On Saturday, 24 August, President Rumen Radev is to take part in the official celebrations on the occasion of the 142nd anniversary of the Shipka epopee from the 1877-1878 Russo-Turkish war.
The battle at the Shipka pass in the Balkan range in the summer of 1877 was crucial to the course of the war that led up to the liberation of Bulgaria from Ottoman domination in 1878.
At 12 noon on Shipka peak the Bulgarian President and Commander-in-Chief of the Bulgarian armed forces will review the guard of honour, after which a memorial church service will be held.
At 1 PM the Shipka battle will be reenacted.
As the active season is set to begin, the Ministry of Tourism started checks into unfair practices in organized tourist travel. Two of the tour operators checked so far have not provided a certificate for carrying our tour operator activity and..
Ground forces military personnel destroyed an unexploded ordnance found yesterday in Vazrazhdane residential area of Sofia, the press service of the Ministry of Defence has announced. The ordnance was a corroded air bomb. The bomb was destroyed..
Conditions for mountain hiking are good until midday, with the exception of the Balkan Range, where there will be fog and rain, the Mountain Rescue Service says. In the afternoon the weather conditions will worsen and mountain hiking is not..
On Saturday, minimum temperatures in the country will be between 5 and 10°C, around 5°C in Sofia. The morning will be sunny. In the afternoon it will be..
Ground forces military personnel destroyed an unexploded ordnance found yesterday in Vazrazhdane residential area of Sofia, the press service of the..
Conditions for mountain hiking are good until midday, with the exception of the Balkan Range, where there will be fog and rain, the Mountain Rescue..
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