Section: Radio Bulgaria (Bulgaria)
Bulgaria has not received information about increased NATO presence in Black Sea
We have not received any information that the USA intends to sail more warships into the Black Sea in connection with the situation in Ukraine, Bulgaria’s Deputy Premier and Minister of Defense Krasimir Karakachanov announced. Warships of Non-Black Sea powers may not remain in the Black Sea longer than 21 days, the Montreux Convention...
Jens Stoltenberg: NATO and EU have common interest in Balkan stability
NATO and the EU have a common interest in stability in the Balkans, NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg said after the two-day meeting of Foreign Ministers of member states of the Alliance. He announced that Macedonia’s accession negotiations are now under way. NATO also expects to receive Bosnia and Herzegovina’s first plan for...
Deputy Prime Minister Ekaterina Zaharieva participates in meeting of NATO Ministers of Foreign Affairs
Challenges to regional security, including in the Black Sea and the Sea of Azov, are one of the topics that NATO ministers will be discussing today and tomorrow in Brussels. The topic will be discussed in a joint session with Georgia and Ukraine. Issues of international security, transatlantic relationships, and Member States’ commitments...
December 1 – World AIDS Day
According to the European Center for Disease Prevention and Control and the World Health Organization, over two million people are infected with HIV in Europe. This means that every 17 seconds a person is infected with HIV or an average of 5,000 new infections per day. More than 150,000 new cases of HIV infection were reported in Europe in 2017,...
President Radev: We have no interest in militarization of Black Sea
The risk of escalation of the conflict between Russia and Ukraine is real, but Europe should by no means be a hostage to Ukrainian domestic politics and ambitions. Therefore, it is important to understand that we have no interest in the militarization of the Black Sea, which would directly affect Bulgaria and I hope this conflict would end as...
Russia-Ukraine tension is an “enormous threat” to Bulgaria: Boyko Borissov
Prime Minister Boyko Borissov described the Russia-Ukraine tension as an “enormous threat” to Bulgaria. In a lecture at the Royal Diplomatic Academy of Morocco in Rabat, he compared the conflict in the Black Sea with the wars in the former Yugoslavia. In Boyko Borissov’s words, as has happened in the Balkans many times, one matchstick can...
Bessarabian Bulgarian among Ukrainian sailors detained by Russia
Vladimir Varimez, a Bessarabian Bulgarian, is among the 24 Ukrainian sailors detained by Russia off the Crimean coast, Viktor Genchev, mayor of Banovka, Ukraine, the village 26-year old Varimez comes from, has confirmed for the Bulgarian National Radio. The Bulgarian Foreign Ministry confirmed that a Ukrainian citizen of Bulgarian origin, serving...
Square in honor of Dimitar Peshev unveiled in Kiev
In Kiev Prime Ministers of Bulgaria and Ukraine Boyko Borissov and Volodymyr Groosman opened a square and unveiled a memorial in honour of Bulgarian politician Dimitar Peshev, who contributed to the rescue of Bulgarian Jews during the Second World War. PM Borissov thanked for the implementation of the initiative, and Groosman pointed out that the...
Before Moscow PM Borissov to visit Zagreb, Kiev
Prime Minister Boyko Borissov will visit Croatia and Ukraine on May 26 and 27, the government’s press service has said. Next week he is scheduled to visit Moscow. The date of this visit has not been officially announced in Sofia, but according to Russian sources it is planned for 30 May. On Saturday in Zagreb, Prime Minister Borissov will...
Cyrillic – graffiti alphabet from A to Z
An international graffiti exhibition dedicated to the Cyrillic alphabet opened on May 24, the Day of Bulgarian Education, Culture and Slavonic Scripture, in Gifted Sofia Gallery. The event is organized for the second consecutive year and curator is famous graffiti artist from Varna, Aleksi Ivanov, who is the man behind the idea for such an...
