Section: Radio Bulgaria (Bulgaria)
Come to Know Bulgaria and its 100 National Tourist Sites
Over 6 million tourists have joined till now the Come to Know Bulgaria – 100 National Tourist Sites National Movement which will mark its 50th jubilee in 2016. It is organized by the Bulgarian Tourist Union with no analogue across the globe. The idea is the whole state to be toured around in an organized manner and with the purpose of visiting...
Secrets of ancient church of St. Nikolay Mirlikiiski
We reach the small church of St. Nikolay Mirlikiiski near the Rila Hotel downtown Sofia looking for priest Nikolay Neshkov. The priest used to serve in the other church of St. Nikolay Mirlikiiski downtown Sofia, known as the Russian church. The Orthodox priests, great choir and atmosphere had turned the Russian church into an attractive place for...
Bulgaria to remain factor of stability in dynamic geostrategic environment: minister
In an interview for the Bulgarian Telegraph Agency about the challenges of Bulgaria’s foreign policy in 2016, Bulgaria’s Minister of Foreign Affairs Daniel Mitov said that Sofia would aim at assisting the countries in solving the problems that remained unsolved in 2015 such as the refugee and immigrant flow from the Middle East and...
Natural gas woes – obscurity during winter
On New Year’s Eve Bulgaria narrowly missed a rather unpleasant “déjà vu.” The case between Overgas and Gazprom reminded us of the frosty days at the beginning of January 2009, when deliveries of Russian gas through Ukraine stopped completely because of financial disputes between Moscow and Kiev. During those days the Bulgarian...
Who’s right and who’s wrong: South Stream revisited
Yesterday’s exchange between Russia’s president and Bulgaria’s prime minister reopened the subject of the gas pipeline that never was. The international project with Russia and Italy in the leading roles was supposed to deliver Russian gas to Central and Western Europe using a pipeline running along the Black Sea bed via...
WW2 – the war we could not have avoided
Bulgaria and World War Two. Could we avoid the largest military conflict so far? Taking this question is Associate Professor Dr. Sonya Penkova, director of the National Museum of Military History. The occasion is the large-scale exhibition, named The War We Couldn’t Avoid. It is devoted to the 70th anniversary of the global conflict’s...
Bulgarian Stream to replace South Stream?
Deputy Prime Minister Tomislav Donchev announced in parliament recently that Bulgaria was conducting negotiations with the European Commission on a possible construction, to the territory of the country, of a scaled-down version of the project for the delivery of Russian gas along South Stream via Bulgaria, a project that came to nothing....
Bulgaria and echo of NATO foreign ministers meeting in Brussels
At the beginning of the week at NATO Headquarters in Brussels a meeting of foreign ministers of member states of the alliance took place as a step in the preparation before the summit of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization in Warsaw in July 2016. Due to unprecedented challenges to international security, key decisions related to the further...
US military equipment arrives to Bulgaria
About 70 units of US military technical equipment will be transferred to Romania from Germany today, and later in December the equipment will be deployed in Bulgaria and Lithuania as well, said Pentagon spokesman Jeff Davis. The supplies will be put through within the frame of the programme for military partnership “Atlantic Resolve”. The...
Bulgaria backs Nord Stream gas pipeline expansion
Bulgarian Prime Minister Boyko Borissov has announced that the government supports Russia’s plans to expand its gas connection with Germany. Days ago Bulgaria was said to be one of the 10 countries that had expressed concerns that the “Nord Stream 2” project might harm the interests of the EU and could lead to destabilization of...
