Renowned Bulgarian mountain climber Boyan Petrov, who scaled his 8th 8,000 meter peak this year, a zoologist by profession working at the National Museum of Natural History in Sofia and environmentalist Andrey Kovachev from the Green Balkans, an organization working for the preservation of rare species and habitats in Bulgaria, were injured in a serious road accident in Kresna Gorge in southern Bulgaria yesterday. The two are in intensive care. Andrey Kovachev has a cerebral oedema. Boyan Petrov is in a medically-induced coma, with a head trauma, broken ribs and lung injuries. Petrov and Kovachev were working on an environmental roadkill-counting project along the E79 where the Struma motorway should pass.
On a proposal by the Sofia City Prosecutor’s Office and the Sofia Regional Prosecutor’s Office, acting Prosecutor General Borislav Sarafov has submitted a request to the 51 st National Assembly for lifting the immunity of 6 members of parliament –..
The second procedure for the election of a president of the Supreme Administrative Court has been terminated because there have been no nominations. Last chance for nominations for Supreme Administrative Court president The Supreme..
The National Assembly is holding a hearing of Minister of Agriculture and Food Georgi Tahov and Bulgarian Food Safety Director Svetlozar Patarinski over the sheep plague outbreak in Velingrad. The laboratory in Montpellier confirms the presence..
Vice President Iliana Iotova said in Pernik that she is optimistic about the formation of a regular cabinet. "Yesterday's talks..
Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán will visit Bulgaria this Friday 20 December, according to BGNES and a number of other Bulgarian media. The..
At its meeting today, the Bulgarian government adopted a Decision to temporarily introduce border control on the internal Bulgarian-Romanian border , as..
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