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Bulgaria Issue Endearing Statement after Catastrophic Loss from England Bulgaria's national football team has come up with a statement appealing to Bulgarian fans for support after the catastrophic 4:0 loss from England at the start of the Euro 2012 qualifications.
In the statement published by the Bulgarian Football Union, the players and coaches of the Bulgarian national football team declare that they "commiserate" with the Bulgarian people after Friday's loss at Wembley in London.
"We are suffering no less that you are," the football players have told the Bulgarian fans.
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| Bulgaria's F1-Gate Expands as Abu Dhabi Executive Gets ThreatsThe representative of Abu Dhabi company EABG, who arrived in Sofia Saturday to clear an international scandal about the construction of a Bulgarian Formula 1 track, has received not just racket demands but also threats.
The "Bulgarian F1-gate" erupted over the past week starting after the press office of the Bulgarian Economy Ministry reported incorrect information about a cooperation agreement between the Ministry and Abu Dhabi consortium Emirates Associated Business Group (EABG), allegedly for the construction of a Formula 1 track near Sofia.
It received a new spin on Saturday when EABG representative Anwar Badwan, whose position at the consortium is reported to be that of an "adviser", announced that as the Formula 1 scandal developed, he had received a racketeering email reading, "Send USD 94 M in order to iron out the misunderstandings.... |
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| Bulgarian Socialists Aggrieved by PM's Diplomatic Corps CommentThe opposition Socialist Party has reacted with criticism to comments by Prime Minister Boyko Borisov about the uselessness of some Bulgarian embassies and involvement of their staff with private business.
In an almost immediate statement provided to the BGNES agency, the Foreign Policy Council of the Bulgarian Socialist Party defines as "unacceptable" and "damaging" the Prime Minister's comments, in which he justified the apparently planned shutting of a number of Bulgarian diplomatic missions with the argument that many members of the diplomatic corps did not do their job properly and served their private interests abroad.
"These statements on part of the head of the Bulgarian government made in principle, without specific names and the proper evidence damage the prestige of the Bulgarian diplomats as a whole and practically shatter the legitimacy of the Bulgarian diplomatic corps before our partners," declared the Socialist Party.
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| Bulgaria Lose 2 Key Players before Crucial Montenegro MatchBulgaria's national football team has lost two of its key players to injuries two days before its second Euro 2012 qualification match against Montenegro.
The match is seen as being of crucial importance for preserving Bulgaria's chances to make it to Euro 2012 after the national team suffered a devastating 4:0 loss from England at Wembley on Friday in its first game from the qualification cycle.
The midfielder of the Russian FC Rostov Chavdar Yankov and right wingback of the Dutch team PSV Eindhoven Stanislav Manolev will not be able to play against Montenegro on Tuesday because of injuries they suffered during the national team's match against England.
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| Bulgarian PM: We Got Useless EmbassiesBulgarian Prime Minister Boyko Borisov has confirmed indirectly the reports about the closing of Bulgarian diplomatic missions abroad.
"We currently have embassies that we really don't know why we have them. There are employees of the Foreign Ministry working outside Bulgaria who are there only to favor their private business, and have not anything for our country," Borisov declared in the village of Voyvodinovo near Plovdiv on Sunday when asked about the rumors of shutting dozens of embassies.
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| NGOs Rise Against Bulgaria's Already Troubled Formula 1 ProjectAfter an international scandal involving an Abu Dhabi company, the project for construction of a Formula 1 racetrack near Sofia has run into further trouble facing opposition from several NGOs.
This time, however, the criticism has targeted the location of the future circuit proposed by the government – the site of the former air base near the village of Dobroslavtsi – as well as the economic feasibility of the project.
Several NGOs - the "New Territorial Organization Plan" initiative, "Citizens for Sofia", GEO Group, Eco-Association Vrabnitsa-Nadezhda – gave a news conference Sunday insisting that the Dobroslavtsi airbase is not the best place to build a Formula 1 track.
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| Borussia Loan Bulgarian Striker to Maccabi Tel AvivGerman Bundesliga team Borussia Dortmund has formally loaned Bulgarian striker Dimitar Rangelov to Maccabi Tel Aviv.
An announcement on the website of the Israeli club has made it clear that Rangelov has passed all tests successfully, and has signed a contract with Maccabi Tel Aviv.
The 27-year-old Bulgarian striker will play on loan for Maccabi for one season, and the Israeli club will have the right to purchase him from Borussia if they are satisfied with his performance.
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| Italy's Enel to Sell Bulgarian Power Plant in Fall 2010CEO of Enel SpA, Fulvio Conti, has said the Italian company will sell its stake in Bulgaria's Maritsa East 3 power plant in the fall of 2010.
Conti has made it clear, as cited by Bloomberg, that Enel plans to sell gas distribution assets in Spain by September, and its Bulgarian coal-fired power plant shortly after that.
Bloomberg reminds that Enel is selling assets to help reduce debt by EUR 45 B in 2010.... |
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| Suicide Bomber Wreaks Havoc in Russia's Dagestan, Kills 5 SoldiersFive Russian soldiers have been killed and more than 30 have been wounded in a car bomb attack in the Russian autonomous Republic of Dagestan.
The suicide bomber crashed an explosives-loaded car at a base used by a special motorcycle rifle brigade at Dalny, near the city of Buynaksk. The guards of the base managed to open fire against the car preventing it from penetrating the base and potentially causing many more casualties.
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| Bulgarian Rightists Slam Ruling Allies, Snub OppositionBulgaria's Borisov government of the GERB party has been criticized by both co-leaders of its ally, the rightist Blue Coalition, who have predicted a very rough economic situation in 2011.
One of the Blue co-chairs, the leader of the Democrats for Strong Bulgaria party Ivan Kostov, pointed out that the Bulgarian economy has been in recession for 20 months, and there were no indications the economic crisis was going away.
He believes the government's hopes to start registering positive economic growth by the end of 2010 will not materialize.
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| Bulgaria, Macedonia Remember Ohrid Lake Tragedy 1 Year LaterBulgaria and Macedonia have marked with memorial services the first year since the death of 15 Bulgarian tourists in the Ohrid Lake on September 5, 2010.
The 15 people drowned in the lake because of the sinking of the antiquated tourist boat Ilinden.
The tragedy was remembered with a memorial in the St.... |
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| Bulgarian Analyst: No Signs of Foreign Investments RecoveryThere are no indications that the flow of foreign direct investments to Bulgaria is on the increase, according to analyst Georgi Stoev from the Sofia-based consultancy Industry Watch.
Stoev pointed that in the first seven months of 2010 Bulgaria attracted 20 times smaller FDI that it did in the same period of 2009.
He told the Bulgarian National Radio he did not share the view the national economy had already seen the worst part of the economic crisis, and is recovering.
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| Bulgaria's Unemployment Down to 9.14% in AugustIn August 2010, Bulgaria had an unemployment rate of 9.14%, announced Labor Minister Totyu Mladenov.
The Minister pointed out on Sunday that after the Bulgarian unemployment peaked in February 2010 at 10.... |
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| Mafia Cash in on Lucrative EU Wind Farm HandoutsFrom The Guardian
By Nick Squires in Trapani, Sicily, and Nick Meo
An ill wind is blowing over Italy's green revolution, as the Mafia seek to capitalise on generous grants for renewable energy.
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| New Association Watches over Bulgarian Wine MakersA newly founded Association of Bulgarian Wine Producers aims at protecting the interests of small businesses in grape growing and wine making in Bulgaria.
The news was reported Saturday by the Bulgarian National Radio, BNR, citing the Chair of the Bulgarian Association of Grape Growers and Wine Producers, Bozhidar Boev, who spoke at the celebrations dedicated to the Day of Grapes and Harvest in the Danube city of Silistra.
According to the report, the new organization had already received an invitation to become a full-pledged member of the European Association of Wine Makers, based in Brussels.
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| Russian President Replaces Rosneft CEO - ReportRussian President Dmitri Medvedev had ordered the cabinet to nominate Eduard Khudaynatov for President of Rosneft, the Russian information agency RIA Novosti reports, citing a Kremlin spokesperson.
The spokesman informed Mevdev met with Khudaynatov Saturday. Khudaynatov, 50, and currently the company's First Deputy President is to succeed current CEO Sergey Bogdanchikov, who has headed the company since 1998.
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| France Sees Mass Protests against Roma DeportationNumerous protest rallies are taking place across France Saturday in protest at the cabinet's policy of deporting Roma people, BBC reports.
Anti-racism groups say least 138 demonstrations are planned, including a march through the capital Paris where over 30 000 are expected to attend. The organizer, the League of Human Rights, explained it wanted to counteract government "xenophobia" and the systematic abuse of Roma in France.
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| EABG Confirms Interest in Bulgarian F1 ProjectThe Abu Dhabi Company Emirates Associate Business Group (EABG) is a private not state-owned, and is interested in investments in Bulgaria, the company's representative Anwar Badwan stated Saturday.
Badwan, reported by some Bulgarian media as being an advisor to the company, arrived in Sofia to help settle the issue with EABG's alleged intentions to build a Formula 1 racetrack in the village of Dobroslavtsi near the capital. He confirmed the August 30 company visit had been made so that the Abu Dhabi businessmen can learn more about the project, along with other investment opportunities.
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| Racket Made EABG Consider Dropping Bulgarian F1 ProjectThe Abu Dhabi Company Emirates Associate Business Group (EABG) which declared and later recanted interest in financing the construction of a Formula 1 racetrack near Sofia complained of being racketeered.
A company representative, Anwar Badwan, who arrived in Bulgaria to help settle the issue is quoted by Darik radio saying EABG received an email reading: "Send USD 94 M in order to iron out the misunderstandings." The letter was signed by someone named Alex Tsakov.... |
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| Opposition Socialist Leader: Early Elections Loom in BulgariaThe leader of the Bulgarian Socialist Party (BSP), Sergey Stanishev, declared Saturday his forecast for early general elections.
Stanishev, who was also Bulgaria's Prime Minister during the previous cabinet term, spoke during a celebration in the village of Krasava in western Bulgaria dedicated to the 120th anniversary of the founding of the local communist organization.
The socialist leader informed party followers and supporters, gathered for the event, that the approval rate of the ruling, center-right Citizens for European Development of Bulgaria party (GERB) is going down fast, the discontent among common Bulgarians is rising, and mass protests are brewing for the fall.
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| SAS Craft Makes Emergency Landing in SofiaAn airplane of the Scandinavian carrier SAS made an emergency landing at the airport of the Bulgarian capital Sofia late Friday.
The airport authorities inform there are no injuries in the incident. The plane had 133 passengers on board.
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| Bulgarian Education Minister Vows Smooth School Year StartThe upcoming school year in Bulgaria will begin without problems and with the cooperation of all social partners of the Education Ministry, Minister Sergey Ignatov stated Saturday.
About 100 municipalities have declared readiness to introduce pre-school classes while pre-school education will become mandatory for all in 2012.
Ignatov said the education budget is limited – just BGN 7.... |
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| Bulgarian Economy Minister Upbeat about 2011 ForecastAn economic growth of 3.5% in 2011 is possible, according to Bulgaria's Economy and Energy Minister, Traicho Traikov.
Traikov spoke Saturday during his visit to the Black Sea capital Varna, saying the deficit is not that much of a problem as long as there is economic growth.
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| Opposition Demands Macedonian Top Cop OustingThe opposition in Macedonia declared Saturday they demand the resignation of Interior Minister, Gordana Jankulovska, over the Thursday triple murder in Skopje.
According to the Social-Democrat Union, one of those gunned down is Jankulovska's bodyguard, also having ties with the security services for the country's Prime Minister. The opposition says it is unacceptable the person in question was in the company of known illegal drug dealers, who also became victims of the crime.
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| Bulgaria's 'Killers' Involved in 5 Murders for HireThe special police operation codenamed "The Killers" is about to reveal five murder plots, Bulgaria's Interior Minister, Tsvetan Tsvetanov, announced Saturday.
The murders bear the same signature mark and crime profile, Tsvetanov said, adding there is enough evidence and witness testimony in the case.
The Minister further declared he was confident this time the evidence will be admitted in court, while the three individuals arrested in the sequel of operation "The Killers" are exactly where they belong – behind bars.
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| Reward Posted in Bulgaria's Dog Shelter Cruelty CaseA reward of BGN 1 000 for information in the recent monstrous murder of a 3-month-old puppy in the Bogrov dog shelter near Sofia was posted Saturday by the Four Paws and Animal Rescue Sofia Foundations.
The animal rights activists remind again the more and more frequent cases of animal cruelty in Bulgaria result from the lack of real punishment for the perpetrators.
On August 28, an unknown individual broke in the dog shelter near the village of Gorni Bogrov in the Sofia suburbs and savagely killed 3-month old pup Jessie.... |
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| Bulgaria's Gabrovo Hosts International Crafts FairThe eight annual international crafts fair opens Saturday at the ethnographic complex "Etara," near Bulgaria's central city of Gabrovo.
The fair includes in its agenda a conference titled "Past, Present and Future of Traditional Crafts."
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| Bulgaria's Top Diplomat Alarmed about Middle East TiesBulgaria's Foreign Affairs Minister, Nikolay Mladenov, hopes the scandal around the project to build a Formula 1 racetrack near Sofia would not have a negative influence on ties with Arab countries.
"Bulgaria is leading an active policy in the Middle East, and I hope this F1 situation would not reflect on our relations with other Arab countries," Mladenov said Saturday, pointing out the largest increase in Bulgaria's exports in the last 6 months has been precisely with the Middle East.
"I hope this situation will be settled very soon," the Minister said.
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| Powerful Earthquake Rattles New ZealandA 7.0-magnitude on the Richter scale has earthquake has struck New Zealand's South Island, BBC reports Saturday, citing the US Geological Survey.
The epicenter was 55km (35 miles) north-west of Christchurch, at a depth of 12 km (7.... |
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| 'Octopus' Makes New Attempt to Walk out of Bulgarian JailThe former agent of Bulgaria's National Agency for State Security, Aleksei Petrov, who was arrested on February 10, during a special police operation codenamed Octopus, had requested again to be freed from jail.
The news was reported Saturday by the Bulgarian news agency BTA citing sources from the Court.
Petrov is charged with a number of crimes, some committed 10 years ago.
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| Bulgaria Suffer Devastating 4:0 Loss from EnglandBulgaria suffered a tragic 4:0 loss as guests from England in their first match from the qualifications for Euro 2012.
The English scored their first goal as early as the 3rd minute when the striker of Tottenham Spurs Jermaine Defoe scored own first goal in the match.
Defoe scored again in the 60th and 85th minute wrapping up his hattrick.... |
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| Bulgarian President Mysteriously Certain of Bright Future for Belene NPPBulgaria has come very close to the construction of its second nuclear power plant in Belene, according to President Georgi Parvanov.
During his visit to the Danube town of Belene for the town holiday, Parvanov said he expected the acceleration of the construction of the troubled Belene Nuclear Power Plant, as cited by BTA.
"There are currently intensive negotiations under way between the partners for the construction of the Belene NPP," declared Parvanov making it clear he did not doubt the good future of the project.
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| Utter Confusion Reigns as Ministry Claims Abu Dhabi Firm Backs Bulgaria's F1 PlansBulgaria's Economy Ministry has declared that the Abu Dhabi company EABG is committed to the plans for building a Formula 1 circuit in the country despite a misunderstanding that led to an international scandal.
Thus, the Ministry has refuted the reports in the Bulgarian media that EABG (Emirates Associated Business Group), a private consortium uniting 67 companies from telecommunications, oil and gas, software and hardware, cargo trade, manufacturing, construction, real estate, declared it had no intention whatsoever to invest in Bulgaria's potential Formula 1 track. (Background details read below.... |
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| Bulgarian PM Hints Transport Minister InvestigatedBulgaria's Prime Minister Boyko Borisov has confirmed indirectly that there is an investigation against Transport Minister Alexander Tsvetkov over a public procurement tender.
"I am a distrustful person, and that's why I check everybody," Borisov declared Friday when asked to confirm or disprove the reports that the State National Security Agency DANS is investigating Tsvetkov over a project for the construction of a "rolling highway" terminal at the Dragoman train station.
According to the reports, the BGN 6 M deal for the construction of the Dragoman terminal should cost only BGN 2 M.
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| 'Ethnic' Scandal Leads to Ousting of Bulgarian Deputy MinisterBulgaria's Deputy Education Minister Milka Kodzhabashieva has lost her job as a result of a scandal involving regulations with questionable ethnic self-determination provisions.
The scandal developed out of a letter of instructions sent by Kodzhabashieva to the Educational Inspectorate in the southwestern Blagoevgrad District regarding the gathering of data about minority students in order to provide teachers for "minority" language classes.
In her letter, Kodzhabashieva recommended that school teachers should determine the ethnicity of the students for statistical purposes without asking the students themselves or their parents about their self-determination.
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| Russia, Turkey Fall Out over Samsun-Ceyhan Oil Pipeline ProjectRussia and Turkey will be starting their negotiations for the construction of the Samsun-Ceyhan oil pipeline from scratch because of disagreements, announced Russian company Transneft.
"[Turkey's] offer is to sign an inter-governmental agreement in which they are trying to get us to agree to economically unacceptable terms. Of course, we don't agree, and we are starting the new round of talks practically from scratch," declared the CEO of Transneft, one of the Russian partners in the Samsun-Ceyhan project, Nikolai Tokarev, as cited by RIA Novosti.
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| Bulgaria Hope for 1st Football Victory over EnglandBulgaria's national football team are starting their qualification for Euro 2012 with a match against England at London's Wembley Stadium at 8 pm GMT Friday .
Bulgaria have never won an official football match against England; in the eight official matches between the two teams so far, there have been four wins for England and four draws.
Bulgaria's coach Stanimir Stoilov will not be able to use his injured midfielders Blagoy Dimitrov and Velizar Dimitrov.... |
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| Romanian President Unyielding in Conflict with Russia over MoldovaRussia's expulsion of a senior Romanian diplomat for allegedly trying to coax confidential military documents from a Russian citizen is "without doubt" a reaction to Romania's support for the westernization of Moldova, said Romanian Foreign Minister Teodor Baconschi.
"We are not doing anything secretly [in backing Moldova]," said Romanian President Traian Basescu. Romania is simply looking out for its own security and energy interests and does not have animosity toward Russia, he said.
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| Bulgaria Opposition Slams EVN Stake in Hydro ProjectBulgaria's left-wing opposition have harshly criticized an agreement under which Austrian utility EVN acquired a majority stake in the hydro project on the Arda river, known as Gorna Arda.
"This is just one more favor that Minister Traicho Traikov is doing for his former employer," Petar Kurumbashev, MP from the left-wing Coalition for Bulgaria, fumed in parliament on Friday, referring to the energy and economy minister, who served as an executive at the Bulgarian arm of Austrian utility EVN before joining the center-right government.
"How comes a 40% stake in a EUR 500 M project is worth EUR 1,4 M? What 's the price at which Bulgaria's dominant state power utility NEK lost its majority stake in the project, which is a matter of national interest?," Kurumbashev asked.
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| Bulgarian PM Vows to Build 7 Highways in 2 TermsBulgaria's Prime Minister Boyko Borisov formally launched the construction of the last section of the Trakiya Highway, the first highway to run from Sofia to the Black Sea coast.
"There are 7 highway projects in Bulgaria. We will built three highways by the end of our first term (2013 – editor's note), and four highways in our next term," declared Borisov near Yambol at the groundbreaking ceremony of Lot 4, Trakiya's last section linking the city of Yambol and the town of Karnobat.
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| Bulgaria, Greece Presidents to Open Long-Awaited Border CrossingThe Presidents of Bulgaria and Greece, Georgi Parvanov and Karolos Papoulias, will be opening the fifth crossing point on the joint border on September 9.
The opening of the Ivaylovgrad-Kyprinos border crossing close to Bulgaria's Kardzhali and Greece's Alexandroupolis will be used to celebrate the 130th year since the establishment of diplomatic relations between Bulgaria and Greece, announced the Bulgarian Presidency.
The opening of the new border crossing was announced at the end of July at the first ever joint sitting of the Cabinets of Bulgaria and Greece.
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| Dozens Die in Pakistani Rally BlastAt least 42 people have died in a suicide bombing at a Shia Muslim rally in Quetta city, south-western Pakistan.
Many others were injured in the explosion at a Palestinian solidarity march in the Meezan Chowk area.
It was the second attack on Pakistan's Shia Muslim minority this week - bombs in Lahore on Wednesday kills dozens.
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| Bulgarian Transexual Plans Surgery to Look like Lady GagaPenio Daskalov, a 24-year-old Bulgarian transexual, has unexpectedly gained fame in the United States, after announcing plans for gender reassignment surgery to look just like his greatest idol Lady Gaga.
The e-zine Radar Online even phoned the aspiring singer and one-time reality star - he was on one of the editions of Big Brother Bulgaria - to have the news confirmed.
"Penio Daskalov, 24, plans to have a full [gener] change operation and is enlisting cosmetic surgeons to turn him into a double of Lady Gaga, which he thinks will help him launch a career in music, Radar Online has learned," Radar writes.
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| Bulgarian PM Pressures Turkey over Delayed HighwayBulgarian Prime Minister Boyko Borisov hardened his tone towards Turkey and Turkish investors after he found a new delay in the construction of the much problematic Lyulin Highway.
Carrying out his intention to inspect the work of the Turkish company Mapa Cengiz every 20 days, Borisov showed up on the construction site near Sofia Friday discovering a delay of 70 days, up from the 10-day delay established a couple of weeks ago.
The Bulgarian Prime Minister announced he had called his Turkish counterpart Recep Tayyip Erdogan urging him to contact Mapa Cengiz.... |
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| Bulgaria EconMin: No Idea Who Was Sheik in F1 BlunderBulgaria's Minister of Economy, Energy and Tourism, Traicho Traikov, stated Friday there could be a possible "misunderstanding" in the "letter of intent" to build the Formula 1 racetrack near Sofia.
The Minister, however, was firm the cabinet has not done anything that could provoke an international scandal, but added he would not commit to saying if the project would be realized.
He spoke hours after the news broke that the Abu Dhabi company Emirates Associated Business Group (EABG) refuted statements of Bulgarian authorities the group will invest in the project to build a Formula 1 racetrack.
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| Roma Freedom Stoking Political DebateEuronews
Technical meetings on the legality of expulsions of Roma from from France to Romania and Bulgaria are taking place in Brussels. Freedom of movement for EU citizens is under scrutiny.... |
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| Bulgaria Min Snubs Calls to Resign over Vulgar ExpletiveBulgaria's diaspora minister, Bozhidar Dimitrov, whose profane expletive at the critics of what are believed to be relics of John the Baptist prompted calls for his resignation, has made it clear he has no intention to quit.
"I will ask the prime minister to forgive me the moment I see him," Dimitrov said in an interview for 24 Hours daily, admitting that he does not plan to submit his resignation because he believes he can turn his ideas into reality.
Dimitrov, who was born in Sozopol, has been loudly proclaiming the authenticity of the discovery, but in an interview for a local daily he described archaeologists of a more skeptical bent as "fucking colleagues" who were simply jealous.... |
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| Ex Interior Minister: Bulgaria Has Never Been So Close to F1Bulgaria's former Interior Minister, and now Member of the Parliament from the Socialist Party, Rumen Petkov, declared Friday the plans to build a Formula 1 racetrack near Sofia with financing from Abu Dhabi are real.
Petkov said that Bulgaria had never been this close to realize the project, but someone made the mistake of misrepresenting the company and its owner. (The MP declined offering the name of the individual at fault.... |
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| Bulgaria to Fork out EUR 332 000 for 12 Strasbourg CasesThe European Court of Human Rights has ruled against the Bulgarian state in twelve out of fourteen cases, heard on Thursday, awarding to the applicants a total of EUR 332 000 in damages, costs and expenses.
The applicants in the two cases, which will cost the state the biggest amount of money, are the relatives of two young men, Hristo Bekirski and Marin Vlaev, born respectively in 1972 and 1967.
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| Bulgarian Economy Ministry Alters Press Release after F1 ScandalThe Ministry of Economy, Energy and Tourism, had amended its official press release from August 30, announcing plans to build a Formula 1 racetrack near Sofia with financing from Abu Dhabi.
The comparison was done by reporters from the Bulgarian daily Dnevnik hours after the news broke that the Abu Dhabi company Emirates Associated Business Group (EABG) refuted statements of Bulgarian authorities the group will invest in the project to build a Formula 1 racetrack.
The current Ministry information reads the company is a private consortium, and its representative, Mohammed Abdul Jalil al Blouki, is also the owner of the business.
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| Bulgarian Cabinet F1 Plans Stir Huge Scandal with Abu DhabiThe Abu Dhabi company Emirates Associated Business Group (EABG) refuted statements of Bulgarian authorities the group will invest in the project to build a Formula 1 racetrack.
The information was reported Friday by the Bulgarian daily "Sega" (Now), citing a company statement informing EABG had no intentions whatsoever to invest in any such endeavor and is so disappointed by the way the information got twisted around they would cancel all investment plans in Bulgaria all together.
The company's statement was sent to the media ("Sega") upon inquiry from reporters.... |
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| Bulgaria Coach Stoilov: We Came to Wembley to WinBulgaria coach Stanimir Stoilov has stated clearly he is hoping for a victory at Wembley on Friday evening as his side take on stressed-out England in a Euro 2012 qualifier.
"We will be happy not to lose but we are here to win," said Stoilov at his official press conference hours before the clash. "The pressure is a problem the players of England should deal with," he said.... |
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| Capello: Pressure Will Bring Out Our Best against BulgariaHours before England's European Championship qualifier against Bulgaria on Friday, the manager Fabio Capello is hoping that intense pressure will continue to bring out the best in him.
"No, this is not the worst situation I have been in. It has been the same two or three times.... |
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| US Domino's Pizza Arrives in BulgariaThe US-based pizza maker and distributor, Domino's Pizza is entering the Bulgarian market in October, the brand's representative for Bulgaria, Nikola Nikolov, told the Bulgarian daily Dnevnik.
The first restaurant will in the "Borovo" district in the capital Sofia, however the chain is planning to quickly expand to most major cities in the country, Nikolov said, but declined to offer more details.
Domino's Pizza specializes in home and office deliveries and belongs to the Bain Capital Investment Fund.... |
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| Brazil's Opposition Attack on Dilma Rousseff FailsDilma Rousseff, the Brazilian presidential candidate of Bulgarian origin, has been cleared after the opposition implicated her in a scandal over illegal access to banking details in an apparent bid to hurt her lead in opinion polls.
The opposition's Jose Serra accused Rousseff this week of being behind the illegal tapping of his daughter's financial records last September.
The country's top electoral court however turned down on Friday the opposition appeal to quash Rousseff's candidacy, saying evidence is insufficient.
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| US Jazz Legend Herbie Hancock to Delight Sofia in OctoberUS jazz Legend, Herbie Hancock, will perform in Bulgaria's capital Sofia on October 27, the organizers, Sofia Music Enterprises informed Friday.
Hancock's first ever concert on Bulgarian soil will take place at Hall 1 of the National Palace of Culture in downtown Sofia and is included in the program of the jazz festival Music Jam 2010.
The 70-years-old pianist, band leader and composer was born in Chicago.... |
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| Parliament Questions again Bulgarian Police BrutalityBulgaria's Interior Minister, Tsvetan Tsvetanov, will appear again Friday before the Members of the Parliament to give explanations regarding the police brutality incident in the southern city of Kardzhali.
A 20-year-old girl was injured at the end of July after policemen stormed an apartment and thrashed a family inside.
Tsvetanov is appearing on the request of 4 Members of the Parliament.
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| 2 New Anthrax Cases Reported in Northern BulgariaThe two men listed at the isolation ward of the hospital in the Danube city of Ruse have been infected with anthrax, the Regional Health Inspectorate reports.
The Head of the Inspectorate further said that this is the first anthrax case in the Ruse Region in the last thirty years.
The men, 70 and 32, were admitted in the beginning of the week with symptoms of anthrax.... |
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| Bulgaria's Tennis Star Pironkova out of US Open in DoublesThe Bulgarian top female tennis player Tsvetana Pironkova has dropped out in the first round in the doubles competition of the US Open Grand Slam championship.
On Thursday, the 22-year-old Bulgarian and her Greek partner Eleni Daniilidou were defeated by Yan Chan from Taiwan and China's number 1, Zheng Jie, with 0:2 sets (2:6, 1:6).
Despite dropping out Pironkova and Daniilidou will each receive USD 5 000.
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| Bad Year Looms for Bulgarian Wine ProducersBulgarian grape growers and wine makers expect prices to go down, even lower than last season, the TV channel bTV reports.
The price reduction will reflect the trend on the global markets, the increased expenses of Bulgarian producers to store and keep unsold wine, and their need of cash for the new crop.
In addition, this year's rain and hail have damaged much of the grapes and the crop will be 30% lower, while producers are afraid half of it would enter the gray economy.... |
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| Shooting Spree Rattles Popular Skopje NeighborhoodA man armed with a Kalashnikov automatic gun stormed a busy restaurant in downtown Skopje Thursday night and went on a shooting rampage.
Three people were killed at the Big fish dining place – a police officer, a close relative to the Chief of Security of the Macedonian Prime Minister, and an individual, who was known as a notorious underworld figure.
The Macedonian police is investigating the case and questioning the prime witness – a young woman, who was at the same table with the victims.
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| Bulgaria Receives US Recognition for Contribution to Iraq MissionBulgaria's Ambassador to the USA Elena Poptodorova has received a special call from the US State Department on the occasion of President Obama's declaration of the end of the combat mission in Iraq, the Bulgarian Embassy in DC told Novinite.com (Sofia News Agency).
US Deputy Assistant Secretary for European and Eurasian Affairs Pamela Quanrud has confirmed the American administration's high assessment of the Bulgarian soldiers' valor and courage in combat during their participation in the international peace-keeping mission in Iraq.
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