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9 April 2012, Issue 3360
by Novinite.com
Bulgaria's Daily Newspaper since 2001
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Bulgarian Professor Mauled by Stray Dogs Passes Away
 Botio Tachkov, a renowned economist, who was brutally attacked by a large pack of stray dogs in the Malinova Dolina quarter in the Bulgarian capital at the end of last month, has passed away. read |
Foreign Minister Urges Bulgarians to Leave Syria
 All Bulgarian citizens are strongly advised to leave Syria as soon as possible, urged Bulgarian Foreign Affairs Minister Nikolay Mladenov. read |
Russia Plans to Revive 'Frozen' Trans-Balkan Pipe
 Russian oil company Transneft has not given up the Burgas-Alexandroupolis oil pipeline and plans to return to the project in the future. read |
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FINMIN: BULGARIA COULD USE FUEL RESERVE TO TAME PRICES
Using the state's fuel reserve might be
the best option for keeping down fuel prices in Bulgaria, according to
Bulgarian Minister of Finance Simeon Djankov.
During a visit to Haskovo Saturday, Djankov opposed an idea voiced
by cabinet colleague, new Minister of Economy and Energy Delyan Dobrev,
who had suggested that Bulgaria could lift the requirement of a biofuel component to alleviate the costs of producers. read more
BULGARIA EX-PRESIDENT CLAIMS MERIT FOR OWN ENERGY POLICY Former Bulgarian President Georgi Parvanov defended Saturday what he claimed to have contributed to Bulgaria's energy policy in response to criticims by PM Boyko Borisov. "The records of my energy endeavors are so extensive that the PM cannot manage to read them through in one day," quipped an angry Parvanov. read more ALPHA BANK TO SELL 30% STAKE IN EASTERN EUROPE UNITS - REPORT Alpha Bank will reportedly sell 30% in its Eastern European units to European Bank for Reconstruction and Development. Alpha Bank plans to separate its units in Romania, Ukraine, Serbia, Bulgaria, Albania and Macedonia from their Greek parent and place them into a holding company in which the EBRD would buy a stake, Athens-based Real News reported on Sunday, as cited by Bloomberg. read more RUSSIA PLANS TO REVIVE 'FROZEN' TRANS-BALKAN PIPE Russian oil company Transneft has not given up the Burgas-Alexandroupolis oil pipeline and plans to return to the project in the future. Transeft vice-chair Mikhail Barkov stated at a forum in Moscow that his company plans to build the pipeline at a more favorable point in time. read more HUNDREDS RALLY IN SUPPORT OF SCRAPPED BULGARIAN BELENE NPP
Around 500 people gathered Saturday in protest against the recent
giving up of the Belene NPP project by the Bulgarian government. read more
FOREIGN MINISTER URGES BULGARIANS TO LEAVE SYRIA All Bulgarian citizens are strongly advised to leave Syria as soon as possible, urged Bulgarian Foreign Affairs Minister Nikolay Mladenov. The Bulgarian Ministry of Foreign Affairs had issued the call March 17, but Saturday Mladenov repeated the calls. read more BULGARIAN LAWMAKERS SET ON OFFICIAL TRIP TO JAPAN A Bulgarian Parliamentary delegation is leaving Sunday on an official visit to Japan, the Parliament press center informs. The delegation, led by the Speaker of the Parliament, Tsetska Tsacheva, will be in Japan between April 8 and 12 on the invitation of Kenji Hirata, the President of the Japanese House of Councilors. read more 
BLACK SEA NAVAL FORCE STARTS DRILLS AT CONSTANTA The Black Sea Naval Force (BLACKSEAFOR) started its regular spring drills from the Romanian port of Constanta. Since August last year the operative command over the international group has been handed to Russian Navy representative captain Yuriy Zemskiy, with a flagship the large landing ship Caesar Kunikov. read more PES LEADER VOWS TO DEAL WITH YOUTH UNEMPLOYMENT IN BULGARIA, EU Sergey Stanishev, president of the Party of European Socialist, has launched a campaign to curb youth unemployment in the bloc and in his home country. "Youth unemployment is increasing in our country, it is now 29%, which is above the average for the EU," Stanishev has pointed out. read more NO-CONFIDENCE VOTE ON HOLD OVER BULGARIAN MPS EASTER BREAK The no-confidence vote against the cabinet "Borisov" will be debated and will take place after the Members of the Parliament Easter break. The no-confidence vote was submitted by the opposition, left-wing Bulgarian Socialist Party, BSP, and the far-right, nationalist Ataka party over the decision of the government to scrap the project to build jointly with Russia a second nuclear power plant in the Danube town of Belene. read more DEPUTY PM CONGRATULATES BULGARIAN ROMA ON THEIR DAY Bulgaria's Deputy Prime Minister and Interior Minister, Tsvetan Tsvetanov, congratulated Sunday the Roma community in the country on the occasion of the International Roma Day. "Our responsibility as society and as an EU member State is greater than ever. We must offer a positive, practical, and stable contribution for the realization of a common European policy of integration of Roma people," Tsvetanov, who is the Chairman of the National Council for Partnership on Ethnic and Integration Issues, said. read more SOFIA MAYOR HINTS OF EUTHANIZING AGGRESSIVE STRAY DOGS The stray dog population is one of the biggest problems that Bulgaria's capital Sofia is facing, the city's Mayor, Yordanka Fandakova, has reiterated. "It is important for me that packs of stray dogs are removed from the streets of the city," Fandakova declared on Sunday. read more BULGARIAN PROFESSOR MAULED BY STRAY DOGS PASSES AWAY Botio Tachkov, a renowned economist, who was brutally attacked by a large pack of stray dogs in the Malinova Dolina quarter in the Bulgarian capital at the end of last month, has passed away. Tachkov died early Sunday morning at the Military Medical Hospital in Sofia, the largest private TV channel bTV informs, citing his family. The cause of death has been listed as multiple organ failure. He had serious cardiac problems during the entire hospital stay, despite the fact that his wounds had been heeling well. read more FIRE ERUPTS IN GAS STATION ON MAIN SOFIA ROAD A fire broke out in the canteen of the OMV gasoline station on the main Sofia thoroughfare "Tzarigradsko Shosse." The Interior Ministry informs that the fire started around 10 am Sunday at the gas station located between the Regional Hospital and the exit for Sofia's "Mladost" district. read more BULGARIANS CELEBRATE RESURRECTION OF LAZARUS Bulgarian Eastern Orthodox Christians mark Saturday St. Lazarus Day, a holiday intimately connected with Easter and having an important place in Bulgarian folklore beliefs. Also known as Lazarus Saturday, the day is always celebrated on the day before Palm Sunday, which in turn is marked on the Sunday before Easter. read more BULGARIA DECLARES CODE YELLOW OVER HIGH WINDS A code yellow for dangerous weather has been called Sunday for the entire territory of Bulgaria, over expected strong winds. Sunday the weather in the country will turn for the worse after a warm Saturday, annouced the National Institute of Meteorology and Hydrology at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences. read more CATHOLICS AROUND WORLD CELEBRATE EASTER Pope Benedict XVI served on Sunday an open-air Easter mass in St Peter's Square, followed by his traditional "urbi et orbi" (to the city and the world) blessing. The mass and the blessing, delivered in a number of labguages, including Bulgarian, were broadcast live across the globe. read more BULGARIA MARKS INTERNATIONAL ROMA DAY Bulgarian Roma across the country celebrate Sunday April 8, the International Roma Day. April 8, the International Day of the Roma, is a day of celebration of Roma culture, history and traditions. The Day also draws attention to discrimination directed to Roma and Gypsy communities globally and calls for all human rights to be respected and observed. read more BULGARIAN ORTHODOX CHRISTIANS CELEBRATE PALM SUNDAY Bulgarian Orthodox Christians celebrate Palm Sunday - Tsventisa-Vrabnitsa, to mark the triumphal arrival of Christ into Jerusalem. The Bulgarian tradition is to carry flowers and willow branches, rather than palm leaves, and the day is also regarded as the holiday of the fields, meadows and forests. It is one of the most important holy days, falling one week before Easter, and marking the beginning of the Passion of Christ. read more BULGARIAN CAPITAL HOLDS EASTER FESTIVAL The municipality of Bulgarian capital Sofia has called the fourth annual Easter Festival set to last from Saturday until Easter, April 15. This year it will take place in the area of the Summer Theater, in the Borisova Gradina park in downtown Sofia. read more 3000 IN VITRO BABIES MAY BE BORN IN BULGARIA BY END OF 2012 Bulgaria's Health Minister Desisislava Atanasova has stated she hopes 3000 in vitro babies will be born by the end of 2012. Approximately 12 000 women have made us of the country's Assisted Reproduction Fund since it was launched in 2009, Atanasova has pointed out, adding that she hoped their number to reach 15 000 by the end of 2012. read more BULGARIAN CUSTOMS SEIZE MASSIVE ANTIQUE COINS DISPATCH Bulgarian customs officers prevented close to 1,000 antique coins being smuggled out of the country Saturday. Upon inspecting the sleeping compartment of a bus servicing a regular line to England, upon its crossing into Serbia at the Kalotina checkpoint near Sofia. read more BULGARIAN BORDER POLICE BUST INTERNATIONAL CAR THEFT RING Bulgarian border police have arrested overnight Saturday into Sunday a group of foreign nationals attempting to drive stolen vehicles out of the country. The operation, codenamed "Poseidon," had been carried out the Capitan Andreevo cross border checkpoint between Bulgaria and Turkey. read more BULGARIAN POLICE UNCOVER 2 ATM SKIMMING UNIT WORKSHOPS
Bulgarian police broke into two workshops for the construction of ATM
skimming devices, arresting 5 persons involved in the illegal
production. read more
WOMAN HEAVILY STABBED IN BRAWL OVER BAKERY IN SOFIA A 38-year-old woman has been hospitalized with her life in danger after she was attacked with a knife by her business partner in Bulgarian captial Sofia. The brawl happened late Friday on the central Sofia Hristo Botev Blvd. read more THE SUN: CHERNOBYL MELTDOWN GAVE PETROV CANCER Click here to read the story: www.novinite.com/view_news.php?id=138326 EASTER BOMB EXPLODES IN NIGERIA A car bomb went off in the Nigerian city of Kaduna Sunday, killing an undetermined number of people. The wreckage was such that it was difficult to put an exact number on deaths, The Daily Times of Nigeria says, citing a police spokesperson. read more N KOREA GEARING UP FOR NUCLEAR TEST - REPORT North Korea is preparing for its third nuclear test, according to a media report. The nuclear test will allegedly take place in Punggye-ri nuclear test cite in northeast North Korea, where the communist country conducted two previous nuclear tests, in 2006 and in 2009. read more BRUSSELS TRANSPORT ON STRIKE AFTER WORKER WAS KILLED Transport workers in Belgian capital Brussels continued a strike for a second day on Sunday after an employee was killed early on Saturday. A supervisor working for Societe des Transports Intercommunaux de Bruxelles, the company that runs public transport in the city, was beaten to death Saturday morning after he was called to the site of an accident between a bus and a car. read more RUSSIA DEPLOYS S-400 MISSILE DEFENSE IN KALININGRAD Russia has deployed an advanced S-400 Triumf missile defense system in its westernmost exclave Kaliningrad Oblast, report agencies. The move is believed to be in response of Russian worries regarding the placing of a NATO missile defense shield in Eastern Europe. read more PUBLIC TRANSPORT IN BRUSSELS HALTED AFTER BRUTAL ASSAULT Authorities in Belgian captial Brussels have stopped traffic of all public transportation in the city after the brutal beating of a traffic inspector. The inspector has been hospitalized with his life under severe threat after a brutal battery he received upon turning up at a traffic accident between a bus and a car. read more FRENCH INTERIOR WARN OF NEW 'SERIAL KILLER' AHEAD OF ELECTIONS Security levels have been raised in a number of areas in French capital Paris, after police announced what they called suspicions of a new serial killer. Friday an Algerian immigrant woman was shot in a hit and run attack by a scooter rider in a Paris suburb. read more US JET CRASHED IN VIRGINIA DUE TO TECHNICAL FAILURE The most probable reason for the jet crash of a US Navy F-18D Superhornet into a Virginia Beach residential building is technical failure. This has been reported Saturday by the CNN, quoting US Navy spokesperson Mark Weisgerber. read more IN SOFIA, ANIMALS EAT YOU! Prominent Bulgarian Economy Professor Boteo Tachkov passed away on Sunday after being brutally attacked by a pack of aggressive stray dogs in Sofia last week. Yordanka Fandakova, who for some reason is still Mayor of the Bulgarian capital, recently promised to decrease the number of stray dogs in the city by 95% by 2016. Even if this promise is fulfilled, there will be most probably other victims of stray dogs by then. read more |
In Sofia, Animals Eat YOU!
