Sofia News

Bulgaria has made the announcement that aliens have been around us for quite a while and are keeping watch on us all the time. He claims that he is in regular contact with ETs (extra terrestrials). Lachezar Fillpov, the Deputy...

Last winter's gas crisis, when supplies arriving via Ukraine were turned off, is a sharp reminder of how seriously we should take that challenge. And, if Vladimir Putin's recent remark on Ukraine's apparently unpaid gas bills is anything to go...

He added that it is likely that there will be changes in one of the BEH’s Group, the National Electric Company (NEK). The desicion to keep the BEH in existence is a dramatic turnaround since late August and September when...

Bulgaria's President, Georgi Parvanov, said Sunday the Sofia Mayor Elections campaign had been lackluster and devoid of real emotion and clash of ideas. Parvanov voted shortly before 10 am saying he cast a vote for an more orderly Sofia with...

The Italian Prime Minister, Silvio Berlusconi, and his Bulgarian counterpart, Boyko Borisov, held their first Sofia meeting Thursday evening discussing energy projects and politics. The meeting lasted only 30 minutes, but the talks are to continue later in the evening...

Bulgaria's Health Ministry announced Friday afternoon the declaration of a state of national swine flu epidemic over the rising number of patients with A(H1N1). The Health Ministry made the decision based on the grounds that the number of people with...

Crime November 13, 2009, Friday Mario Nikolov...The trial was halted after a lawyer of one of the defendants failed to turn up in court due to illness...The prosecutors demanded that the witnesses, who are in Bulgaria, but failed to appear...

The rate of unemployment in Bulgaria is set to rise to more than 10% by the end of 2009. This has been predicted Tuesday by the Director of the National Employment Agency, Rositsa Stelyanova, as cited by BNR. It is...

The “Podkrepa” union has organized a protest by over 200 workers from across the country who met in central Sofia before marching towards the Ministry of Economy, Energy, and Tourism. Podkrepa union leader Lyudmil Pavlov said Monday; “How can the...