Bulgaria Media

Prosecutors are not seeking harsher penalties for road killers and agree to plea bargains because Bulgarian prisons are overcrowded, Deputy Chief Prosecutor Valeri Parvanov said Tuesday in an interview for the Bulgarian National Television .

Campaigns to raise funds for people hard-hit by the floods in Bulgaria have been started by the Bulgarian Red Cross, in partnership with the country's three mobile operators, as well as by public broadcaster Bulgarian National Television.

Property prices in Bulgaria were five to 10 per cent lower in 2011 than in 2010, while initial estimates for this year are that they will remain largely unchanged, at "crisis levels", according to brokers quoted in a report by television station bTV.

The year 2012 will not be an easy one, either in Bulgaria or in the United States, US ambassador in Sofia James Warlick said in a January 5 interview with Bulgarian National Television.

There is very little room at the inn as vacancies at ski resorts in Bulgaria are running out fast, according to a report by Bulgarian National Television on December 22 2011.

There is very little room at the inn as vacancies at ski resorts in Bulgaria are running out fast, according to a report by Bulgarian National Television on December 22 2011.

Russia's foreign ministry has been officially notified of Bulgaria's decision to pull out of the Bourgas-Alexandroupolis oil pipeline, Russian newspaper RBC Daily said, quoting a statement by the ministry's press office.

Part of the ancient fortress wall of Philippopolis was discovered during excavations by EVN Heating in the centre of Plovdiv, Bulgarian National Television said on December 9 2011.

A man was arrested after stealing a kitchen knife from a supermarket in Bulgaria's Black Sea city of Bourgas and investigators found that it was his 14th such theft in recent days, television station bTV said.

A stuntman has died and another was injured on a film shoot for star-studded Hollywood action sequel "The Expendables 2" in Bulgaria, the production company said.

The incident occurred while the two men were shooting a scene involving an explosion in a rubber boat near a dam on Lake Ognyanovo in southwestern Bulgaria last Thursday, media reports said.

The accident "resulted in one fatality and one injury," said a spokesman for the production in an email to AFP, while the Sofia Echo English-language newspaper said the injured man underwent five hours of surgery.

A stuntman has died while filming an action scene for "The Expendables 2" movie in Bulgaria, local newspaper The Sofia Echo reported Friday.

The Central Election Commission expects to be fully ready on October 25 with the results of the October 23 2011 voting in Bulgaria's presidential and municipal elections, Bulgarian National Television said.

Now, even though not in power, Ahmed Dogan is still fit to play the role of a parallel authority, the journalists from an anti-government newspaper claim.

Bulgaria's Prime Minister, Boyko Borisov, has been mentioned in nearly 900 newspaper articles in 5-weeks time in the eve of the presidential and local elections.

A 73-year-old man who had been snowbound in a hut along with fellow loggers and a group of children died of hypothermia, television station bTV reported on October 18 2011 amid a surge of freezing weather that gripped eastern Bulgaria.

A 32-year-old Russian expatriate living in Bulgaria was beaten and robbed of 4000 leva and a mobile phone after leaving a casino, police in Varna said, according to an October 17 2011 report by television station bTV.

Ruling party GERB's candidate in Bulgaria's October 23 presidential elections, Rossen Plevneliev, right, and his vice-presidential running mate Margarita Popova Photo: Nadezhda Chipeva Bulgaria's three presidential candidates top-rated in opinion polls, along with their running mates, are to take part in a debate to be broadcast live on television ... (more)

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Two more flights from Bourgas to St Petersburg, on September 15 and 16, were cancelled because of the debt dispute between Bulgaria Air and tour company Alma Tour, Bulgarian National Television said on September 16.

Grantham's new show, which premieres in Bulgaria next week, comes as the actor slammed British television for being too 'celebrity-obsessed'.

Discussions about Bulgaria's Belene nuclear power station are proceeding at a good pace but no decision would be made before the October 23 elections, Economy and Energy Minister Traicho Traikov told Bulgarian National Television on August 25.

Most unemployed Bulgarians are looking for work for over a year, according to a poll conducted by Gallup International of the request of the Classa newspaper reports Sofia News Agency.Despite reports Bulgaria is nearing the end of the economic crisis, the labor market remains... The first thing you need to do is choose a news reader, if you already ... (more)

Most unemployed Bulgarians are looking for work for over a year, according to a poll conducted by Gallup International of the request of the Classa newspaper.

Bulgaria 's anti-trust commission will launch a probe into a possible newspaper monopoly, the first of its kind in the country.

More than 30 closed-circuit television security cameras are monitoring the central avenue in the Sea Garden of Bulgaria's Black Sea city of Bourgas, Bulgarian National Television said on July 13 2011.

Bulgaria has become one of the most favoured places for young western Europeans and other foreigners who want to indulge in "alcohol tourism," the private television channel bTV reported on June 7 2011.

Bulgaria's jobless rate stood at 8.7 per cent as of late June, corresponding to 32 000 unemployed, or 37 000 fewer than the number registered in the same period of the previous year, Labour Minister Totyu Mladenov told television channel bTV on June 24 2011.

The former government plane used by Bulgaria's long-standing communist dictator Todor Zhivkov will be sunk off the coast of Varna on May 24, creating an artificial reef that local authorities hope will offer scuba divers another incentive to visit the city, Bulgarian National Television reported on May 23 2011.

Bulgaria's Economy Minister Traicho Traykov said on public television that for his country, it was "better to have a black economy than none". The comment triggered astonishment nationwide not because of its substance, but due to the fact that it came from a government minister. Dnevnik, EurActiv's partner in Bulgaria, reports.

Bulgaria will bid farewell to one of its favourite actors, and most iconic television and cinema figures, Georgi Roussev, who passed away on April 1 2011.

Thousands of farm animals in the Strandzha region are earmarked for destruction as a new outbreak of foot-and-mouth FMD in the region of Sredets was confirmed, Bulgarian National Television reported on March 28 2011.

There has been another shootout between two Roma families in Bulgaria in which a man and two women have been shot, the private television channel bTV reported on March 25 2011.

A bank robbery is reported to have taken place in the town of Sliven in eastern Bulgaria, private television channel bTV reported on March 23 2011.

The cold front and fresh snow headed for Bulgaria has caused a major obstruction along the E79 international road linking west Bulgaria to Greece, Bulgarian National Television reported on March 7 2011.