... authorities have struck an agreement to increase the number of designated carriers serving the Burgas-Moscow-Burgas and Varna-Moscow-Varna routes to two from each country, the Federal Air Transportation Agency said Thursday, Interfax reported. Russia and Bulgaria also agreed to boost regular flights on these routes to 28 flights per week for the airlines of each side. The aviation authorities further assented to abolish the mandatory requirement for coordinating with the designated carriers of charter...

SOFIA, Bulgaria — U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton arrived in Bulgaria, where she will urge the country to break its energy dependence on Russia by diversifying its oil and gas supplies. U.S. officials say Clinton will use her visit to promote...

SOFIA, Bulgaria — Heavy snowfall and strong winds across Eastern Europe cut off hundreds of villages on Tuesday. Temperatures in some countries plummeted to nearly minus 40 degrees Celsius. The Black Sea ports of Varna and Burgas have been closed due to wind...

Bulgaria's Customs Service has presented LUKoil Neftokhim Burgas with protocols confirming the oil refinery's storage operations have been brought in line with the law on excise duties and the storage taxation regime, Interfax reported Tuesday. (MT) Rosatom...

... Project; Trans-Balkan Pipeline B.V. in connection with the construction and project financing of the Burgas-Alexandroupolus cross-border oil pipeline project; Atomstroyexport in connection with newly built nuclear power plants in Akkuyu, Turkey and Belene, Bulgaria; Taneko and Tatneft on the construction and financing of a large refinery and petrochemical complex in Nizhnekamsk, Tatarstan; Macquarie Renaissance Infrastructure Fund in connection with the tender for the concession of Samara airport in Russia...

... state-run company reduced deliveries to Europe by 10 percent for several days because of cold weather and is now fully delivering contracted volumes, RIA-Novosti reported, citing Kruglov. Supplies were reduced to Poland, Slovakia, Austria, Hungary, Bulgaria, Romania, Greece and Italy, European Commission spokeswoman Marlene Holzner told reporters in Brussels on Friday. She cited a 30 percent drop to Austria, a 24 percent reduction to Italy and an 8 percent decline to Poland. Holzner didn't elaborate...

... workers at the plant. He said he expected it to depart by the end of January “if everything goes smoothly” with the loading process. Mayak and Zheleznogorsk also take delivery of spent fuel from some countries, including Finland, Slovakia and Bulgaria, that Rosatom supplies fuel to. Russian legislation forbids the import of nuclear waste — defined as byproducts of the nuclear process that cannot be reused. 417712 179742

... promises, he came off looking like a windbag. Putin, however, always maintained an Olympian silence on issues of concern to the country. There were small exceptions, such as when he mentioned in passing the greed behind the small-time owner of the Bulgaria riverboat that capsized and took the lives of 122 passengers, or the way the Khromaya Loshad nightclub fire, which claimed 155 victims, reflected all the problems inherent in Russia's bureaucracy. But he took such liberties only when it was clearly...

... to a peak of more than 150,000 in 2008, and roughly 1 million foreign students have taken part in the past decade. The students come from around the world, with some of the top participating countries being Russia, Brazil, Ukraine, Thailand, Ireland, Bulgaria, Peru, Moldova and Poland. The proposed changes would require sponsors to "use particular prudence and caution when dealing with jobs that offer legitimate employment but also have been known to be associated with human trafficking, such...

... unconventional gas. But the torrid pace of shale development has also sparked a public backlash in the United States and elsewhere over fears that fracking pollutes groundwater and may cause earthquakes. Similar worries have led to a ban in France and Bulgaria and suspension in Britain. Fracking is also the subject of public debate in Germany. A European Union-commissioned study found in January that EU law was enough for now to regulate shale gas exploration, although changes might be needed once...

... world-known novelists, Ivan Bunin and Andrei Platonov, and the place of exile of poet Osip Mandelstam from 1934 to 1937. Helpful contact: Yelena Gudkova, head of City Hall’s international relations department (+7 473-253-0610). Sister cities: Sliven, Bulgaria; Brno, Czech Republic; Leon, Spain; Shallot, North Carolina, United States. VORONEZH — When President Dmitry Medvedev appeared on television last November to speak about Russia's answer to the U.S. missile defense system, he proudly announced...