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Foreign Ministry: No Injured Bulgarians in St. Petersburg Blast
April 3 (BTA) - The Bulgarian Foreign Ministry said on Monday it has not received information about injured Bulgarians in the metro explosions in St. Petersburg. At least 10 people were killed in explosions in two train carriages at metro stations in St. Petersburg on Monday, ...
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Boyko Borissov to Head Negotiating Team for Coalition Talks
April 3 (BTA) - GERB leader Boyko Borissov will head the negotiating team for the talks on a future coalition government, GERB's Liliyana Pavlova told reporters here Monday. The negotiating team will also include Tsvetan Tsvetanov, Tomislav Donchev, Vladislav Goranov and Delyan ...
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Deniza Slateva: "Bulgaria's EU Presidency Gives a Chance of National Consensus"
April 3 (BTA) - Deputy Prime Minister Deniza Slateva said Bulgaria stint at the Presidency of the EU Council is seen as a chance of achieving a national consensus, concord and continuity on European and foreign policy topics strategically important to Bulgaria.
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Former Executive Director of Irrigation Systems EAD Charged with Malfeasance in Office
April 3 (BTA) - The Prosecuting Magistracy charged former executive director of Irrigation Systems EAD Dimiter Ivanov with inflicting 2,986,355 leva detriment on the state-owned company resulting from the conclusion of four disadvantageous contracts for legal services between Nov...
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Russian Tanker Catches on Fire in Varna Ship Yard, No One Injured
April 3 (BTA) - A tanker sailing under a Russian flag has caught on fire in a ship repair yard here at 10:25 am Monday morning. The causes of the incident are still to be determined. The fire poses no environmental risk and no one was injured, said the Executive Director of the ...
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Health Minister Charged with Intimidation
April 3 (BTA) - Caretaker Health Minister Ilko Semerdjiev has been charged with threatening dismissal to the director of the Bulgarian Drug Agency with the Health Ministry unless she appointed a person named by the Minister as deputy director, the prosecution service said.
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Trade Union Wants New Cabinet Soon
April 3 (BTA) - The Confederation of Independent Trade Unions in Bulgaria (CITUB) wants to see a stable government formed soon so as to complete the key reforms in the judiciary, health care and other sectors.
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Israeli Prime Minister Congratulates Boyko Borissov on Election Victory
April 2 (BTA) - In a telephone conversation, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu congratulated Bulgaria's GERB leader Boyko Borissov for the party's victory in the recent early parliamentary elections, GERB reported on Sunday.
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Agrarian Union Rejects Leadership's Attempt to Resign
April 2 (BTA) - Bulgarian Agrarian National Union (BANU) Chairman and former defence minister Nikolay Nenchev and the entire party leadership tendered their resignations on Sunday but the BANU Governing Council turned them down. The party adopted a declaration calling on the demo...
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Food Prices Decrease over Past Week
April 2 (BTA) - In the week until March 31, the food wholesale market index fell by 0.82 per cent to 1.458 points, the State Commission on Commodity Exchanges and Wholesale Markets reported.
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Commission Announces 12 More Persons Elected to National Assembly
April 2 (BTA) - The Central Election Commission has announced the names of 12 more persons who are becoming members of the 44th National Assembly after the snap elections on March 26. The announcement came after 12 members elected in two constituencies each finally chose the cons...
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Bikers Open 2017 Riding Season with Call for Road Tolerance
April 1 (BTA) - Nearly 5,000 bikers gathered Saturday at the Alexander Nevsky square in the heart of Sofia to open the 2017 riding season and the ensuing procession held up the traffic in many places in the city, Nova TV reported.
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National Book Centre Presents Second Catalogue of Children's Books from Bulgaria
April 1 (BTA) - The National Book Centre with the National Palace of Culture presented its second catalogue "Children's Books from Bulgaria: Contemporary Writers and Artists". The catalogue is published to aid the development of the Bulgarian fiction and book illustrations for ch...
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Visual Artist Ulay Makes First Appearance in Bulgaria with Exibition "I Other"
April 1 (BTA) - Visual artist Frank Uwe Laysiepen, more popular as Ulay, makes his first appearance in Bulgaria with his "I Other Exhibtion" which opens on April 27 as part of the Masters of Photography platform in the Vivacom Art Hall in downtown Sofia, the organizers of the eve...
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Lv 832 Mln Budget Surplus Reported for February 2017
April 1 (BTA) - Based on the monthly reports of first-level spending units, the Consolidated Fiscal Programme (CFP) on a cash basis as at end-February showed a surplus of 831.8 million leva (0.9 per cent of the projected GDP), the Finance Ministry said.
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Government Revokes Refugee Integration Ordinance
March 31 (BTA) - The caretaker government held an extraordinary meeting on Friday to revoke an ordinance by the previous government on integration of refugees. Announcing their decision, Labour and Social Policy Minister Galab Donev and Interior Minister Plamen Uzunov said tha...
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Socialist Party Leadership Gives Vote of Confidence to Its Chairperson
March 31 (BTA) - In an unanymous vote, the National Council of the Bulgarian Socialist Party (BSP), vowed its confidence in its leader Kornelia Ninova Friday. The party press office said that the confidence vote was 118-0 with no abstentions, "to continue the policy for changes i...
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Natural Gas Price Hiked by Almost 30 Per Cent, Effective April 1
March 31 (BTA) - Meeting behind closed doors on Friday, Bulgaria's Energy and Water Regulatory Commission (EWRC) endorsed a natural gas price for end suppliers and for customers connected to the gas transmission network at 363.26 leva/1,000 cu m or 39.04 leva/MWh, exclusive of ex...
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PES President Stanishev: No Pressure from Brussels for Coalition between Bulgarian Socialist Party, GERB
March 31 (BTA) - There is no pressure from Brussels for a coalition between the Bulgarian Socialist Party (BSP) and GERB, President of the Party of the European Socialists (PES) and former BSP leader and prime minister Sergei Stanishev said Friday, talking to reporters before the...
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Decision to Scrap Special Statute of Museum Town Triggers Nation-wide Outcry, Gets Rejected by Regional Governor
March 31 (BTA) - Having triggered a nation-wide outcry in the two days after it was made public, a decision by the municipal council in the museum town of Koprivshtitsa, central Bulgaria, to scrap the town's statute as an architectural and historical reserve was sent back for rec...
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