Renowned Bulgarian mountain climber Boyan Petrov, who scaled his 8th 8,000 meter peak this year, a zoologist by profession working at the National Museum of Natural History in Sofia and environmentalist Andrey Kovachev from the Green Balkans, an organization working for the preservation of rare species and habitats in Bulgaria, were injured in a serious road accident in Kresna Gorge in southern Bulgaria yesterday. The two are in intensive care. Andrey Kovachev has a cerebral oedema. Boyan Petrov is in a medically-induced coma, with a head trauma, broken ribs and lung injuries. Petrov and Kovachev were working on an environmental roadkill-counting project along the E79 where the Struma motorway should pass.
The Bulgaria Parliament will hear today the Minister of Defense Atanas Zapryanov and the Minister of Foreign Affairs Georg Georgiev about a "questionnaire" prepared by the US on topics related to Bulgaria's readiness to participate in a special military..
On Thursday, the minimum temperatures in Bulgaria will be between minus 14 °C and minus 8°C. In Sofia, it will be around minus 12°C. The day will be sunny but frosty. The thermometer values in most places will be negative. Before noon, there will be..
With various events throughout the country Bulgarians are marking 152 years after the death of the Apostle of Bulgarian Freedom Vasil Levski. Today, at 6:00 p.m. a memorial ceremony in front of the monument to the Apostle of Freedom in Sofia takes..
The Vazrazhdane parliamentary party is organizing a protest on February 22 in front of the Bulgarian National Bank against Bulgaria's entry into the..
The agriculture sector in Bulgaria maintains its stability, providing employment to 6% of the population and forming about 4% of the country's GDP. This..
A serious train crash involving a train owned by the Bulgarian company PIMK has occurred near Craiova, Romania. According to initial information, the..
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