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Razgrad Hosts Yogurt Fair and Festival of Folk Traditions
July 22 (BTA) - A Yogurt Fair and a concurrent Festival of Folk Traditions and Craft Arts are taking place in Razgrad between July 22 and 24, said Tsvetana Benonova, Head of the Culture, Sport and Tourism Directorate at Razgrad Town Hall. For the 15th consecutive year Razgrad ...
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Environment Minister, BAS President Present Latest Edition of Bulgaria's Red Book of Endangered Species
July 17 (BTA) - The latest three-volume edition of Bulgaria's Red Book of endangered species was presented here on Friday by Environment and Water Minister Ivelina Vassileva and President of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences Acad. Stefan Vodenicharov. The Red Book includes 808...
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Seventy-eight Per Cent of Bulgarians Prefer to Drink Beer - Union of Brewers in Bulgaria
July 16 (BTA) - Beer is the preferred drink of 78 per cent of Bulgarians, the Union of Brewers in Bulgaria (UBB) said at its annual news conference Thursday. The organization noted that the beer made in Bulgaria is the most preferred despite the increasing import from EU and...
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685 Tortoises Reintroduced to Nature in Bulgaria
July 16 (BTA) - The Bulgarian Environment and Water Ministry and the Hungarian Agriculture's Ministry Biodiversity Directorate have jointly reintroduced 685 eastern Hermann's tortoises /Testudo hermannii boettgeri/ to the wild in Bulgaria, said the Environment Ministry in a ...
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Bronze Head of Thracian Ruler Seuthes III to Be Displayed at the Getty Museum in Los Angeles
July 16 (BTA) - The bronze head of Thracian ruler Seuthes III (from ca. 331 BC to ca. 300 BC), property of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences' National Institute of Archaeology, will be displayed at the J. Paul Getty Museum (the Getty Museum) in Los Angeles on July 28, the Bu...
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Environmentalists Sound Alarm over Effects of Hydropower Plants
July 14 (BTA) - Andrey Kovachev of the Balkans Wildlife Society told a BTA-hosted news conference on Tuesday that 220 hydropower plants are violating EU directives and measures recommended in 2010 to bring these facilities in line with the Habitats Directive have not been imp...
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Balkan Egyptian Vulture Population down 80% in Last 30 Years - Experts
July 8 (BTA) - In the last 30 years the Egyptian Vulture population in the Balkans has declined by 80 per cent, Stoyan Nikolov of the Bulgarian Society for Protection of Birds told journalists Wednesday. Nikolov heads "The Return of the Neophron" project and was speaking on t...
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11,462 Applications for Access to Information Submitted in 2014
July 7 (BTA) - A total of 11,462 applications for access to information were submitted in 2014, Access to Information Programme (AIP) Executive Director Gergana Zhouleva told a BTA-hosted news conference on Tuesday. The news conference was occasioned by the 15th anniversary o...
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Strong Breeding Season for Birds in Atanassovsko Lake
July 6 (BTA) - This year has seen a very good breeding season for birds in the protected Atanassovsko Lake near Bourgas on the southern Bulgarian Black Sea coast. This was established in the traditional bird monitoring carried out in July by the Bulgarian Society for Bird P...
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State Has Few Options to Help Cherry Growers against Low Purchase Price - Minister
July 3 (BTA) - A day after cherry growers from Kyustendil protested in front of the City Hall there against the low purchase price of the fruit, Bulgaria's Agriculture and Food Minister Dessislava Taneva said the State cannot do much and can only support them in crisis cond...
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Eight NATO Navies Take Part in Exercise Breeze 2015
July 3 (BTA) - Over 30 warships and auxiliary vessels manned by 1,700 naval personnel from eight NATO member countries are taking part in the Bulgarian-hosted Exercise Breeze 2015, the exercise commander, captain Kosta Andreev, said on Friday.
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Bulgaria Sets up Animal Police Service
July 2 (BTA) -Bulgaria has taken the first steps towards the establishment of an animal police service with an order signed by Interior Minister Roumyana Buchvarova on June 25 this year EPP/GERB MEP Emil Radev said at a briefing in Parliament Thursday.
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Ever More Organ Donors in Bulgaria
July 2 (BTA) - From a very low level of organ donation in the last two years now the number of Bulgarians who do so is increasing, the Director of the Executive Agency for Transplantation Dr Mariyana Simeonova, said in a BTA interview. According to data of the Executive Ag...
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Research and Development Spending Accounts for 0.25% of GDP in 2014
June 30 (BTA) - Public spending on research and development (R&D) in Bulgaria amounted to 206.6 million leva in 2014, increasing by 3.1 per cent compared with 2013, the National Statistical Institute reported on Tuesday. The absolute increase did not change the ratio of R&D ...
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Bulgarian National Team Wins Six Medals at 19th Junior Balkan Mathematical Olympiad
June 29 (BTA) - The Bulgarian national mathematics team won six medals at the 19th Junior Balkan Mathematical Olympiad in Belgrade, the Ministry of Education and Science said.
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Bulgaria Has Never Lost 80,000 People Annually to Natural Movement of Population, Even from Total Population Growth - St...
June 25 (BTA) - Bulgaria has never lost 80,000 people annually to natural movement of population, even from the total population growth, Corresponding Member Professor Atanas Atanassov said during an international scientific conference entitled, "Modern Statistics: New Challe...
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Master Jewellers Are Disappearing, Craftsmen Alert
June 24 (BTA) - Master jewelers are disappearing and the middle class is going with them, craftsmen told BTA. Jewellers are suffering from all the negative consequences of global processes and practices, as a result of which their craft is declining. They do not face the comp...
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Church Celebrates St. John's Nativity, Local Customs Add Herbs
June 24 (BTA) - The church celebrates the feast of the Nativity of St. John the Baptist on June 24, the day of the solstice, and the people celebrate the first day of summer as one of the charmed festivals of the year.
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Swiss-funded Roma Social Inclusion Project to Step on Early Childhood Education
June 23 (BTA) - Investment in early childhood education and integrated programmes focused on women and children will provide the basis for a project for social inclusion of Roma and other vulnerable groups which will be implemented in three municipalities in Bulgaria.
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WWF Calls for Updating National Action Plan for Sturgeon to Reflect Extinction
June 23 (BTA) - The international environment organization WWF calls for updating the national action plan for protection of the sturgeon in the Bulgarian sections of the Danube and the Black Sea. The new plan should reflect the extinction of some sturgeons in the Danube and...
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