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2012-05-20
Incumbent Boris Tadic has lost the presidential elections in Serbia to his opponent, Tomislav Nikolic from the Serbian Progressive Party.
Nikolic has won 49.2% of the votes in the runoff of the Serbian presidential elections on Sunday vs....
2012-05-20
NATO Secretary-General Anders Fogh Rasmussen has insisted that "there will be no rush for the exits" in Afghanistan regardless of the intention of new French President Francois Hollande to withdraw France's troops from the ISAF.
"Our goal, our strategy, our timetable remain unchanged," Rasmussen said Sunday, as cited by international media.
Rasmussen said that new position does not indicate fresh cracks in the alliance....
2012-05-20
Bulgarian Prime Minister Boyko Borisov has ruled out any possibilities of holding early parliamentary elections.
Borisov thus snubbed a forecast made a day earlier by opposition ethnic Turkish party DPS (Movement for Rights and Freedoms) leader Ahmed Dogan, who said he could "smell" early elections in October-November 2012 as a result of a collapse of the Cabinet of Borisov and his center-right party GERB.
Dogan's prediction coincided with the holding of the 48th Congress of the opposition Bulgarian Socialist Party, which reelected its Chair and ex PM Sergey Stanishev with calls for toppling the GERB government.
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2012-05-20
The new concessionaire of Bulgaria's Gorubso Madan Mines, wealthy businessman Nikolay Valkanov, has created jobs for 60 workers from the troubled Lead and Zinc Complex (LZC; OTZK) in Bulgaria's Kardzhali.
This has been announced by Plamen Dimitrov, head of the Confederation of Independent Bulgarian Syndicates (KNSB), on Radio K2 on Sunday.
Dimitrov explained that Valkanov, who is the owner of Minstroy Holding, opened the new jobs at the request of Bulgarian Prime Minister Boyko Borisov.
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2012-05-20
Russian opposition activists and renowned cultural figures participated in a protest walk across Russia's second largest city St. Petersburg on Sunday.
Only about a hundred people, including famous musicians, artists, and also film director Alexander Sokurov, started their stroll across St....
2012-05-20
Bulgarian Deputy PM and Finance Minister Simeon Djankov has been elected chair of the Supervisory Board of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, the Bulgarian Finance Ministry announced.
Djankov, who got the new job at the annual meeting of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, has thus become the first government minister from the former communist bloc to be elected at a top position in the EBRD since the bank was established in 1991.
The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) uses the tools of investment to help build market economies and democracies in 30 countries from central Europe to central Asia.
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2012-05-20
Hollywood star Selena Gomez has been enchanted by Poli Genova, a Bulgarian singer who represented her country at the 2011 Eurovision Song Contest in Duesseldorf.
Selena Gomez, who is shooting The Getaway together with Ethan Hawke in Bulgaria's Sofia until May 25, attended a party at Sofia's Yalta Club Friday night during which Poli Genova and the LaTiDa band presented their new song "Pants Only".
The summer reggae song is said to have impressed Gomez who took a video of the performance with her mobile phone, Genova's PR consultants have announced.
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2012-05-20
Bulgaria is not going “to get in a conflict” with Romania over the natural gas deposits in the Black Sea, according to Bulgarian Economy, Energy, and Tourism Minister Delyan Dobrev.
Dobrev pointed out that no conflict is to emerge since both Bulgaria and Romania have natural gas deposits in their Black Sea economic zones, as cited by BNR Sunday.
Dobrev apparently referred to the dispute between Bulgaria and Romania over 17 square km of their economic zones in the Black Sea that was raised as a public issue by Romanian Foreign Minister Crisian Diaconescu in the spring of 2012.
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2012-05-20
Abdel Baset al-Megrahi, a former Libyan intelligence officer who convicted in the 1988 Lockerbie bombing, died Sunday.
The 60-year-old al-Megrahi, responsible for one of the most barbaric international terrorism acts of the regime of former Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi, has died nearly three years after he was released from a Scottish prison to the outrage of the relatives of the attack's 270 victims.
Scotland released Mr....
2012-05-20
An initiative committee has held a protest rally in Sofia demanding the resurrection of the project for the construction of a second Bulgarian nuclear power plant in the Danube town of Belene.
Sunday's rally in Sofia was organized by a committee called "I Don't Give Up on the Belene NPP, Do You?"
The protesters have insisted on the holding of a nation-wide referendum on the fate of the Belene Nuclear Power Plant project, which was killed by the rightist Cabinet of Prime Minister Boyko Borisov and the GERB party in March 2012, after years of uncertainty ever since the previous, Socialist-dominated Bulgarian government signed a construction contract with the Russian state corporation Atomstroyexport back in 2006.
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2012-05-20
Sergey Stanishev, the reelected leader of Bulgaria's main opposition formation, the left-wing Bulgarian Socialist Party, BSP, declared Sunday that the recent split in Socialist rang must be healed now.
Stanishev, who is also a former Prime Minister and current Chairman of the Party of European Socialists, PES, was reelected late Saturday evening to lead BSP.
The delegates of the party's 48th congress had to choose between him and Georgi Kadiev, former candidate for Mayor of Sofia....
2012-05-20
Bulgaria's Health Minister, Desislava Atanasova, launched Sunday the National Day of Sports in the capital Sofia's South Park.
The Minister spoke about the harmful effects of smoking and voiced satisfaction from the fact that fewer children are tempted by trying cigarettes.
The day continued with the mass participation of children of all ages in games of volleyball, basketball, badminton, martial arts, jogging and football at special fields set across the park....
2012-05-20
The Danish Member of the European Parliament, Dan Jorgensen, from the Group of the Progressive Alliance of Socialists and Democrats, has sent a letter to Bulgarian Prime Minister, Boyko Borisov, asking him to not allow the euthanasia of stray dogs.
The letter has been issued by the Intergroup on the Welfare and Conservation of Animals in the European Parliament. It declares serious interest in the stray dogs' problem in Bulgaria and the strong concern of the members of the European Parliament with the possibility of changes in the Animal Protection Act which will legitimize the useless mass destruction of homeless dogs in the country.
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2012-05-20
The southern Bulgarian town of Saedinenie is electing its mayor at run-off Sunday.
63.16% of the 5 500 voters cast a ballot at first round one week ago.
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2012-05-20
Facebook co-founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg has wed his long-time girlfriend Priscilla Chan.
The wedding was announced on the social network after Zuckerberg updated his status to "married."
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