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Children's Choir from Rousse Wins First Prize in Italy
July 17 (BTA) - The Danube Waves choir has won the first prize at the 12th Guiseppe Zelioli festival of youth choirs in the Italian town of Lecco. The children's choir from Rousse performed 24 works of Eastern orthodox and Western European religious and polyphonic music. Some ...
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Sofia Opera Receives Annual Foreign Ministry Diplomatic Institute Award for Cultural Diplomacy
July 15 (BTA) - This year's Annual Honorary Award of the Diplomatic Institute with the Minister of Foreign Affairs for a Bulgarian institution goes to the Sofia Opera and Ballet, the institute said Friday. The award goes for popularizing Bulgaria's positive image through the inst...
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Bulgarian Pupils Win 6 Medals at International Mathematical Olympiad in Hong Kong
July 15 (BTA) - Bulgarian pupils won six medals at the 57th International Mathematical Olympiad in Hong Kong, the Leaders of the Natural Sciences Olympic Teams Association said Friday.
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Rhodope Bagpipes Launch Rozhen National Folklore Festival
July 15 (BTA) - A three-day Rozhen National Festival of Folklore and Livestock Breeding 2016 opened on the meadows near the Rozhen Pass in the Western Rhodope Mountains under the sound of hundreds of bagpipes.
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Bulgaria's Forest Area Has Increased by 300,000 ha in Past Decade
The forest area in Bulgaria has increased by 300,000 ha in the past ten years, the head of the Executive Forest Agency, Toni Krastev, told BTA in an interview. According to him, the increase is due to insufficient measurement and the spreading of forests to deserted neighbouring ...
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First Internet Address in Cyrillic Domain "bg" Registered
July 12 (BTA) - The first address in Imena.bg [Names.bg], an internationalized domain name register .bg, a top-level domain in Cyrillic and in Bulgarian, is already a reality, the Ministry of Transport and Telecommunication said Tuesday.
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Representatives of NGOs Establish Debtor Protection Association
July 12 (BTA) - Representatives of non-governmental organizations have established an association for protections of debtors. It will protect the rights of victims of private enforcement agents, Nikolai Kolev told a BTA-hosted news conference on Tuesday. The association will o...
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Former Finance Minister Says Budget 2017 Is More Important for Bulgaria Than Brexit
July 12 (BTA) - Brexit will not be a catastrophe for Europe, but it will be well for the Community to consider whether not to reduce some regulations and launch a policy with clear-cut ideas, former finance minister Hristina Voucheva said in an interview for BTA.
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Total Peach Harvest in Bulgaria Expected 25-30% Less This Year -Expert
July 7 (BTA) - The total peach harvest in Bulgaria is expected to be by 25-30 per cent less than last year's, the Chairman of the Bulgarian Peach Association in Sliven, Kosta Petrov, said in an interview for BTA. Nearly 70 per cent of the peach orchards of Southeast Bulgaria a...
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Bee Keepers in SW Bulgaria Protest over Spraying against Nodular Dermatitis
July 6 (BTA) - For two days in a row, bee keepers from Gotse Delchev (South Western Bulgaria) protested over the aerial spraying against nodular dermatitis in the region. On Tuesday they prevented the aircraft conducting the spraying from taking off, but on Wednesday the protesto...
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Rock Concert on Musala Peak Kicks Off Major Cleaning Campaign
July 6 (BTA) - A rock concert 40 m below Musala Peak in Mount Rila - the highest peak in the Balkan Peninsula, standing at 2,925 m, will mark the start of a major campaign to clean the area from construction waste, the organizers of the event: Tangra Mega Rock Radio and the Insti...
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Bio Agriculture on the Rise -Expert
June 29 (BTA) - Bio agriculture has been on the rise in recent years, Deputy Minister of Agriculture and Food Tsvetan Dimitrov said. He was speaking at Wednesday's opening of a seminar on the subject of "Prospects for the Promotion of Bio Agriculture in SE European Countries", hi...
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Bulgarian Math School Students Win Six Medals at Balkan Math Olympiad in Romania
June 28 (BTA) - Six Bulgarian students won medals at the 20th Balkan Youth Olympiad which was held in Romania. Teams from 19 countries took part in the competition where the Bulgarians won one gold, three silver and two bronze medals, the Bulgarian Science and Education Ministry ...
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Bulgarian Municipalities Absorbed EU 4,000 Mln-Plus under EU Programmes in 2007-2013
June 28 (BTA) - The Bulgarian municipalities absorbed more than 4,000 million euro during the first programming period of the EU Structural Funds (2007-2013), National Association of Municipalities in the Republic of Bulgaria (NAMRB) Executive Director Ginka Chavdarova said here...
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Cruise Ships along Danube River Increase Every Year
June 28 (BTA) - Cruise ships travelling along the Danube River increase every year. There are 170 of them at present, compared with just about 100 in the year 2000, according to data of the Danube Commission. The figures were unveiled by Ivan Zhekov, head of the River Monitoring ...
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Survey: 72% of Bulgarians Own Personal Computer
June 27 (BTA) - Seventy-two percent of Bulgarians own a personal computer, shows a survey commissioned by Intel in May among 1,000 respondents. Ninety-six per cent of Bulgarians aged 30-39 have a computer at home.
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Volunteers More Successful on Labour Market - Study
June 23 (BTA) - Volunteering plays a role for young people's success on the labour market, show the results of the first of its kind study conducted in Bulgaria on the correlation between volunteering and young people's professional success. The study was conducted between May...
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Cool Spring Delays Beginning of Tourist Season on Northern Coast
June 21 (BTA) - High-class hotels on the northern Black Sea coast are already fully booked up for July and August although the cool spring delayed the beginning of the season. Therefore, the total growth of tourists is expected around 5-7 per cent compared to last summer. "We wil...
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Data on Condition of Forest Areas Accessible Online
June 20 (BTA) - As from Monday, every Internet user can check the condition of Bulgaria's forest areas, the Executive Forest Agency said. The statistics published show the size of the forest areas and the types of forests (total for the country and broken down by ownership: state...
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Pregnant Bulgarian Woman Fights Court Battle to Be Able to Deliver at Home under Medical Supervision
June 15 (BTA) - A pregnant Bulgarian women is fighting a court battle to be able to deliver her baby at home under medical supervision, said the Bulgarian Helsinki Committee (BHC) Wednesday. She has taken her case to the European Court of Human Rights with legal assistance from ...
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