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11:15 Mon 01 Sep 2008
First expat BBQ meetings - updated
On Saturday September 6, the first expat BBQ meeting will be held in Sofia. Expat BBQ meetings will be held several times a month, throughout Bulgaria. On September 12 an expat BBQ meeting will take place in Akroza bistro in Balchik, on September 13 in the Zuu bar in Varna and read more
 
16:20 Fri 05 Sep 2008
When the availability of office spaces surpasses the demand, sometime in 2010/11, some of the investors will try to buy off politicians, banker Stoyan Alexandrov said in an interview for the 24 Chassa daily, answering a question whether the property bubble would soon pop. read more
 
 
 
15:53 Fri 05 Sep 2008
American Chase Buchanan will play against Bulgaria's young tennis star Grigor Dimitrov in the quarterfinals of 2008 US Open junior tennis tournament. On September 4 2008, Dimitrov made yet another step towards winning the second junior Grand Slam trophy in his career to add to read more
 
15:22 Fri 05 Sep 2008
By the end of 2008 contracts for 200 million euro will have been concluded under the European Union (EU) operational programme Regional Development, Deputy Minister of Regional Development and Public Works Iskra Mihailova said during a meeting in Rousse on September 4. After read more
 
 
 
 
 
13:51 Fri 05 Sep 2008
The construction of the first new-age bicycle lane started in Sofia on September 1, but the official launch date will be September 8 when all documents will be signed, Sofstroy infrastructure department manager Mitko Berberov told The Sofia Echo on September 5. The privatised, read more
 
12:58 Fri 05 Sep 2008
Frozen European Union money and competition from abroad have started to take their toll on Bulgaria's public road builders, the first-half 2008 reports of Trace Group Hold, Holding Putishta and Moststroy showed. In July, the European commission halted Bulgaria's 825 million read more
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Berbatov BonanzaAlex Bivol
Berbatov Bonanza
It was one of the summer moves that just about every football fan kept an eye on, even if the result seemed pre-ordained months ago – Bulgaria’s Dimitar Berbatov joining European champions Manchester United in a big-money move that would finally confirm beyond any doubt his read more
 
Medals for Markov murderAn investigation by Hristo Hristov, Dnevnik daily
Medals for Markov murder
New documents have confirmed that the operation that led to the 1978 murder of Bulgarian dissident and playwright Georgi Markov, code name “Wanderer”, in London was a topic of discussion between the KGB and the Bulgarian intelligence services that Bulgaria’s communist ruler read more
 
Romania’s corruption fightSpasena Baramova
Romania’s corruption fight
Corruption has always been a hot topic on the Balkans. Be it for the region’s communist background, economic backwardness or some other reason, bribery and graft have been present in the everyday life of the Balkan people to an extent incomprehensible to the average Westerner. read more
 
 
 
 
PROPERTY FOCUS: Hospitals: the next hot thing?Svetlana Guineva
In 2000, there were only 18 private healthcare facilities, with a capacity for 306 beds. By last year, however, Bulgaria had 71 new private hospitals and 3110 beds, Dnevnik daily reported. Despite the still rough-around-the-edges system of providing medical insurance to read more
 
TOURISM BAROMETER: Hand in handPetar Kostadinov
TOURISM BAROMETER: Hand in hand
It was not so long ago when Bulgaria and Romania were competing with each other to attract tourists to their respective Black Sea resorts. Newspapers on both sides of the border used to report how the two countries’ tourism industries were using advertising tricks to portray read more
 
 
The long return homeKapka Kassabova’s novel Street without a Name examines a childhood under communism, and an ever-present sense of being of elsewhereMagdalena Rahn
The long return home
It would be more exact, though, to say that while Street without a Name is something of a return to her past, Kapka Kassabova’s novel does not signal her own return to Bulgaria. She comes, regularly, every summer, for weeks or a month or so, because of family and friends here, read more
 
READING ROOM: On two euro a day and the goodness of othersMagdalena Rahn
READING ROOM: On two euro a day and the goodness of others
Meet Thierry, Julia, Wilfrid and Simon. And Sylvain, Flavie, Caroline and Killian. Six are from France, the other two are from Quebec. Answering to an internet-based call sent out by Valence, France, native Thierry Montaner in 2007, the eight who ended up forming the team of read more
 
FILM REVIEW: You Don’t Mess With the Zohan / Зохан: Стилист от запасаPavel Ivanov
FILM REVIEW: You Don’t Mess With the Zohan / Зохан: Стилист от запаса
In a summer season totally dominated by comic book-based and superhero movies, one thinks that, at least, Adam Sandler would offer some guilty-pleasure respite for movie-goers battered into submission by cool do-gooders in outrageous costumes performing impossible feats. Oddly read more
 
 
 
 
MY BULGARIA: Bulgarians or EuropeansPetar Kostadinov
MY BULGARIA: Bulgarians or Europeans
After weeks of discussions, the three major right-wing parties in opposition came up with a motto that is to unite Bulgarians against the Government. The magic line, according to the parties, is “I am a European”. One of the right-wing leaders said that by describing read more
 
ECO ECHO: Concrete talesElitsa Grancharova
ECO ECHO: Concrete tales
As it seems, the sand along the entire Bulgarian sea coast will soon be replaced by concrete. It is not enough that the famous local golden sands are not even bronzy any more, but more of a grey-brown at the places where any is left at all; it seems that the coastal zones of read more
 
LEGAL ALIEN: Manchurian CandidatesClive Leviev-Sawyer
LEGAL ALIEN: Manchurian Candidates
Anyone remember the scurrilous claim about Bill Clinton, at the time he first was a candidate for the presidency of the United States, that he was a Manchurian Candidate of the Soviet Union? The smear was based on the fact that while a Rhodes Scholar at Oxford, Clinton had read more
 
 
Trying for the World CupPetar Kostadinov
Trying for the World Cup
Bulgaria’s national football team will start its qualifying session for the 2010 World Cup in South Africa on September 6 with a historic game against Montenegro in Podgorica. This will be the first official game for Montenegro’s team, which has played a total of 10 friendlies read more
 
The Williams show
The Williams show
The Williams sisters will play yet another match against each other on September 5 in the semifinals of the 2008 US Open tennis tournament. The clash will happen exactly two months from the day Venus Williams, right, won the title at Wimbledon against her younger sister Serena read more
 
 
Architectural-Museum Reserve Tsarevets /Царевец/Holly Edwards
Architectural-Museum Reserve Tsarevets /Царевец/
Just as a trip to Athens would be incomplete without visiting the Acropolis, so the hike up to Tsarevets is an integral part of the Veliko Turnovo experience. The medieval fortress that watches over the city may not be as beautiful as its Greek counterpart, but it is steeped in read more
 
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