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4 May 2012, Issue 3379
by Novinite.com
Bulgaria's Daily Newspaper since 2001
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10139 subscribers of Novinite.com
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Bulgaria Seeks Investor for Romania-Turkey Road
 Bulgaria will seek public-private partnership for the construction of the Ruse-Veliko Tarnovo-Svilengrad-Istanbul toll road, according to Regional Development Minister Lilyana Pavlova. read |
EC to Boycott Euro 2012 in Ukraine over Tymoshenko
 All EU commissioners will skip next month's Euro 2012 football championship in Ukraine to protest the country's treatment of its jailed ex-premier Yulia Tymoshenko, the EU's Kiev mission said Thursday. read |
Scandal Mars Miss Bulgaria Pageant
 The jury had revoked the crown of Miss Bulgaria 2012 Ina Mancheva after it was established that a hacker attack had manipulated the online vote of the audience. read |
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BRAZIL-JAILED BULGARIAN CHAMP GETS 9 YEARS BEHIND BARS
Bulgarian Olympic weightlifting champion Galabin Boevski has received an effective sentence of 9 years and 4 months of jail time from the Federal Court in Brazil. Boevski, allegedly recruited as a mule to smuggle illegal drugs from Brazil to Western Europe, was arrested on October 24th 2011, for possession of 9 kg of cocaine at the Guarulhos Airport in Sao Paulo, Brazil. The drug was found hidden in special secret compartments inside his suitcase. read more 
CHINA TO INVEST USD 1.5 B IN BULGARIA, CHAMBER CHIEF SAYS China is going to invest some USD 1.5 B in the Bulgarian economy in the upcoming years, according to Viktor Azmanov, chair of the Bulgarian-Chinese Chamber of Commerce and Industry. Azmanov said the governments of Bulgaria and China have already signed an economic cooperation memorandum that will enable the opening of several factories in Bulgaria with Chinese investments, creating up to 500 jobs. read more BULGARIA LAUNCHES INTERNATIONAL ROSE OIL AD CAMPAIGN The Bulgarian Ministry of Agriculture and Foods is planning special measures to promote Bulgarian rose oil and products made from it across the globe. The information was reported Thursday by Agriculture Minister, Miroslav Naydenov, during his visit to the capital of the country's Rose Valley – the town of Kazanlak, where he officially opened the renovated building of the State Forestry. read more CONFEDERATION OF BULGARIAN SYNDICATES ELECTS INTERIM HEAD AS PRESIDENT One of the two major trade unions in Bulgaria, the Confederation of Independent Bulgarian Syndicates (KNSB), has elected its interim chief Plamen Dimitrov as its permanent President. Dimitrov took over the KNSB in October 2010 as the Interim President, after the long-time head of the organization, Dr. Zhelyazko Hristov, passed away. read more OVER 80% OF BULGARIAN EMPLOYERS LACK UNIVERSITY EDUCATION Over 80% of all Bulgarian employers have only finished high school or have an even lower education level, according to a study conducted by the Bulgarian Industrial Association. There are some 300 000 active companies in Bulgaria and 80% of their owners have low education, Serafim Petrov, an expert from the Association, has told local media. read more BULGARIAN ECONOMIC COUNCIL MULLS ATTRACTING FOREIGN INVESTORS The Bulgarian Council for Economic Development and Social Policies is holding Thursday its very first meeting to discuss measures to encourage competitiveness and priorities for attracting foreign investments. The Council, along five others, was established at the presidential institution by new President, Rosen Plevneliev. The others are the Councils for Regional and Infrastructure Development, for Legal Affairs, for Science and Education, for Defense and Security, and for Spirituality, Culture and National Identity. read more FRENCH-BULGARIAN CHAMBER OF COMMERCE ELECTS NEW CHAIRMAN Stephane Delahaye has been elected as the new chairman of the French-Bulgarian Chamber of Commerce, Bulgarian news agencies inform. Delahaye has lived in the Balkan country for 12 years now and is a shareholder in various media and marketing companies. read more 
NETANYAHU TO RECEIVE COPY OF BULGARIAN LETTER THAT SAVED 50 000 JEWS Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will receive a copy of a historic letter written by Dimitar Peshev, the man whose initiative rescued a total of 50 000 Bulgarian Jews from deportation to Nazi concentration camps. The letter will be handed to Netanyahu by Petar Paunov, Mayor of Peshev's hometown of Kyustendil, Darik radio informs. read more BULGARIA WON'T PUNISH PILOTS OF CRASHED FIGHTER JET The two pilots of the MiG-29 fighter jet that crashed in Bulgaria last week will not be sanctioned, the country's Defense Minister Anyu Angelov declared on Thursday. On Wednesday, Angelov told local media that a pilot's mistake has caused the crash of the Bulgarian Air Force MiG 29, which went down on April 26, 2012, during the Thracian Star 2012 joint military drills with the US. read more EC TO BOYCOTT EURO 2012 IN UKRAINE OVER TYMOSHENKO All EU commissioners will skip next month's Euro 2012 football championship in Ukraine to protest the country's treatment of its jailed ex-premier Yulia Tymoshenko, the EU's Kiev mission said Thursday. "As we know, (European Commission) President (Jose Manuel) Barroso has no intention of travelling to Ukraine or visiting any of the Euro 2012 events," the mission said on its Facebook account. read more EU DIPLOMATS 'PLEASED' WITH BULGARIA'S CONFISCATION BILL Bulgaria's Justice Minister, Diana Kovacheva, met Thursday with Ambassadors in Sofia from the European Union Member States to discuss the country's parliamentary debates on the controversial bill authorizing confiscation of illegal assets. Kovacheva told the media that the diplomats have demonstrated huge interest towards the bill and are following the debates closely. They have also vowed full support for Bulgaria in the passing of "such complex and difficult law." read more EP CHIEF SCHULZ BACKS BULGARIA'S STANISHEV FOR PES PRESIDENT European Parliament President Martin Schulz has thrown his weight behind Bulgarian Socialist Party leader and ex PM Sergey Stanishev for the permanent post of President of the Party of European Socialists. Schulz, who was also the leader of the European Socialists in the European Parliament before taking it over, had a guest lecture at Sofia University Thursday, organized by the Atlantic Club in Bulgaria and the Friedrich Ebert Foundation. read more BULGARIA TO LEARN DECENTRALIZATION FROM SWITZERLAND - PRESIDENT Bulgaria is starting a process of decentralization, and it can make good use of Switzerland's know-how, according to President Rosen Plevneliev. Plevneliev welcomed in Sofia Thursday Hans Altherr, President of the Council of States of Switzerland, the smaller and upper house of the Swiss Federal Assembly, the Bulgarian Presidency press service reported. read more EC APPROVES STATE AID FOR PROMOTING BULGARIAN SHEPHERD DOGS The European Commission has approved a state aid scheme for the participation of Bulgarian Shepherd Dogs in international cynology exhibitions in 2012, according to an announcement of the Bulgarian Agriculture Ministry. The money will be transferred to the Bulgarian Cynology Club. read more BULGARIA SEEKS INVESTOR FOR ROMANIA-TURKEY ROAD Bulgaria will seek public-private partnership for the construction of the Ruse-Veliko Tarnovo-Svilengrad-Istanbul toll road, according to Regional Development Minister Lilyana Pavlova. In a Thursday interview for private TV station bTV, she said that this would allow a faster connection of the Bosphorus with the Danube Bridge through European Transport Corridor #9. read more BULGARIA TO RELOCATE 2 MINISTRIES TO PLOVDIV BY SEPTEMBER Bulgaria will move its Agriculture Ministry and the tourism unit of the Ministry of Economy, Energy and Tourism to the country's second largest city of Plovdiv by September 2012, a local official has stated. Approximately 100 employees of the tourism unit will be transferred to Plovdiv, the city's Deputy Mayor Stefan Stoyanov has explained, as cited by the 24 Chasa daily. read more BULGARIAN MPS PASS MORE OF CONFISCATION BILL AT MIDNIGHT Bulgaria's ruling majority in the Parliament has adopted another part of a controversial bill authorizing confiscation of illegal assets at midnight Wednesday and the debates are continuing full force Thursday. It is expected that the Members of the Parliament will continue to work overtime until the end of the workweek in order to turn the bill into law by Friday. read more BULGARIA MARKS PRESS FREEDOM DAY AMIDST SLUMPING RANKINGS Bulgaria and Bulgarian journalists mark soberly Thursday the UN World Press Freedom Day. The United Nations General Assembly declared 3 May to be World Press Freedom Day to raise awareness of the importance of freedom of the press and remind governments of their duty to respect and uphold the right to freedom of expression enshrined under Article 19 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and marking the anniversary of the Declaration of Windhoek, a statement of free press principles put together by African newspaper journalists in 1991. read more SEEMO REAFFIRMS COMMITMENT TO MEDIA FREEDOM IN SEE The South and East Europe Media Organization has issued a statement declaring its continuing struggle for press freedom on the occasion of the World Press Freedom Day, May 3, 2012. "The struggle for press freedom is a continuing endeavour," Oliver Vujovic, secretary general of the South East Europe Media Organisation (SEEMO), an affiliate of the International Press Institute (IPI), declared in recognition of this year's World Press Freedom Day, which falls on May 3. read more EX FOREIGN MINISTER GANEV TO LEAVE USA FOR BULGARIA Stoyan Ganev, one of the emblematic figures of the early years of Bulgaria's post-communist transition, is going to leave the USA, and to settle back in his Bulgarian hometown of Pazardzhik, a report says. Ganev is known as Bulgaria's Deputy PM and Foreign Minister in the 1991-1992 government of PM Filip Dimitrov. He is famous for a controversial purge of Bulgaria's Foreign Ministry after the collapse of the communist regime in 1989. In 1992, he chaired the 47th session of the UN General Assembly. read more NEARLY 200 TAXI DRIVERS IN SOFIA WITH SUSPENDED LICENSE A specialized operation of Sofia's Transport Police unit has revealed widespread violations of Road Traffic Act provisions among taxi drivers. The idea for the operation came after a meeting between representatives of the major taxi companies and senior officials of the Sofia Police Directorate. read more 400 TONS OF MUNICIPAL SOLID WASTE BURN DOWN IN NORTHWESTERN BULGARIA Some 400 tons of municipal solid waste have burned down in a major fire at an open separate waste collection site in the northwestern city of Vratsa. The tip-off for the fire was given a little after 7 p.m. on Wednesday. read more NATIONAL STATS SHOW ADVANCE OF BULGARIA'S EDUCATION STRUCTURE One of every five Bulgarians or a total of 1.35 million people (nearly 20%) have a college degree, according to the February 2011 Population Census results. The data was published Thursday by the country's National Statistics Institute, NSI. read more 30 BULGARIAN CUSTOMS OFFICERS CAUGHT RED-HANDED WITH BRIBES A special operation, codenamed "Customs" has been conducted Wednesday evening at the Capitan Andreevo checkpoint on the Bulgarian-Turkish border. The operation, carried out by the Main Directorate for Combatting Organized Crime, GDBOP, the Internal Security Department of the Interior Ministry, and the Sofia City Prosecutor's Office, aimed at countering racketeering of people and companies passing through the checkpoint. read more 8 BULGARIAN CUSTOMS OFFICERS FACE EXTORTION, BRIBERY CHARGES Charges have been pressed against 8 of the total of 32customs officers detained during the "Customs" special operation at the Bulgaria–Turkey border crossing at Kapitan Andreevo, according to Sofia City Prosecutor Nikolay Kokinov. Kokinov told journalists Thursday that five had been charged with participating in an organized crime group specialized in racketeering and three were facing bribery charges. read more BULGARIA'S NOROTIOUS MOBSTER PAIR GOES TO JAIL Bulgaria's Supreme Court of Cassations upheld Thursday the jail sentences of the notorious alleged mobster pair Angel Hristov and Plamen Galev, better known as the Galevi brothers. The magistrates, however, reduced Galev's sentence by two years and Hristov's by one on grounds they have clean criminal records and are known for charitable activities. Galev will thus serve 5 years behind bars while Hristov will be in jail for 4 years, both on charges of participating in an organized crime group dealing with racket and extortion. The rule is final and cannot be appealed. read more BULGARIAN NURSERY SCHOOL DIRECTOR CAUGHT WITH HEFTY BRIBE A 45-year-old director of a nursery school in Bulgaria's Varna has been arrested with a bribe of BGN 700 (EUR 340), which is more than twice the minimum monthly salary in the country (ЕUR 150). Diana Agop Kuneva, who is in charge of the Iglika nursery school in the Troshevo quarter in the Black Sea city of Varna, was busted on Thursday with the bribe in a police operation, announced Varna District Prosecutor Vladimir Chavdarov. read more BULGARIAN WOMAN SHOT DEAD IN DETROIT 37-year-old Bulgarian Tzveta Tocheva was shot dead in her car in Detroit, local police authorities say. The police are yet to discover any motives, clues and suspects. The case does not appear to be a robbery, myfoxdetroit.com says. read more SCANDAL MARS MISS BULGARIA PAGEANT The jury had revoked the crown of Miss Bulgaria 2012 Ina Mancheva after it was established that a hacker attack had manipulated the online vote of the audience. The news was announced Thursday by TV7, which was the main organizer of the pageant. read more GREEK BUSINESSES FLEE TO BULGARIA Click here to read the story: www.novinite.com/view_news.php?id=139023 PUTIN WANTS TO TREAT TYMOSHENKO, SLAMS EURO 2012 BOYCOTT Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin responded Thursday to calls for a boycott of the Euro 2012 football championship in Ukraine over the case of jailed ex PM Yulia Tymoshenko by saying that sport and politics should not mix. Putin also expressed Russia's readiness to accept "with pleasure" Tymoshenko for medical treatment, should the Ukrainian authorities agree. read more TADIC URGES SERBS TO REELECT HIM FOR EU INTEGRATION'S SAKE Serbia's Boris Tadic, who stepped down as president last month ahead of May elections, said on Thursday he would keep Serbia on the path to European integration if elected to a third term. "Our policy is for progress on the European ladder: we've received EU candidate status, now we should begin accession talks," he told Serbian National Television RTS, cited by RIA Novosti. read more MACEDONIA REVEALS SUSPECTS IN LAKESIDE MURDER CASE Macedonian media have revealed the identity of the suspects for the brutal murder of five men that took place last month near Skopje. 27-year-old Alil Demir, 32-year-old Afrim Ismailovic and his brother, 33-year-old Agim Ismailovic are the alleged shooters, according to the Macedonian Utrinski vestnik daily. read more MERKEL HASN'T MADE UP HER MIND ABOUT UKRAINE VISIT German Chancellor Angela Merkel has stated that she would be making a last minute decision whether to attend the European Football Championship in Ukraine. Merkel is one of the top European officials that have threatened to boycott the Euro 2012 games in Ukraine due to concerns over the treatment of the country's former Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko. read more PRESS FREEDOM (IN BULGARIA) DOES NOT COME ON A PLATE Click here to read the story: www.novinite.com/view_news.php?id=139024 |
Press Freedom (in Bulgaria) Does Not Come On a Plate
