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26 March 2012, Issue 3350
by Novinite.com
Bulgaria's Daily Newspaper since 2001
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New Minister Replaces Bulgarian Energy Holding Head
 Bulgarian Energy Holding head Yordan Georgiev has been dismissed and replaced by Mihail Andonov, announced the Bulgarian Ministry of Energy and Economy Sunday. read |
Bulgarian PM to Resign if MPs Don't Pass Illegal Assets Law
 Bulgarian PM Boyko Borisov said he will immediately file the resignation of his cabinet if the Bulgarian Parliament does not pass a controversial law on forfeiture of assets with unclarified origin. read |
Bulgarian Gorubso Miners Finally Get Overdue Wages
 Miners at the Bulgarian metal mines of Gorubso Madan are going to finally receive in just minutes their salaries overdue for many months. read |
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PM BORISOV: PUTIN WILL LEARN BULGARIA'S POSITION ON BELENE NPP MONDAY
Bulgarian PM Boyko Borisov will have a phone call Monday with Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin to finalize the fate of long-delayed joint energy project Belene NPP. This was revealed by Borisov during an interview with Bulgarian TV channel TV7 Sunday. The Bulgarian PM said that he is set to talk with Putin at 10.30 am EET. read more 
BULGARIAN NATIONALISTS RALLY AGAINST ROMANIA, DISSENTERS, GOVT A protest was carried out in front of the Romanian embassy in Sofia by Bulgarian nationalist Ataka party, who rallied against claims by Romania on a disputed Black Sea economic zone segment. Wednesday Romanian Foreign Minister Cristian Diaconescu renewed discussions about the delimitation of the economic zone in the Black Sea between the two neighbors, in a section that is suspected to be rich in oil and natural gas. read more WORKERS AT BULGARIAN LEAD PLANT THREATEN TO PROTEST OVER UNPAID WAGES Employees of the Lead and Zinc Complex in Kardzhali, the leading Bulgarian non-ferrous metals producer, have announced they will protest on Monday if they do not receive their salaries. The Lead and Zinc Complex is owned by Valentin Zahariev, now-former owner of the Gorubso Madan metal mines. Gorubso Madan miners finally received their overdue wages on Saturday after they had been staging protests for two weeks. read more CSA TERMINATE PRAGUE-SOFIA FLIGTHS Czech national air carrier CSA have terminated their flights between Prague and Sofia as of Sunday. CSA had announced this decision in February as part of part of plans for company restructuring. read more NEW MINISTER REPLACES BULGARIAN ENERGY HOLDING HEAD Bulgarian Energy Holding head Yordan Georgiev has been dismissed and replaced by Mihail Andonov, announced the Bulgarian Ministry of Energy and Economy Sunday. Georgiev was serving as executive director of the Bulgarian Energy Holding (BEH), an umbrella entity uniting state energy companies, since July 2010. read more BULGARIAN WATCHDOG CAPS GAS PRICE INCREASE AT 13% Bulgaria's natural gas price is to go up by 12.73% as of April 1, 2012, the State Commission for Energy and Water Regulation (DKEVR) has decided at a closed doors meeting late Friday evening. On April 1, 2011, 1 000 cubic meters of gas will cost BGN 699.1. read more BULGARIAN GORUBSO MINERS FINALLY GET OVERDUE WAGES Miners at the Bulgarian metal mines of Gorubso Madan are going to finally receive in just minutes their salaries overdue for many months. Speaking Saturday for the Darik radio weekly political talk show, Bulgaria's newly appointed Economy and Energy Minister, Delyan Dobrev, said the money would be wired by 1 pm the same day. read more 
BULGARIAN CO EYES LARGEST ROMANIAN COPPER MINE The Bulgarian company Ellatzite Med is striving to acquire the largest copper mine in Romania, Cupru Min SA Abrud. The information is reported by the Romanian Adevarul. read more ACTAVIS CEO VOWS NORMAL DRUG PRICES FOR BULGARIA Pharmaceutical company Actavis CEO Claudio Albrecht met Sunday Bulgarian PM Boyko Borisov to assure him the company will continue its committed approach to the Bulgarian market. In particular, Albrecht stated that his company will make a thorough analysis to find out any leeways to decrease the prices of drugs it produces. read more BULGARIAN PM TO RESIGN IF MPS DON'T PASS ILLEGAL ASSETS LAW Bulgarian PM Boyko Borisov said he will immediately file the resignation of his cabinet if the Bulgarian Parliament does not pass a controversial law on forfeiture of assets with unclarified origin. "If that law is not passed in the way we agreed with European Commission Presiden Jose Manuel Barroso, I will resign the very next day. My MPs know that," said Borisov in an interview for TV7. read more BIDDERS TO HEAD BULGARIAN SOCIALISTS CLASH ON ELECTION METHOD Bulgarian ex-President and contender for Socialist Party leader Georgi Parvanov has suggested that the party's next leader be elected on an open vote by all party members. The Bulgarian Socialist Party leaders have up to now been chosen by party delegates chosen by regional structures, who assemble on a party congress. read more BULGARIAN SOCIALISTS FLEX MUSCLES FOR CONGRESS The upcoming Bulgarian Socialist Party congress in May is important not only for the party, but for Bulgaria as a whole, said socialist leader Sergey Stanishev Sunday. Stanishev was speaking at a party forum dubbed "Active BSP and Democratic Change" devoted on strategies the party is developing to counter-act Bulgaria's center right GERB government of PM Boyko Borisov. read more BULGARIAN EX-PRESIDENT: SUCCESSOR YET TO CONFRONT CABINET Bulgarian President Rosen Plevneliev has striken an active figure during his first months in term, commented predecessor Georgi Parvanov. Parvanov handed down Bulgaria's presidency to Plevneliev January 22, after serving two 5-year's terms. read more SACKED BULGARIAN ECONMIN STRIKES BACK AT PM Bulgaria's recently dismissed Economy and Energy Minister, Traicho Traikov, says he is ready to face Prime Minister, Boyko Borisov, to discuss the latter's accusations towards him. Speaking Saturday, in an interview for Mediapool, Traikov stresses that he had endorsed his successor, Delyan Dobrev, several times and has no idea why he got blamed of setting traps for Dobrev. read more NEW BULGARIAN ECONMIN REJECTS FAKE DIPLOMA RUMORS Bulgaria's newly appointed Minister of Economy and Energy, Delyan Dobrev, shared that he felt tainted by rumors regarding his college diploma. Speaking Saturday for the Darik radio weekly political talk show, Dobrev said he was stunned how a rumor can become headline. read more BULGARIAN RIGHT-WINGERS OUTRAGED WITH NEW OWNER OF GORUBSO MINES Bulgarian right-wing party Union of Democratic Forces has criticized the news that businessman Nikolay Valkanov is taking over the concession of the Gorubso Madan metal mines. On Saturday, Union of Democratic Forces leader Martin Dimitrov expressed his dissatisfaction with Valkanov receiving the concession, pointing out that he was once vice president of the notorious Multigroup. read more BULGARIAN MEP STOYANOV FOUNDS NEW NATIONALIST PARTY Bulgarian MEP Dimitar Stoyanov, together with fellow MPs who left nationalist Ataka party, founded Sunday a new political party in Bulgaria, the National Democratic Party. Stoyanov founded the party together not only with the 5 Ataka renegade MPs, but also with his mother Kapka Siderova. read more BULGARIA EX-PM SET TO SOLVE THESEUS' PARADOX Former Bulgarian PM Reneta Indzhova, who was recently appointed head of Bulgaria's National Statistical Institute, likened her new job to mending the Ship of Theseus. "At the Statistics Bureau you have to steer the Ship of Theseus. The question is whether it's a new one, and if so, whether the new one lives up to the old one, and vice versa," commented Indzhova in an interview for TV7 Sunday. read more CHRISTIANS WORLDWIDE CELEBRATE ANNUNCIATION Christians throughout the world celebrate the feast of Annunciation Sunday - the day the Virgin Mary received the glad tidings that she will conceive and bear Jesus Christ. The day, celebrated close to the spring equinox and Easter, is marked on March 25, but is moved in order not to coincide with Easter or the Sunday preceding it. read more BODY OF RUN-OVER BULGARIAN BALLERINA FLOWN HOME FROM US The parents of Sofia-born ballet dancer Polina Kadiyska who died Tuesday after being struck in a hit-and-run in the United States have taken her body to Bulgaria. The family boarded the plane Friday after a two-day campaign to fundraise money to cover the expenses of transporting Kadiyska's body to be buried in her homeland. read more 'ROLL OF THUNDER' ARRIVES IN SOFIA Bulgarian bikers are "taking over" the capital Sofia Saturday, March 24th, one day before Annunciation. The opening and the celebration of the motor biking season is held traditionally during the first day off after the onset of astronomical spring. read more BULGARIA SWITCHES TO DAYLIGHT SAVING TIME Bulgaria switched to daylight saving time Sunday, turning clocks one hour ahead at 3 am. At 3 am Bulgarian time on March 25, all clocks will be turned one hour forward until 4 am EET on October 28, 2012. read more FRENCH ARCHAEOLOGISTS HELP BULGARIAN COLLEAGUES IN SOZOPOL French archaeologists arrived in Bulgaria to work jointly with local counterparts on fresh discoveries in Sozopol on the Black Sea, site of the ancient town of Apollonia. Tzonya Drazheva and Dimitar Nedev, main archaeologists of the Bulgarian team in Sozopol say they have found a burial complex from the Middle Ages at the site with many people buried in there. read more BULGARIA HEALTH MIN THREATENS TO BAN HEALTH-UNINSURED FROM HAVING ID CARDS Bulgarians who do not pay health insurance may be deprived of certain administrative services, including receiving identity cards, the country's newly appointed Health Minister has revealed. On Saturday, Minister Desislava Atanasova told Darik radio that she came up with the idea of imposing administrative sanctions to people who are not health insured already as an MP with the ruling centrist-right GERB. read more BULGARIAâ��S TENNIS HOPEFUL RECORDS HISTORIC MASTERS VICTORY Grigor Dimitrov of Bulgaria outlasted 29th-seeded Juan Ignacio Chela of Argentina 6-2, 4-6, 6-4 in the second round of the Sony Ericsson Open, thus reaching the third round of an ATP Masters event for the first time in his career. The overall score of matches between Dimitrov and Chela is 2-0 now. read more STRUGGLING BULGARIAN FOOTBALL TEAM RESORTS TO 'NO WIN, NO PAY' Bulgarian football club Kaliakra Kavarna, currently deep into the relegation zone of the country's A zone, has embraced a peculiar strategy to motivate its players. The club's president Venstislav Vasilev has decided to stop paying their players' wages until they start earning points. read more ONE SHOT IN BULGARIA GANGLAND WAR A Bulgarian man with a hefty criminal record has been shot overnight in front of his apartment building in a southern district of capital Sofia. Kiril Kirilov, aka Shkafa, was returning home in the Mladost-3 neighborhood together with his girlfriend, when attackers shot at him. read more BULGARIAN STUDENTS' LOVE DRAMA ENDS IN KNIFE BRAWL Two Bulgarian college students were arrested overnight Sunday after exchanging knife blows in a dormitory in the so-called Student City in Sofia. The two entered into a conflict, while being in the dorm room of a 21-year-old female student. read more BULGARIAN POLICE NAB ILLEGAL BETTING NETWORK Bulgarian anti-mafia police have broken down a criminal network for illegal online betting, announced the Ministry of Interior Sunday. The operation was organized by officers in the Computer Crimes, Intellectual Property and Gambling sector at the Organized Crime Directorate General. read more US, TURKEY VOW 'NON-LETHAL' HELP FOR SYRIA REBELS US President Barack Obama and Turkish PM Recep Tayyip Erdogan have agreed to send "non-lethal" supplies to anti-government rebels in Syria. The help to be coordinated between the USA and Turkey is set to include items such as communication equipment, announced an American source quoted by agencies. read more US SERGEANT CHARGED WITH 17 COUNTS OF MURDER IN AFGHAN MASSACRE US staff sergeant Robert Bales has been charged with 17 counts of murder and six counts of attempted murder after his shocking rampage in two southern Afghanistan villages. On March 11, Bales allegedly left his base in the early morning hours armed with a 9-millimeter pistol and an M-4 rifle, which was also outfitted as a grenade launcher. read more IT'S RAINING RESIGNATIONS IN BULGARIA The latest wave of resignations and reshuffles in Bulgaria started with the notorious bonus dismissals and ended with the sacking of two key cabinet members – of Economy and Energy, Traicho Traikov, and of Health, Stefan Konstantinov. As local politicians are notorious for refusing to resign, a number of Bulgarians continue to admire the strong will of Prime Minister, Boyko Borisov, always ready to send into oblivion those guilty of blunders. Many others, however, begin to fear something ominous behind this facade. read more |
