Customs officers at the Danube Bridge border checkpointhave intercepted more than half a ton of Russian vodka and pharmaceuticals with a narcotic substance. The delivery was spotted by inspectors from the Department for Combatting Drug Trafficking during a check of a bus with Russian registration. The bus was traveling from Russia to Greece and had entered Bulgaria via the Danube Bridge border checkpoint at Giurgiu – Rousse. After a thorough check of the bus boxes of alcohol without excise bands, labeled with leading brands were found, as well as pharmaceuticals from two brands, however containing the narcotic substance phenobarbital.
Twenty-two Bulgarian students who spent the last school year at high schools across the United States, from Texas to Vermont, have returned home . The exchange was organised by the YES Bulgaria programme. Over the past few months, the teenagers not..
Tighter controls on main roads, tougher penalties for violators and improved traffic management during the summer months — these were the measures ordered by Bulgaria’s Prime Minister Rosen Zhelyazkov at the start of the Cabinet meeting. In..
The low level of the Danube River makes navigation in the Bulgarian section difficult. Two sandbars have formed, Ivelin Zanev, executive director of the Executive Agency for Exploration and Maintenance of the Danube River, told..
Sofia is hosting a trilateral meeting of the defence forces heads of Bulgaria, Romania and Turkey. The Ministry of Defence announced that, at the..
The Ministry of Transport has published for public discussion changes to the Regulation on Unmanned Aircraft Systems. The..
Security agencies in Bulgaria, DANS (State Agency for National Security) and GDBOP (General Directorate Combating Organized Crime), are carrying out an..
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