Bulgaria News

An innovative prohibition sign is letting people know they are not allowed to have sex or walk around naked in the park of the Military Academy.

American energy company AES is intentionally protracting its project for building a solar power plant near Silistra , because it wants changes introduced in Bulgaria's law on renewable energy , said Minister of Energy Traicho Traikov .

Two Bulgarians vacationing on a yacht in northern Greece might be facing up to ten years jail time for setting a fire on the island of Diasporos, near the Xalkidiki penisula in northern Greece.

Acclaimed Bulgarian folk singer Stefka Sabotinova, known internationally as part of the Bulgarian State television female vocal choir,"The Mystery of the Bulgarian Voices" died on July 30 2010, Bulgarian media reported.

Even during the crisis, the market for luxury homes in Bulgaria remains stable. Pictured is an apartment at Cherkovna Cleves, a new development of luxury rental apartments by company Cleves EOOD.

Grafitti in downtown Sofia saying "Chalga robs power". Photo by BGNES. Bulgarian PM Boyko Borisov is creating a climate in which Bulgarians can only listen to chalga * and watch Big Brother , in a bid to make them vulgar but dumb and obedient, stated Bulgarian Socialist Party leader Sergey Stanishev .

After an 11.2% contraction in 2009, the Bulgarian mining industry is expected to grow by 1.4% in 2010 to be worth BGN 1.18 B . The New Materials market report from Business Monitor International : "Bulgaria Mining Report 2010," concluded that "positive indicators for the sector include an upward move in global prices for key commodities such as ...

Bulgaria's Communist-era security agency , the dreaded Committee for State Security, maintained a top secret unit in charge of kidnapping, discrediting and killing of Bulgarian migrs around the world long before the notorious assassination of writer Georgi Markov in London in 1978, it can be revealed.

The Gorna Arda hydropower project is expected to cost around EUR 500 M, which should be paid by the consortium.

Bulgaria's alleged top crime bosses, Krasimir and Nikolay Marinov aka The Marguin Brothers, received a non-guilty verdict after a 5-year long trial.

The Unit for Combating Organized Crime in Bulgaria has arrested a 37-year-old man, alleged organizer of a crime group, distributing movies, music, software and books on four websites.

The latest embezzlement allegations against Ahmed Dogan have been widely considered to be a litmus test for the government's willingness to fight high-level corruption.

Foreign investment has fallen dramatically in Bulgaria, where the housing market continues to struggle.

The London Philharmonic Orchestra will perform for the first time in their illustrious history in Sofia, Bulgaria on December 11 2010 in the National Palace of Culture , Sofia Music Enterprises said in a media release on July 29 2010.

St. John the Baptist. Detail from an icon at GraA anica monastery in Kosovo. Image by Pravoslavieto.com Parts of St.

In 2007 the residents of Plovdiv celebrated the 50th year since the opening of the Alesha Monument.

Bulgarian PM Borisov has urged fast construction of the Sofia-Nis HIghway. Photo by BGNES The highway connecting Bulgaria's capital Sofia with the Kalotina border crossing on the Serbia n border will be ready by 2015, announced Bozhidar Yotov , head of the Road Infrastructure Agency .

Author: Ivan Dikov Interview July 29, 2010, Thursday Kelly Degnan presented the basics of the future new strategic concept of NATO before journalists in Sofia.

The Bulgarian National Assembly was shaken this spring by an amendment that mysteriously appeared in the State Gazette in a version significally different from the one voted in plenary.

Sofia prosecutors dismissed accusations that former Energy Minister, Rumen Ovcharov, has deprived Bulgaria with billions by signing unfavorable contracts for Russian gas supply.