Two former ministers of energy – Rumen Ovcharov and Petar Dimitrov – have been charged over the project for the construction of a second nuclear power plant in Bulgaria at Belene, BNR’s Horizont channel learnt from the Specialized Criminal Court.
Two former executive directors of the National Electricity Company – Mardik Papazyan and Lyubomir Velkov - have also been charged. The principal charges are of mismanagement running to hundreds of millions of euro.
The name of former Energy Minister Delyan Dobrev, indicted on the same charges in 2016, is now missing from the indictment of the prosecutor’s office which is the result of an inquiry spanning almost 5 years.
On Thursday, the minimum temperatures in Bulgaria will be between minus 14 °C and minus 8°C. In Sofia, it will be around minus 12°C. The day will be sunny but frosty. The thermometer values in most places will be negative. Before noon, there will be..
With various events throughout the country Bulgarians are marking 152 years after the death of the Apostle of Bulgarian Freedom Vasil Levski. Today, at 6:00 p.m. a memorial ceremony in front of the monument to the Apostle of Freedom in Sofia takes..
BNB Governor Dimitar Radev will sign the request for an extraordinary convergence report on the fulfillment of the criteria for eurozone membership. This is clear from his response in an interview with BTA, in which Radev announced that the Central..
The latest technological solutions, products and projects in the field of agriculture and agro-industry will be presented at the "Agra..
The Vazrazhdane parliamentary party is organizing a protest on February 22 in front of the Bulgarian National Bank against Bulgaria's entry into the..
The agriculture sector in Bulgaria maintains its stability, providing employment to 6% of the population and forming about 4% of the country's GDP. This..
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