Новости за 21.12.2018

84% of Bulgarians will celebrate Christmas at home, 11% intend to visit relatives, and just 2% are to celebrate abroad, according to data from a poll conducted by the Exacta Research Group and quoted by the Bulgarian National Radio. 

Bulgaria has placed 46th in the Forbes ranking of the best countries for doing business in 2018, quoted by the Bulgarian National Radio. 

Six demonstrators were killed in eastern Sudan on Thursday, a local official said, during clashes with riot police on the second day of protests over the rising price of bread, AFP reported.

"Six were killed and a number of people were wounded" in the city of Al-Qadarif, lawmaker Al-Tayeb al-Amine Tah told local broadcaster Sudania 24 without providing further details.

The toll included a university student whose death had been reported earlier in the day.

 Thirteen miners died and 10 were injured after a fire caused by burning methane erupted in a black coal mine in the east of the Czech Republic, a spokesman said Friday, reported AFP

"In total we have 13 dead miners, 11 Polish and two Czech," Ivo Celechovsky, spokesman for the OKD mining company, told AFP.

The accident occurred at a depth of 880 metres (yards) at the CSM mine in the city of Karvina, about 300 kilometres (200 miles) east of Prague, on Thursday afternoon.

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Bulgarian Prime Minister Boyko Borissov will visit Belgrade to participate in a Quadrilateral Summit between Bulgaria, Greece, Romania and Serbia, the government press office said.

On 21 and 22 December, Prime Ministers Boyko Borissov, Alexis Tsipras and Viorica Dancila and Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic will discuss joint projects in the areas of transport, infrastructure and energy, economic cooperation, regional stability and integration of the countries in the region.

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 A major earthquake with a magnitude of 7.4 struck off Russia’s sparsely populated far east on Thursday, but officials said the threat of a tsunami had passed and no damage was reported.

The quake off Russia’s Kamchatka peninsula, which was initially measured at magnitude 7.8 by the United States Geological Survey (USGS), before being revised downwards, struck 82 km (50 miles) west of Nikolskoye at a depth of 9 km.

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Higher levels of fine particulate matter have been recorded in four quarters in the capital, according to the Sofia Municipality website. Air pollution has been registered in Hipodruma, Nadezhda, Pavlovo and Mladost. The most significant increase, three times the norm, was reported in Hipodruma. According to the European Air Quality Index, a deteriorated air quality has been recorded in other Bulgarian cities, including: Plovdiv, Pernik, Ruse, Vratsa, reports Focus News Agency. 

If parliamentary elections were held in mid-December, GERB would retain its first position with 23.5% of the votes, followed by the Socialists (BSP) with 20.8%. These numbers are close to those received in the October survey by Exacta, when GERB had an electoral share of 23.7%, and BSP - 20.1%. The distance between GERB and BSP has remained unchanged since the beginning of the year. These are the results of a national representative survey by Exacta Research Group conducted between 10 and 17 December 2018 with 1,000 adult Bulgarians... Читать дальше...

The maximum fine ski lift companies are hit by for breaking EU safety rules differs radically across the bloc, documents released at the request of EUobserver reveal.

Reading winger Adrian Popa will mark his two-year Royals anniversary in Bulgaria, with reigning champions Ludogorets Razgrad, report the BBC.

Bulgaria's interior ministry this week confirmed that police officers from Greece and Romania will join local law enforcement in joint patrols at the southwestern ski resort of Bansko, a top winter destination in the wider region, naftemporiki.grreports.

35-year-old Ivaylo Josifov was an active, healthy individual who thought he only had a case of tonsillitis when he went to the doctor recently. A chest X-ray, however, showed that he had a growth in the area of his fifth right rib. It was a congenital disease that could lead to the weakening of the chest and issues like difficulty breathing. Because of the risk that the growth could spread, the best option would be to remove the rib entirely and replace it with an implant. Josifov’s doctors decided... Читать дальше...

PIMK Ltd., one of the leading transport companies in Eastern Europe, has increased its sustainability credentials with the purchase of 50 new IVECO STRALIS NP 400HP trucks running on Compressed Natural Gas (CNG) to provide green logistics services to its partners.

The classic show, PETER PAN, is flying to Sofia Theatre in Bulgaria December 29th, 2018.

Bulgaria’s Chief Prosecutor Sotir Tsatsarov said that the amendments to the Penal Code, which President Rumen Radev vetoed, should be clarified. The most controversial of the changes is the so-called "secret arrest," in which, at the discretion of the prosecutor, a detained person can get a ban to inform his relatives within 48 hours about the arrest, reports BNT.

Bulgaria’s Head of State, President Rumen Radev, awarded Stara Planina Order, 1st Degree, to China’s ambassador to Bulgaria, H.E. Mr. Zhang Haizhou, reports BNT.

We have consultants with whom we have discussed the possibility of reducing part of the fine and returning it to the three companies, the head of the BBulgarian Energy Holding, Petyo Ivanov told BNT on 20th of December. We even have the opportunity to turn the decision to the European Court and we will probably refer to it and ask it to consider the case in substance, he added, reports BNT. 

The Bulgarian Red Cross (BRC) has brought 16,000 dropouts back to school over the last 10 years. This was stated by the chair of the organisation, Hristo Grigorov, who spoke to Focus Radio.

As of 6.00 am, there is heavy truck traffic to Bulgaria on Kalotina checkpoint and at exit on the borders with Greece, Turkey and Romania, Border Police said. On the border with Greece, there is considerable traffic on Kulata, while on the borders with Turkey and Romania – on Kapitan Andreevo, Lesovo and Danube Bridge Ruse checkpoints. Normal traffic on all checkpoints on the border with Macedonia.

 Today it will be mostly cloudy with fog in the morning in some places in the lowlands and valleys. Decreasing clouds in the afternoon from west. In East Bulgaria, light wind from southwest. Maximum temperatures between 3°C and 8°C in most of the country, along the Danube close to zero, in Sofia about 4°C, meteorologist Hristo Hristov, National Institute of Meteorology and Hydrology, told Focus News Agency.