Latvia, Portugal and Russia are displaying their works at the 10th Festival of Sand Figures – Sand Tales – which opened in Ezero (Lake) park in the sea capital of...
“Sand Tales, 2017” sand sculpture festival in Bourgas open until end-September
A total of 21 sand sculpture artists from Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, Poland, Ukraine, Turkey, Germany, Latvia, Portugal and Russia are displaying their works at the 10th Festival of Sand Figures – Sand Tales, 2017 – which opened in Ezero (Lake) park in Bourgas. This year’s festival is a retrospection of a kind, as it presents the...
Reading books in the summer: the choices of Bulgarians
Talking to Horizont Channel of the Bulgarian National Radio, Lyudmila Elenkova from the leading chain of bookstores Helikon privides us with some insights about the Bulgarians’ choice of reading stuff this summer: “Camino Island by John Grisham is leading the Helikon charts and will most probably top sales this summer”, she says. “Camino...
Lisbon Revealed as Host City of the 2018 Eurovision Song Contest
Portuguese Television and the European Broadcasting Union chose Lisbon to host Eurovision 2018, reported BGNES. The organizers announced that the semi-finals will be held on May 8 and 10 and the final of the competition on May 12. Portugal became the host country of the song contest, thanks to the victory of Salvador Sobral at Eurovision 2017 in...
