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2007/05/16

The Bulgarian scientists will try to prove the thesis, that the rock sacred places of Perperikon and Tatul in the Eastern Rodopi Mounatian are even more ancient and mystic than the Egyptian Pyramids.
This is going to happen during the largest archeological expedition in Bulgaria, near the town of Kardjali, the director of the excavations, Nikolay Ovcharov said.
Ovcharov reminded that the thesis was expressed these days by two Bulgarian female historians. According to them the first rock cuts...

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2007/05/16

The green variant for the trace of the future highway “Cherno More”, which is to connect Bourgas and Varna, was approved, the transport minister Petar Mutavchiev said.
The highway is planned to start from Vetren, pass through Rudnik Quarter, the villages of Laka, Kamenar, Kableshkovo, Tankovo and Kosharitsa, and to come out at Obzor Resort.

Transport connection between Hemus Highwy and Cherno More Highway is also planned. Along the whole highway there will be only one tunnel, which will be...

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2007/05/15

Museums in Bulgaria will take part in the European initiative The Long Night of Museums.
More that 60 museums and galleries in the country will show exhibitions for free on May 18 2007.

Photo exhibitions, musical performances and multimedia presentations will be part of the initiative.

The event is held to commemorate the international day of museums.

The Long Night of Museums was first organised in Berlin in January 1997 when museums stayed opened until late in the night. The event...

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2007/05/15

The committee made up of the airlines using the Sofia airport will launch a competitive procedure to select a second airport operator, said Sofia airport executive director Plamen Stanchev.

The committee will be incorporated in late May by Hemus Air, Bulgaria Air, Air France, the Austrian Airlines, Lufthansa and the low-cost carriers using the Sofia airport.

The move aims to satisfy the EU directive on the access to the groundhandling market at community airports whose traffic has been...

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2007/05/14

Elitsa Todorova and Stoyan Yankoulov, the drum duo, who grabbed the fifth spot at Eurovision final in Helsinki, promised they will stage a show to remember for their fans after they landed in Bulgaria Sunday evening.

"We will have a rest for about a week and then we plan to start working really hard on our performance as it should be absolutely perfect," Stundzhi said.

"It will be a show full of hidden messages, which everyone should decode for himself," Elitsa added.

The two finalists...

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2007/05/14

Prime Minister Sergey Stanishev broke ground for the construction of a second bridge over the Danube River, that will connect Bulgaria and Romania.

The bridge is to link the Bulgarian Danube port of Vidin to the Romanian city of Calafat by road and rail. It is a key element of a European transport corridor from the German city of Dresden to Istanbul in Turkey.

The event is organized by Bulgaria's Transport Ministry and the Spanish FCC Company, which will implement the project for...

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2007/05/12

Developers plan to shoehorn no less than 5 golf resorts between Shabla and Durankulak, a 20 km stretch on Bulgaria's northern Black Sea coastline.
The Shabla municipality said the projects will be developed by Bulgarian Golf Society and Oil and Gas Exploration and Production Co., both part of Varna-based economic conglomerate TIM, Litex Commerce, Bulgaria Hold and Rosinvest.
TIM is also developing a marina project in the Shabla bay area.
The developers are in a rush to secure planning...

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2007/05/11

Bulgaria's song Water, performed by Elitsa Todorova and Stoyan Yankoulov has qualified for the Eurovision final for the first time ever since the country started taking part in the contest.

Water will be performed under slot 21, a draw decided.
Bulgarians were kept on the edge for the song's name was the 8th drawn in the live show, and it seemed for a minute that the country would be left out for a third time.

Belarus, Macedonia, Slovenia, Hungary, Georgia, Latvia, Serbia, Turkey and...

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2007/05/10

Varna-based Bulgarian Properties, part of U.S. investment fund Global Management Ventures, said it has acquired a building in rough construction the center of Vidin, North-western Bulgaria, which will be developed into a mall-type property.
The completion of Mall Vidin will cost 6 mln levs. The shopping center should open for business in late 2007.
The 4-storey mall will have a total built-up area of 9,000 sq m, housing over 60 retail outlets.
The investment in a large-scale shopping center...

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2007/05/10

Bulgaria will open its first national tourism office in Russia’s capital Moscow, as part of the agreement between the countries for tourism co-operation.

Russia’s State Agency for Tourism will render its full assistance for the creation of the office, Focus news agency reported.

The office will present the Russians the opportunities for year-round tourism in Bulgaria in an attempt to attract more Russian tourists to the country.

The heads of Bulgaria and Russia’s agencies for tourism...

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