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The Plovdiv-Moscow line is the first regular international line since the Plovdiv airport opened in 1981.

The Bulgarian National Revenue Agency was investigating 261 football players and their relatives for hidden income, authorities said Tuesday.

Bulgarian Energy Minister Traicho Traikov is pictured here with his Russian counterpart Sergei Shmatko at the recent energy symposium held in Sofia in mid-December. Photo by BGNES Bulgaria Minister of Economy, Energy and Tourism, Traicho Traykov, is making an unexpected visit to Moscow to meet with his counterpart Sergei Shmatko, the ministry press ...

The special police operation code-named "The Impudent 2" resulted in further arrests of suspected members of a kidnap gang.

Bulgarian President Georgi Parvanov gives Athlete of the Year 2009 of Bulgaria award to the world champion Detelin Dalakliev , world champion of 54kg category in boxing, during the official ceremony under the patronage of Bulgarian President held at the National Theater Ivan Vazov in Sofia, Bulgaria, Dec.

Four more members of the high-profile kidnappers' gang were arrested by the Bulgarian police Tuesday morning in a continuation of the special operation codenamed "The Impudent". "The Impudent 2" operation is a follow-up of the one from December 17 when 25 members of the gang responsible for over a dozen abductions in Bulgaria in the last two years ...

Bulgaria Finance Minister Simeon Djankov stated that out of the allowed for BGN 500 M some BGN 400 M was handed down to the center-right GERB government by the previous governing Socialist-led tri-partite coalition.

In a joint effort by officers from several regional police departments, ten suspects had been arrested who were thought to have been involved in robberies at different site in the country, Interior Minister Tsvetan Tsvetanov said on December 20 2009.

There has been no preventive measures against organized crime on part of the Bulgarian state for the last 20 years, according to Prime Minister Boyko Borisov.

Bulgarian soldiers march during the official welcome ceremony at Sofia airport, Bulgaria on 17 December 2008.

Bulgarian police busted a criminal gang, allegedly responsible for a series of recent kidnappings, and arrested 23 of its members, the interior ministry said.

A new Bulgarian book entitled "Bulgaria-China. Culture Tourism" was presented in the Confucius Institute in Sofia on Thursday.

Until lately, Kosovo had a decade of padding to quarantine itself from the rawness, violence and fear that clasped to the coattails of liberation in 1999, infecting the "provisional government" months that followed, carrying their bacillus of internecine murder of alleged collaborators and of LDK members -- a good two years into the new decade .

Twenty-five people have been arrested as part of a nationwide police operation codenamed "The Insolents", the Interior Ministry said on December 17 2009.

Bulgarians dive into icy water as they compete to catch a cross thrown into a lake in Sofia, the capital, on Epiphany Day.

The Interior Ministry's press office earlier stated that the CCTV showed that the robbers entered the bank but failed to take any money.

In October the Sofia City Court rejected Friday the latest request of alleged crime boss Zlatomir Ivanov aka Baretata to be released from jail.

Armed thugs have robbed about SUD 1.6 M in four different crimes committed on Sunday and Monday, the Bulgarian Interior Ministry said.

Bulgarian Prime Minister Boyko Borisov welcomes EU permanent President-elect Herman Van Rompuy in Sofia, capital of Bulgaria, on Dec.

Bulgaria's prime minister says the country could accept one prisoner from Guantanamo following calls from Washington to take in detainees from the U.S. prison in Cuba.