At 20.50 pm on June 30, Bulgaria’s Naval Forces defused a sea mine near the estuary of Kamchia River. The mine was sighted some 27 nautical miles east of the mouth of Kamchia River by the Liberian-flagged vessel Monterey.
A naval helicopter and a minesweeper were deployed at 3.30pm.
Bulgarian navy vessels and Border Police cutters identified the mine as an anchored Yam-type. A team of divers destroyed the mine with a controlled explosion.
The National Revenue Agency is inspecting currency exchange offices due to increased interest in buying euros . Within just one week, the exchange of Bulgarian leva into euros increased by 43%, the agency’s director, Rumen Spetsov, announced in..
Kiril Petkov announced at a briefing that he is taking political responsibility and resigning as co-chair of "We Continue the Change" (part of the PP-DB coalition, which has the second largest number of MPs in the National Assembly)..
A Japan-Bulgaria business forum on the topic of "Infrastructure, Energy and Digitalization" was held in Sofia. "Bulgaria has a whole palette of advantages. However, they are little known in Japan. Our task is to provide much clearer..
Another protest against the adoption of the euro took place in Sofia and other cities in Bulgaria on June 28. The protest in the capital Sofia..
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