On occasion of the indictment against Bulgaria’s former Minister of Economy, Energy and Tourism Traycho Traykov Capital daily quotes on Wednesday a post in the social networks of Bulgaria’s former Ambassador to Russia and current energy consultant Ilyan Vasilev who said that it didn’t matter what the indictment against Traykov was. The purpose of the media of notorious media tycoon Delyan Peevski was to discredit Traykov and incapacitate him of taking part at the forthcoming Parliamentary elections. Otherwise, Bulgaria’s Chief prosecutor Sotir Tsatsarov knows that none of the politicians who recently received indictments would be sentenced, Ilyan Vasilev adds.
According to amendments to the Criminal Code tabled to the National Assembly in the last working day of 2016, hackers who infect an information system with an internet virus could be sentenced to jail for up to 4 years or pay a fine of EUR 3000, Sega daily informs on its first pages. The recent measures came as a response against a series of hacker attacks against public web sites on the eve of the local elections in 2015, the newspaper further writes.
The state authorities deprived 191 young Bulgarians of child benefits, because they became young grandmothers, data of the Agency for Social Assistance quoted by Monitor daily show. Parents of underage mothers have not been able to receive child benefits since 2016. This is one of the cabinet’s measures against the phenomenon “children give birth to children”. According to the social services, each year nearly 800 Bulgarian girls give birth before turning eighteen.
Student applicants will be able to study Bulgarian Philology if they pass successfully a foreign language exam. This measure is part of the amendments planned by the Sofia University Saint Kliment Ohridski, Telegraph daily informs on Wednesday.
People should refrain from travelling across Bulgaria at the end of this week, the Bulgarian Ministry of Interior announced. The meteorological services are forecasting storms, plenty of snowfalls and freezing temperatures of up to -20 C, Standart daily writes. The authorities will close some mountain passes due to the expected bad weather conditions, in order to prevent possible piling of vehicles.
Not all people are complaining of the rapid decrease of the air temperatures, 24 Chassa daily informs on its first pages. Citizens of Bulgaria’s capital Sofia are taking advantage of the opportunity to play ice hockey over the fish-breeding pond near Pancharevo Lake which was covered with ice.
English version: Kostadin AtanasovSaturday will be sunny and hot. Clouds will form in the afternoon, and there may be brief showers in isolated places in the Eastern part of the country. Minimum temperatures 18-23° C., for Sofia 18° C. Maximum temperatures 35-40° C., for Sofia 35°..
On this day in 1991 the Seventh Grand National Assembly adopted the new Constitution of Bulgaria and dissolved itself, BTA recalls. This was the first new constitution in the former socialist camp, which came into effect the very next day, July 13. On..
The Bulgarian MPs have adopted regulations for the organization and activities of the National Assembly, BTA reported. The majority rejected the proposals of "Vazrazhdane" and ITN to have the MPs tested for drugs. ITN's proposal provided for the..
The largest archaeological campaign ever conducted on Perperikon has begun, BTA reports. Prof. Nikolay Ovcharov, head of the research at..
After 17 MPs from the Movement for Rights and Freedoms, MRF, were expelled, among them the party’s other co-chair Dzevdet Chakarov, MRF MP Ahmed..
Greece’s Minister of Defence Nikos Dendias announced that Greece, Bulgaria and Romania are to establish a military mobility corridor in NATO’s Eastern..
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