| Top News 22:55 Sun 12 Oct 2008 A polling exercise by The Economist creating a global electoral college saw Greeks voting 91 per cent for Barack Obama and Macedonia among the three countries that chose John McCain. The outcome is an illustration of the sideshow that is the Balkans angle on the US presidential read more ![]() | ![]() | Top News 00:00 Sat 11 Oct 2008 For at least 28 years the ski resort on Vitosha, Aleko, has not changed. There have been winds and storms, snowfalls and meltings, and yet no one ever decided to replace the exhausted ski lifts or “make them safe”.
Now the company in charge for more than five years, Vitosha read more ![]() |
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| Top News 00:00 Sat 11 Oct 2008 There should be a line somewhere saying that public officials in Bulgaria must be appointed on condition that they don't have a brother. All developments in the country over the past four years suggest that having a sister is way more lucrative than having a brother or not read more ![]() | ![]() | 20:17 Sun 12 Oct 2008 Volen Siderov, leader of Bulgaria’s ultra-nationalist Ataka party, has sent condolences to the Alliance for the Future of Austria party after its leader Jorg Haider died in a high-speed car accident on October 11 2008. Siderov also queried whether it was an read more ![]() |
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| 18:53 Sun 12 Oct 2008 Bulgaria’s Economy Minister Petar Dimitrov and his immediate predecessor Roumen Ovcharov have issued separate warnings that the global financial crisis will affect Bulgaria’s economy, especially because 60 per cent of the country’s exports are to other European Union read more ![]() | ![]() | 17:14 Sun 12 Oct 2008 After a party leadership meeting of the Democrats for a Strong Bulgaria (DSB) on October 12, party leader Ivan Kostov told journalists that DSB would request the closure of the State Agency for National Security read more ![]() |
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![]() ![]() Tatyana Doncheva, one of the highest-profile politicians of the ruling Bulgarian Socialist Party (BSP), compared her role in the row over the State Agency for National Security (SANS) to a joke. On October 3, she told Bulgarian National Television a joke about the rabbit being read more ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() In the year or so that he has been here, Jose Luis Ruiz Comino has picked up a few phrases in Bulgarian, and mixes them at whim with English and his native madrileno Spanish, much in the way he chops and mixes and blends ingredients in the kitchen.
A chef by profession, a cook read more ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() In light of the October 11 world cup qualifier between Bulgaria and Italy bookmakers are pegging 13-5 for Bulgaria and Italy to draw, 9-1 for Bulgaria to win and 9-4 for Italy to win.
The odds are supported by the Bulgarian star player Dimitar Berbatov who on arriving at read more ![]() ![]() ![]() |
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