Vratsa, Bulgaria News

Four months after Bulgaria's new Government took office, the National Audit Office published the official statements of the assets of the new Cabinet ministers.

A sweeping operation executed by numerous organised crime police units surrounded and searched eight homes in the Vratsa village of Galiche early in the morning on November 26 2009, following a tip-off that weapons and ammunition caches were hidden in several homes, Bulgarian National Television reported on November 26 2009.

The leader of the ethnic Turkish Movement for Rights and Freedoms party, Ahmed Dogan, is among the official guests of the Fifth National Conference of the DSP youth organization.

The GERB party candidate, Yordanka Fandakova, won the race for Sofia Mayor, but with a "record" low turnout.

Officers from the police station in the north west Bulgarian village of Hairedin foiled an attempted robbery of a local branch of DSK Bank early on Wednesday.

The German "Plus" chain has opened on Tuesday its eighth Bulgarian retail outlet, in the town of Radnevo, close to Stara Zagora.

Bulgarian marketing solutions company Via Call has foreseen a threat to its business with the inauguration of a national electronic company register on Saturday.... TOP Elections 2009 November 15, 2009, Sunday Citizens are showing little interest in the six mayoral by-elections, which are held in Bulgaria on Sunday, including the capital Sofia, ...

The northwestern municipality of Vratsa has surprisingly recorded the lowest turnout among the six mayoral by-elections, held in Bulgaria on Sunday, official data shows.

Election day will start tomorrow at 06:00 am and will close at 19:00. Photo by Sofia Photo Agency Saturday is the day of reflection before local Mayor elections are held in Bulgaria's capital Sofia, Razlog, Pravets, Vratsa and the village of Beglezh in the Pleven District.

A dose of Pandemrix , a vaccine against the so called 'swine flu' H1N1 virus, and its 'boosting agent' ready for use.

A few months after Bulgaria approved changes to its Family Code to allow fast-track divorces, the Bulgarian Orthodox Church is planning to increase its fee for recognising a divorce in canon law.

Yordanka Fandakova is predicted to succeed Boyko Borisov as Mayor of Sofia. Photo by BGNES The campaign for the partial local elections to be held in some Bulgarian cities and towns in November 2009 is formally starting Tuesday.

"Sofia Is in Good Hands" is the campaign motto of Yordanka Fandakova who is predicted to succeed Boyko Borisov as Mayor of Sofia.

Education Minister Yordanka Fandukova is considered the favourite to win the mayoral elections in Sofia against Bulgarian Socialist Party candidate Georgi Kadiev Photo: Anelia Nikolova Campaigning in the November 15 2009 special mayoral elections in Sofia, Vratsa, Pravets, Razlog, Belgelzh village and Sofia's borough Pancherevo starts on October 20 ...

German diversified discount retail chain Penny Market is poised to open its first stores in the country by the end of 2009, country manager Vassil Fechko said on October 7, during the inauguration ceremony of the Penny Market logistics centre near Sofia, as quoted by Dnevnik daily.

Bulgarian police caught Sunday a criminal with a long criminal record over suspisions of double murder.

Interior Minister Tsvetan Tsvetanov has received and accepted the resignations of senior police officers in the town of Vratsa, northern Bulgaria, the Interior Ministry said on September 15 2009.

Interior Minister, Tsvetan Tsvetanov, stated Saturday that eight policemen from the traffic police and operational workers in the Byala Slatina department were arrested over racketeering accusations.

An investigation launched a month ago by the ministry's internal affairs department resulted in the arrest of the eight road police officers on September 11, he said.

Interior Minister, Tsvetan Tsvetanov, stated Saturday that the eight policemen were members of the traffic police and operational workers in the Byala Slatina department.