Sun, Nov 22 2009
Photo: Nadhezda Chipeva
Assen Dobranov: 'The company has already paid the leasing of 44 buses that were purchased, but in the first quarter of 2009 alone, we have amassed a loss exceeding 900 000 leva.
Staff in the capital may seem apathetic but bus drivers, at least, will go out of your way to make themselves happy.
The European Commission is taking Bulgaria to court for delays in providing Sofia with adequate waste disposal facilities.
James Warlick is the spouse of Mary Warlick, director of the office of Russian affairs at the US state department, who has been nominated to serve as ambassador to Serbia
Bulgaria’s Health Ministry announced on November 20 2009 that the flu epidemic declared two weeks earlier is at an end as rates of infection decline. The announcement coincides with reports of two deaths from A (H1N1) flu in Bulgaria.
Acting on allegations by Democrats for a Strong Bulgaria leader Ivan Kostov, prosecutors and Government officials are to probe deals by which Movement for Rights and Freedoms leader Ahmed Dogan acquired various properties.
Prosecutors allege that a deal agreed by the former defence minister caused losses of 12.9 million leva.
The man in the picture is brilliant.
Mark
you are right, but most Bulgarians would never admit that things are improving.
Maybe it's a good thing, but too much complaining can get you out of the real world very easily.
Sofia is cleaner, drivers are much, much more polite than they were 20 years a go - hell 5 years a go, while cars have multiplied.
One can walk on the sidewalks in the center, unlike just a few years ago when they were packed with parked cars, and drivers stop for pedestrians.
Cars are much nicer and newer, and don't all belong to mutras, as before, but to many ordinary people.
And yes, buses are newer and yes cleaner.
Perspective is important.
Public transport today is light years ahead of the nasty buses and trams that i rode on when I first visited Sofia nearly 20 years ago.
While there is still plenty of room for improvement, the simple fact is that Sofia is NEVER going to become Zurich so expectations have to stay within reason.
Animals in the UK have better transport than people in BG so keep complaining.
Little by little things are changing.
... who's that guy? he seems happy to be riding the bus;)