On this day in 1989, the November plenum of the Central Committee (CC) of the Bulgarian Communist Party (BCP) accepted the resignation of Todor Zhivkov as Secretary General of the CC of the BCP, after ruling the country for 35 years.
The demand for his resignation was organized by the member of BCP Politburo Petar Mladenov and Politburo candidate-member Andrey Lukanov, as a repercussion of Mikhail Gorbachev’s perestroika in the USSR. At the plenum, the CC members accepted Zhivkov’s resignation and put Petar Mladenov in his place as BCP Secretary General. The news quickly spread, and a few days later, tens of thousands of people came out into the streets for the first free political rally.
This date marks the start of the transition of Bulgaria to democracy and a market economy. Surveys from that time show that Bulgarians’ then expected the process of transition to take no more than 10 years. In practice, however it took decades.
Under the EU Civil Protection Mechanism, Spain has said it will send two aircraft, each with a capacity of around 6 tonnes, to help fight the wildfires in Bulgaria. It is likely that the flying machines will be able to join the extinguishing efforts as..
Bulgaria is actively working with Greece and Romania to secure EU funding for infrastructure projects to be used for both military and civilian purposes. This is what Bulgaria's Defence Minister Atanas Zapryanov explained to the MPs in Parliament..
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A total of 60 officers from the Bezmer and Kabile units are on the ground with equipment for firefighting, Bulgaria's Defence Minister Atanas Zapryanov..
A state of emergency remains in force in seven villages in the border municipality of Bolyarovo. The fight against the fire at the village of Voden..
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