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2 April 2012, Issue 3355
by Novinite.com
Bulgaria's Daily Newspaper since 2001
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Petrov Quits Football, Determined to Fight Cancer
 Stiliyan Petrov, captain of Aston Villa and Bulgaria's national football team, has put an end to his professinal football career, according to Bulgarian media. read |
Bulgaria PM Pins Hopes on Georgia to Diversify Gas Supplies
 Bulgaria's prime minister said in Georgia he has seen for the first time ever a realistic opportunity to diversify his country's gas supplies. read |
Clinton Congratulates Bulgaria on Quitting Belene N-Project
 US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has congratulated Bulgaria on scrapping plans to build the 2,000 megawatt Belene nuclear power plant on the Danube River. read |
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BULGARIA STANDS FIRM ON SHADY DTT MUX DEALS - REPORT
Bulgaria will not declare void the controversial tenders for the operation of what will be the country's DTT multiplexes despite pressure from Brussels. This emerges from Bulgaria's Transport Ministry official statements in response to a list of questions, submitted by local Kapital Daily. read more 
BULGARIA REGISTERS BGN 565 M DEFICIT IN JAN-FEB 2012 Bulgaria has completed the first two months of 2012 with a budget deficit of BGN 565 M on cash base, the Finance Ministry announced Saturday providing data for the so called "Consolidated Fiscal Program", including the state budget and EU transactions. Thus, in January-February 2012, Bulgaria's state budget registered a deficit of BGN 327.6 M, while Bulgaria's EU payment balance (i.e. the EU funds received minus the country's contribution to the EU budget) is a negative BGN 237.4 M. read more BULGARIA PM PINS HOPES ON GEORGIA TO DIVERSIFY GAS SUPPLIES Bulgaria's prime minister said in Georgia he has seen for the first time ever a realistic opportunity to diversify his country's gas supplies. "Bulgaria and Georgia will work actively for drawing up a memorandum for gas supplies," Boyko Borisov said after meeting his Georgian counterpart Nikoloz Gilauri. read more CLINTON CONGRATULATES BULGARIA ON QUITTING BELENE N-PROJECT US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has congratulated Bulgaria on scrapping plans to build the 2,000 megawatt Belene nuclear power plant on the Danube River. Hillary Clinton welcomed the decision of the Bulgarian government at a bilateral meeting with Foreign Minister Nikolay Mladenov in the framework of "The Second Conference of the Group of the Syrian People' summit in Istanbul, Turkey. read more BULGARIA TO RELY LESS ON RUSSIA, PLEVNELIEV TELLS CORRIERE Bulgaria will aim to diversify its gas supplies and improve the efficiency of its energy sector, Corriere della Sera reported, citing an interview with President Rosen Plevneliev. "In order to do this, we need to have strategic vision, construct new facilities for energy production and focus on quality, not only on quantity," Bulgaria's head of state said in the interview, which he gave during his visit to Rome. read more BULGARIANS FACE HEATING PRICE HIKE Consumer prices of hot water, heating, and natural gas are going up in Bulgaria effective Sunday April 1. Despite the reached agreement with Russia's Gazprom for an 11% natural gas discount for Bulgaria, Bulgaria's Bulgargaz is going to sell products to end consumers with higher prices than the first quarter of 2011. read more BULGARIAN PARLIAMENT HEAD: BELENE DECISION WAS TOUGHEST EVER The decision to scrap the project to build jointly with Russia a second Nuclear Power Plant in Bulgaria's Danube town of Belene was the toughest in my life, says Speaker of the Parliament, Tsetska Tsacheva. Speaking Saturday in an interview for TV7, Tsacheva said she wanted all viewers and fellow people from the Pleven region, where she was elected Member of the Parliament to hear this. read more 
BULGARIAN PM: BELENE NUCLEAR PLANT PROJECT WAS CRIME Bulgarian Prime Minister, Boyko Borisov, reiterated Saturday his firm conviction that scrapping the project to build a second Nuclear Power Plant in the Danube town of Belene, had been the best decision. Borisov made the statement in an interview for the weekly political talk show of Darik radio, stressing that a referendum on the issue would have been a very complex and impossible to organize procedure of asking people to say yes or no on the NPP plans. read more BORISOV: BULGARIA COULD BE BUYING SHALE GAS FROM ROMANIA Bulgaria could be buying "cheap shale gas from Romania" if it builds a natural gas thermal power plant in place of the Belene NPP project, Bulgarian Prime Minister Boyko Borisov declared in a perplexing comment. Borisov spoke late Friday night at a news conference with Bulgarian Economy Minister Delyan Dobrev, who had just arrived from high profile energy talks in Moscow over the Russian participation in the Bulgarian nuclear project in Belene terminated earlier this week by the Bulgarian government. read more BULGARIA TRADES OFF SOUTH STREAM PROGRESS FOR CHEAPER RUSSIAN GAS Russia has agreed on an 11% natural gas discount for Bulgaria in exchange for a faster construction of the Bulgarian section of the South Stream gas transit pipeline. This information has been revealed by Bulgarian Economy and Energy Minister Delyan Dobrev, who spoke together with Bulgarian Prime Minister Boyko Borisov at a news conference shortly before midnight on Friday. read more BULGARIAN METAL MOGUL: I AM BROKE, HAVE NO MONEY FOR WAGES Valentin Zahariev, the turned-infamous owner of the Lead and Zinc Complex in Kardzhali, the leading Bulgarian non-ferrous metals producer, says he is broke and has no money for salaries. Speaking in an interview for Nova TV, Zahariev said claims he had BGN 126 M were pure lies and everything was placed in assets. read more BULGARIAN LEAD PLANT WORKERS GET MEAGER GOVT AID, SET FOR PROTESTS The workers from the highly troubled Lead and Zinc Complex (LZC; OTZK) in Bulgaria's southern city of Kardzhali have received meager one-time cash payments from the government but remain ready to strike. A total of 519 employees of the Lead and Zinc Complex in Kardzhali, the leading Bulgarian non-ferrous metals producer, who have not received salaries for half year, got BGN 325 each, secured by the Social Assistance Agency. read more BULGARIA, ITALY JOIN FORCES TO MAKE CORRIDOR 8 EU PRIORITY Bulgaria and Italy will work in order to make the still largely imaginary Pan-European Transport Corridor No. 8 a EU priority under a new funding instrument, Bulgarian President Rosen Plevneliev announced. Plevneliev spoke to the Bulgarian National Radio on Saturday, after returning from an official state in Italy, where he "resurrected", at least verbally, the project for Transport Corridor No. 8, which is supposed to link Central Asia and Western Europe via the Black Sea, the Balkans, and the Adriatic. read more OVER 70% OF BULGARIANS LIVE IN URBAN AREAS About 71% of all Bulgarians live in cities and towns, according to data of the National Statistics Institute, NSI. 5.3 million Bulgarians, of whom 2.5 million men and 2.7 million women reside in urban areas. The rest – about 2.1 million of whom 1 048 million men and 1 081 million women live in villages. read more PROBE DIGS PROOF FOR ARMY OWNERSHIP OF DEADLY BULGARIAN DAM The prosecutors from Bulgaria's southern city of Haskovo have traced the ownership of the "deadly" Ivanovo dam to the Defense Ministry. The largest private TV channel bTV reported Saturday that a document, dating from the 90s of the last century, had been found in the archives of the Harmanli Town Hall, where it is written that the Defense Ministry is banning farmers from the area to cultivate land plots near the dam. read more TARNISHED VARNA BISHOP THREATENS TO RESIGN AGAIN Varna Metropolitan Kirill will submit his resignation before the Holy Synod no later than Easter. The news was reported Sunday by Darik radio, citing people who say they heard Kiril make the statement during the mass he led at the city's cathedral. read more BULGARIA TO TEST SIREN SYSTEM IN 10 CITIES ON MONDAY Bulgaria's emergency siren system will be tested at 1:00 pm on Monday in ten Bulgarian cities, the interior ministry announced. The cities are Sofia, Burgas, Varna, Kardzhali, Montana, Pazardzhik, Pleven, Plovdiv, Ruse and Smolyan. read more HOPES RISE FOR MAN MAULED BY DOGS IN BULGARIA A 88-year man, who was rushed to hospital in critical condition after being mauled by a pack of stray dogs in a Sofia district, is still being kept in an awake coma, but hopes that his life is out of danger are rising. Boteo Tachkov, a renowned economist, 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. read more EARTH HOUR SPARES RECORD 56 MEGAWATTS OF ELECTRICITY TO SOFIA The power utility CEZ reports Sunday a record drop of 56 megawatts of electricity consumption in Bulgaria's capital Sofia during "Earth Hour 2012". The drop had been registered from 8:30 pm to 9:30 pm on Saturday, March 31, when the initiative took place. read more 4.0-MAGNITUDE EARTHQUAKE SHAKES SOUTHEASTERN BULGARIA A 4.0-magnitude earthquake on the Richter scale has been registered in Southeastern Bulgaria, according to the European Seismology Center. The tremor occurred at 10:48 pm Friday night EET, the Bulgarian Seismology Service announced Saturday, saying also its magnitude was 3.8. read more SNOW SURPRISES SOFIA ON APRIL FOOLS' DAY Snow arrived in Bulgaria's capital Sofia on April 1, the day the western world marks April Fools. The cold temperatures turned the rain into snow in the city, where the mercury is expected to fall down even more Sunday afternoon to the unusual for this time of the year 2 degrees Celsius. read more BULGARIA'S LAUGHTER KINGDOM CELEBRATES APRIL FOOL'S DAY The city of Gabrovo, known as the Bulgarian "Laughter Kingdom," celebrates Sunday April Fool's Day. Gabrovo is located some 220 km North-East from the capital Sofia. The city's residents are famous for their unique sense of humor and stinginess. These are the people who clip the tails of their cats to keep the room warmer and stop their watches at night to spare the worn-out of the cog-wheels. read more PETROV QUITS FOOTBALL, DETERMINED TO FIGHT CANCER Stiliyan Petrov, captain of Aston Villa and Bulgaria's national football team, has put an end to his professinal football career, according to Bulgarian media. The move comes after a shocking news emerged on Friday that he is suffering from acute leukemnia. read more FANS POUR IN 'DO IT FOR STAN' SUPPORT FOR VILLA'S BULGARIAN CAPTAIN PETROV The English Premiership club of Aston Villa has thanked its fans for the overwhelming show of support for captain Stiliyan Petrov, the Bulgarian midfielder, who has been diagnosed with Acute Leukaemia. The claret and blue family - and supporters of football clubs from all over Europe - were quick to rally around the popular Villa skipper, the club website said, adding that there have been floods of goodwill messages on forums and social networking websites. read more BULGARIA, VILLA CAPTAIN PETROV THANKS ALL FOR SUPPORT The captain of Bulgaria and Aston Villa Stiliyan Petrov, who has been diagnosed with Acute Leukaemia, has issued a statement of gratitude for the overwhelming support he got from fans. "I would like to thank all of the people who have left messages of support - the response has been overwhelming and I appreciate it very much," Stiliyan Petrov said Saturday afternoon in a special statement published on the Aston Villa club website. read more ASTON VILLA: STAN'S TRUE FIGHTER, UPLIFTING LEADER EVEN NOW Aston Villa boss and players have expressed their admiration at the courage of Bulgarian captain Stiliyan Petrov, who attended Saturday's 4-2 home defeat by Chelsea just a day after being diagnosed with leukemia. Petrov was this week diagnosed with Leukemia after complaining of feeling ill during their game against Arsenal 24 March. read more 2 CHARGED WITH MURDER OF BULGARIAN FOOTBALL FAN CLUB CHIEF Two people have been charged by the Prosecutor's Office in Bulgaria's southwestern city of Blagoevgrad with the murder of the Head of the local "Pirin" football team fan club. They are identified as Spas Pokrovnishki, 50, and Hristo Hristov, 49, and are being kept behind bars for 72 hours, the local police informs Sunday. read more BULGARIAN POLICE BUST 7 KG OF HEROIN AT ROMANIAN BORDER Bulgarian Border Police have captured a 7 kg shipment of heroin at the Vidin border crossing point on Saturday. A car with Bulgarian license plates driven by two Sofia residents aged 47 and 48 was intercepted when it was about to cross into Romania en route to Germany. read more FROM MONTANA TO THE MIDLANDS: GROUNDSWELL OF SUPPORT WILL HELP STILIAN PETROV Click here to read the story: www.novinite.com/view_news.php?id=138107 LEGITIMATE BRIBE A rich businessman wants to give an influential politician an expensive car as a gift. P: You know that I can not accept. It's a bribe! read more SUU KYI 'WINS MOMENTOUS VICTORY' IN MYANMAR ELECTION Burma's Nobel laureate Aung San Suu Kyi has won a by-election for parliament, her party says, after a landmark vote which saw 45 seats contested. Suu Kyi's opposition National League for Democracy (NLD) said she had easily won the vote in Kawhmu, though official counts have not yet finished. read more SYRIAN TROOPS TO STAY IN CITIES 'UNTIL PEACE', ASSAD REGIME SAYS Syrian government troops will stay in urban areas until "peace and security prevail," the Syrian government said on Saturday. "The presence of the Syrian Arab Army in Syrian cities is for defensive purposes [so] as to protect the civilians," Foreign Ministry spokesman Jihad Makdissi told state media late on Friday, as cited by Al Jazeera televison. read more |
