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Chair of the Committee on Culture and Media and There Is Such a People Floor Leader Toshko Yordanov said on Sunday that both Bulgarian National Television (BNT) and Bulgarian National Radio (BNR) still receive sizeable subsidies and must make more disciplined spending choices.

Education and Science Minister Krasimir Valchev said on Sunday that taxi companies and volunteers stand ready to take Sofia’s school graduates to their matriculation exams if the city’s public-transport strike lasts through the exam days, 21 and 23 May.

Sofia's surface transport remained blocked for a fifth consecutive day Sunday as the employees are protesting for better pay, Sofia Municipality told the Bulgarian News Agency on Saturday. The metro is not affected. Drivers have blocked the depots

The mountain hiking conditions are good, the Mountain Rescue Service (MRS) with the Bulgarian Red Cross told BTA on Sunday.

More than 50,000 people have visited the Bulgarian Pavilion at World EXPO 2025 in Osaka, just over a month since its official opening on April 13. The statistics were shared with BTA by the Executive Agency for the Promotion of Small and Medium

The summer season in the coastal city of Varna was officially launched this evening with a vibrant concert performance featuring world-renowned kaval player Theodosii Spassov. The celebration, organized by Varna Municipality, took place under the motto “Varna – Where Time Flows Differently.”

The Mayor also stated that there will be no surface public transport over the weekend, but the metro will continue to operate.

The Bulgarian National Bank (BNB) has published a new series of questions and answers related to the country's accession to the eurozone, BNT said on Friday.

Poet Yordan Eftimov attended the launch of the April issue themed “Bulgaria at the World Expos” at BTA's MaxiM Hall on Sunday. "I think what we seem to have yet to develop is a culture of debate about our achievements. Right now we are still at that stage where we need to be evaluated from abroad to realize what we have," he said.

LIK magazine serves as a platform for both Bulgarian culture and intercultural communication, editor-in-chief Georgi Lozanov said during the launch of the April issue themed "Bulgaria and World Expos" at BTA’s MaxiM Hall on Sunday.

Over 60,000 tourists have visited the ancient city of Heraclea Sintica in the past year, project leader Katya Stoyanova said on Saturday. More than 12,000 arrived in the first five months of 2025 alone.

The Bulgarian Antarctic Institute (BAI) has signed cooperation agreements in the field of polar research with the National Center of Meteorology of the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and the Technical University of Crete, the BAI said on Saturday. The

The acting director of the Republican Institute for the Protection of Cultural Monuments in Serbia, Goran Vasic, has been arrested. Vasic had proposed to the Serbian government that the status of cultural monument of the two buildings of the General Staff of the former Yugoslav Army, partially destroyed during NATO bombings in 1999, be removed, Serbian media report.

The medieval rock monastery near Krepcha, Targovishte Region, draws visitors with its earliest known Cyrillic inscriptions. Addressing a local conference in Targovishte held as part of the EU-backed BTA project titled Europe on Balkans - Cohesion

The project on implementing the renewed priorities of the European Adult Learning Agenda is a good example of how European policies can be successfully implemented at the local level, with real benefits for residents, Todorka Taneva, Chief Secretary of the Targovishte Regional Administration, said during a local conference held here on Wednesday. The event was part of BTA’s Europe on Balkans: Cohesion Skills project.

Three schools and a kindergarten in Targovishte will be completely renovated with a total of BGN 13 million under the National Recovery and Resilience Plan, Petya Stoyanova, expert at Targovishte Municipality, said during a local conference held here on Wednesday. The event was part of BTA’s Europe on Balkans: Cohesion Skills project.