KU signee Sviatoslav Mykhailiuk joins Ukraine senior team for FIBA World Cup
Last month, Kansas signee Sviatoslav Mykhailiuk traveled to Bulgaria to compete for his native Ukraine in the U-18 Division B European Championships. He led his team to the finals, was selected MVP of the tournament and was expected to head to KU after ...
EU Allocates EUR 30 M for Bulgaria-Turkey Cooperation
The EU Commission will put aside a total of EUR 30 M for trans-border cooperation between Bulgaria and Turkey in 2014-2020, media sources say. Upon the request of Turkey, a certain part of the funding might be earmarked for the implementation of a four ...
Three bluetongue outbreaks confirmed in Bulgaria’s Razgrad
Razgrad. Three outbreaks of the bluetongue disease have been confirmed through laboratory analysis in Bulgaria’s district of Razgrad. They are in the villages of Medovene, Zadruga and Belovets,” said Dr Ibrahim Yahov, director of the District ...
Bulgaria’s Central Election Commission approves 18 parties, seven coalitions for October elections
Bulgaria’s Central Election Commission (CEC) has accepted the applications of seven coalitions and 18 parties to stand in the country’s early parliamentary elections on October 5 2014. The CEC turned down the applications of four parties, either ...
Russia annoyed by repeated colorful vandalism of Soviet monuments in Bulgaria
Russia annoyed by repeated colorful vandalism of Soviet monuments in Bulgaria Russia is asking Bulgaria to get its citizens to stop defacing Soviet monuments in Sofia. Jen Markham explains. Video provided by Buzz60 Check out this story on USATODAY.com ...
UPDATE 1-Bulgaria c.bank asks for Corpbank rescue plans by end-August
The central bank said it had sent letters to the two shareholders on Friday, adding their proposals should be in line with national and EU legislation. Bulgarian company Bromak, owned by businessman Tsvetan Vassilev, owns just over half of Corpbank.
Soviet War Monument in Bulgaria Gets a Splash of Color
Soviet communism remains very uncool in countries that formerly lived under it, which might explain why some very creative and patient graffiti artists have been repeatedly defacing a Soviet Army monument in Bulgaria. Ignat Ignev / Wikicommons The Russian ...
Bulgaria Archives - Robot 6 @ Comic Book Resources
In 2011, we reported on an epic act of vandalism: A graffiti artist in Sofia, Bulgaria, transformed a monument dedicated to the the Soviet Union’s 1944 “liberation” of the country into a superhero tableau. The eclectic group includes Superman ...
Bulgaria may extend Turkish border fence to bar Syrian, Iraqi refugees
The Balkan country is considering adding 130 km (80 miles) of barbed-wire fencing to an existing 33-km fence along the 240-km southeastern border which, the interior ministry's Chief Secretary Svetoslav Lazarov, said would save 2 million levs ($1.36 ...
Bulgaria grapples with Mideast refugee surge
Sofia, Bulgaria - Muslima Mohamad was six months into her pregnancy when her family was evicted from their rented apartment in a Sofia suburb. Since they couldn’t go anywhere else, the family of four wound up back in a Bulgarian refugee camp for the ...
