Section: Bulgaria
Bulgaria Can Negotiate With Russia, EU on Turkish Stream Pipeline
Bulgaria can negotiate with Russia and the EU for the laying of one of the pipelines of Turkish Stream through its territory, said Russian expert Konstantin Simonov, head of the Fund for National and Energy Security. According to Simonov, the situation at present resembles the crisis in the winter of 2009 when Bulgaria stopped receiving gas from...
Bulgaria can look for deal with Russia over Turkish Stream pipeline: Konstantin Simonov
Bulgaria could possibly look for a deal with Russia over the passage of one of the Turkish Stream pipes through its territory, Russian expert Konstantin Simonov argued in an interview for the Bulgarian National Radio. He is head of the National Energy Security Fund in Russia. Simonov compared the current situation to the winter of 2009 when...
Bulgaria’s new President will have zero freedom to take stands independently from NATO and EU: Ilian Vassilev
The fifth President of Bulgaria has entered the Presidency building with the image of a pro-Russian politician due to his speeches in the election campaign and interviews for foreign media that the EU should lift sanctions against Russia and that Crimea is actually part of Russia, because the Russian national flag is hoisted there. Although...
Rumen Radev assumes office as president, a “hot” spring in the offing
Continuity and change. These were the guiding principles the new President of Bulgaria Rumen Radev formulated in his brief speech as he assumed office at a ceremony in Sofia yesterday. Former president Rosen Plevneliev wished success to his successor, stating that throughout the five years of his term of office he had worked solely for the...
Russia Warns of ‘Maidan’ over Bulgarian President’s Inauguration, MPs Pick Up
A state-funded think tank in Russia has alleged that Maidan-style protests will be staged “in the center of Sofia” before Bulgarian President-elect Rumen Radev takes up the office on Sunday. In a piece published on the day Radev was sworn in, Igor Pshenichnikov, the Russian Institute for Strategic Studies’ advisor to the...
Bulgaria May Lose EU Presidency If It Stirs Divisions, President Warns
Outgoing Bulgarian President Rosen Plevneliev has argued Bulgaria may be stripped of its Council of the European Union presidency if it works toward division within the EU. In his farewell press conference alongside Vice President Margarita Popova, he has said such a move is one of the “big risks” facing the country in the months to come, a step...
Marine Le Pen To Recognise Crimea As Part of Russia If Elected President
The leader of the French far right-wing party National Front (FN) Marine Le Pen stated to the Russian newspaper Izvestiya that she will recognise the Crimea as part of Russia if elected president of France. Three months before the presidential elections in the country, the candidate of the far right has strong chances of reaching the second round...
Logo of Bulgaria’s EU Presidency Selected
Outgoing Deputy Prime Minister Meglena Kuneva presented the logo of the Bulgarian Presidency of the Council of the European Union in 2018. The author of the logo is Todor Angeliev. The logo includes three elements – the Cyrillic alphabet, the traditional Bulgarian embroidery and the Bulgarian flag. Not only Bulgarian authors but foreign ones as...
Logo of Bulgarian presidency of Council of EU officially presented
Head of the National Centre for Preparation of the Bulgarian Presidency of the Council of the EU, Ambassador Lyubomir Ivanov, presented at an official ceremony in Sofia the official Bulgarian logo for the Presidency that is to take place in 2018. The author of the logo is Todor Angeliev and he was chosen among more than 180 artists who submitted...
Serbia ‘Plans to Annex Northern Kosovo’ – Thaci
Kosovo President Hashim Thaci has accused Serbia of seeking to annex the a slice of the northern part of his country. Thaci has described the move by Serbian authorities to send – and then halt – a train from Belgrade that was to enter Kosovo as a “provocation”. It was part of the attempt to annex Kosovo’s north...
