Section: Radio Bulgaria (Bulgaria)
Bulgaria’s tourism marks successful year. What about 2017?
Over 6 million foreign tourists have visited Bulgaria in 2016, which is 16% more as compared to 2015. Their total number, including Bulgarian tourists, exceeds 8 million. We have been making this statistics since 1991 and our data shows that 2016 has been the most successful year in terms of the number of people visiting that country,...
Katya Popova Laureate Days – emotional pinnacle in Pleven’s cultural life
This year the Katya Popova Laureate Days festival marked half a century since its founding. Created at the idea of great opera singer Katya Popova (born in Pleven), the festival takes place every two years. The forum presents young artists who received awards from prestigious international competitions. The thirtieth edition started with...
Diversity of foreign languages from across the world in Sofia
Sofia has been a city at the crossroads since ancient times and various languages and cultures meet here. Today the Bulgarian capital is even more colourful. It is enough to take a day for a walk in the historic centre of the city or in one of the largest shopping centres to hear a variety of languages. In the city streets one can often hear...
The Yellow Paving Stones 2016, a mosaic of diverse music traditions
The festival The Yellow Paving Stones will remain faithful to the spirit of jazz and world music. Just to remind you that the yellow paving stones are characteristic of Sofia’s central part and are the synonym of the city’s historical center. This year’s third edition of the event represents a dialogue in which diverse...
Earthquake scares Bulgaria’s Russe
An earthquake with epicenter in Romania scared people living in the city of Russe and across northeastern Bulgaria early in the morning. The epicenter was in the Eastern Carpathians and more specifically in the notorious seismic zone of Vrancea. The National Institute of Geophysics of Romania reported that the earthquake was of magnitude 5.6 on...
Bulgaria takes part in meeting on gas interconnectivity in Central and Southeast Europe
A meeting of the High Level Working Group on gas interconnectivity in Central and Southeast Europe took place in Budapest, Hungary. A major accent in the talks was the strengthening of regional cooperation and also the guaranteeing of security and diversification of gas supplies in the electricity sector too. A Declaration was signed for the...
Russian tourists return to Bulgaria
In preliminary estimates the number of Russian tourist in Bulgaria this year is set to reach 550 – 600,000 compared to 484,000 in 2015 и 681,000 in 2013. This has become known after a meeting in the Black Sea resort of Albena of business delegations from the Chamber of Industry and Commerce of the Russian Federation with Bulgarian companies....
Brussels supports Bulgarian gas hub, Moscow refuses to deliver gas through Black Sea
The gas routes will not go round Bulgaria, Premier Boyko Borissov said convincingly several days ago at the international investment round table about his favorite infrastructure project – the Balkan Gas Hub which is expected to be built on the Black Sea coast. The future of the project is not that clear, although it has been in the focus...
Orban hails whoever supports Bulgaria against migration
At a forum in Krintsa Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban praised the countries which assist Bulgaria for the protection of its borders from illegal migration in Southeastern Europe. With the prime ministers of Poland, the Czech Republic, Slovakia and Ukraine attending Orban demanded protection of EU borders from uncontrolled migration and once...
Bulgaria will not support abolition of EU sanctions against Russia
Bulgaria will not support abolition of the EU sanctions against Russia, Bulgaria’s Minister of Foreign Affairs Daniel Mitov said in an interview for Reuters. In Minister Mitov’s view, Russia violated the international law and order during the Ukrainian crisis, which can’t be left without consequences and sanctions are the only...
