Новости за 21.09.2018

Plovdiv. The latest bird flu case affects 43,000 laying hens in a farm in the village of Trilistnik, regional food safety director Kamen Yankov told Focus Radio. Laboratory tests have confirmed an outbreak of the disease, identified as a primary outbreak. The measures taken to control and eradicate the disease include humane killing of all birds in the affected farm, disinfection and delineation of a 3-km protection area and a 10-km observation area around the site.

Sandanski. Four people have been charged over the attempted robbery in the Rozhen Monastery, Blagoevgrad Regional Prosecutor’s Office said. Two are adults, while the other two are 16 and 17 years old. They are charged with complicity in theft. A court hearing is scheduled for today. The prosecutor overseeing the investigation wants all four to stay in custody.

Heating and hot water in Sofia should rise by 8% from 1 October. This is recommended in an expert report published on the site of the Commission for Energy and Water Regulation.

Sofia. On the Bulgarian-Greek border, there is heavy truck traffic in both directions on Kulata checkpoint, according to Border Police data as of 8.00 am.
On the border with Turkey, there is heavy truck traffic from Bulgaria on Kapitan Andreevo and Lesovo.
Normal traffic was reported for all checkpoints on the borders with Serbia, Macedonia and Romania.

Sofia. Today it will be mostly sunny. There will be light wind, moderate in Eastern Bulgaria, from east-northeast. Maximum temperatures between 25°C and 30°C, in Sofia 26°C, Evgenia Egova, National Institute of Meteorology and Hydrology, told Focus News Agency.
The atmospheric pressure will decrease a little but will remain slightly above the average for September.

US Ambassador to Bulgaria, Eric Rubin, visited the headquarters of the ethnic Turkish party “Movement for Rights and Freedoms”, the party's press office said on 20th of September.

Bulgarian artists will illuninate the Berlin Brandenburg Gate in Berlin during the Festival of Lights. Marin Dimitrov and Marin Petkov have a lot of experience at festivals around the world, and now they are going to decorate the German capital. The theme of the Brandenburg Gate is to link cultures. This will be a multicultural show with different elements from different countries.

Velocity Minerals (TSXV:VLC) has completed a positive preliminary economic assessment (PEA) for the Rozino open pit gold project, earning a 70-percent stake in the Bulgaria project, the company announced on Monday (September 17).

Ever since the news broke of Ayan Mukherji bringing Ranbir Kapoor and Alia Bhatt together on screen, there has been a lot of excitement surrounding the film titled ‘Brahmastra’. Now having wrapped up it’s shooting schedule in Bulgaria, it’s Bhatt who seems to have become attached to the country.

(MENAFN - Trend News Agency ) Baku, Azerbaijan, Sept. 20

Trend:

Bulgaria shows great interest in the global projects being implemented by Azerbaijan.

This statement was made in Baku on Sept. 20 during the meeting between Azerbaijani Prime Minister Novruz Mammadov and Chairperson of the National Assembly of Bulgaria Tsveta Karayancheva, who is on a visit to the country to participate in the solemn event on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of the Azerbaijani parliament. Читать дальше...

The company’s new factory is the second greenfield investment of ABB Group in Petrich area and company’s fifth factory in Bulgaria.

Sofia. Government instability is a fact, but there is no serious alternative, former prime minister and professor of constitutional law Georgi Bliznashki told Focus Radio. Regarding tension between the president and the government and another presidential veto overturned, on amendments to the Administrative Procedure Code, Prof. Bliznashki said that the state has to provide quality and accessible justice to its citizens. “When fees get too high, they become unaffordable for ordinary citizens. Who else... Читать дальше...

Nis. The Bulgarian ossuary in the Ledena Stena area in Nis was defiled, Focus has reported. The walls were spray-painted with offensive scribbles and some slabs were broken.
This is an act of primitive nationalism, Bulgarian Consul General in Nis Edvin Sugarev commented for Focus News Agency.
The ossuary in Nis contains the remains of 2,015 Bulgarian soldiers and officers who died in the autumn of 1944 in Macedonia and Serbia during the World War II.

Sofia. Newly appointed Minister of Interior Mladen Marinov promised continuity in the work of the ministry. “I think that by focusing on human resources and on technological upgrade we will achieve good results,” he told reporters in Parliament after the voting, Focus News Agency reports. Asked who the new Secretary General of the Ministry of Interior would be, Marinov said it was not on the agenda now.

Sofia. In Bulgaria there is real industrial capacity, full mobility and full autonomy of illegal cigarette production, Prosecutor General Sotir Tsatsarov said at a meeting of the Parliament’s Monitoring Committee on the Revenue Agencies and Combating Parallel Economy and Smuggling, Focus News Agency reported.
“In Bulgaria there are modern machines, whole production lines, which are also mobile. They can be easily moved from one city to another or to another country,” he said. “The production is also fully autonomous... Читать дальше...

Varna. Despite the rainy summer, the revenue agency has registered an increase of over BGN 34 million in turnover alone for the northern Black Sea coast, Deputy Prime Minister Valeri Simeonov said in Varna after a meeting with institutions and tourism businesses, Focus Radio has reported. He described the tourist season as successful and pointed out a reduction in violations and crime such as thefts and intellectual property offences this summer. With regard to brands and intellectual property offences... Читать дальше...