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Flights from Bulgaria’s Black Sea airports of Varna and Burgas to the Russian capital Moscow are increasing next summer season. The agreement was sealed by the Transport Ministries of the two countries. Since the spring of 2010, there have been seven flights a week on the Varna-Moscow line, which were increased to 14 in the [...]
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Cargo turnover at Bulgaria’s Black Sea port of Varna stood at a record-high 1.014 million tons in August, online trade publication maritime.bg reported. In January-August 2011, the freight traffic at Port Varna increased by 10% year-on-year, reaching BGN 5.5 million metric tons, the Bulgarian Transport Ministry announced. Grain and shipments from chemical plants based in [...]
Maja, a two-year old Polish girl from the city of Lublin, received a special welcome to Varna, as she became Varna airport’s one millionth passenger for 2011. The lucky girl, who is in Bulgaria for the first time, was welcomed by the airport’s director Dimitar Kostadinov and deputy director Plamen Hristov, who gave her a [...]
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This year’s edition of Love is Folly international film festival will have a very rich program, Rumyana Popova with the festival staff told FOCUS – Varna Radio. Within a week 57 films from 18 countries from three continents will be screened at the 19th edition of the festival. 13 of them are on the official [...]
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A peculiar tourist attraction – a 45-meter-long artificial dinosaur has arrived in Bulgaria’s Black Sea capital Varna. The curious are welcome to take a tour inside the giant Hollywood-manufactured beast and feel its heartbeat and breathing, as well as experience a variety of visual and sound effects. The “creature” is one of only seven existing [...]
Bulgaria’s Foreign Affairs Minister, Nikolay Mladenov, is going to marry his girlfriend Gergana on August 20th at the Euxinograd State Residence near Varna. The Bulgarian Standart daily further informs the couple has invited Prime Minister, Boyko Borisov, to become their best man, and he had accepted going as far as saying he might wear his [...]
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Englishmen, Japanese and Chinese are paying taxes in Varna. They have chosen the coastal city to live there and to make business because of the low tax rates in Bulgaria. 4,848 foreign citizens had paid their taxes in the regional office of the National Revenue Agency, officials from the agency announced. The English form the [...]
The owner of business and retail centre Varna Towers is negotiating its sale, Marin Zgurev, one of the company’s managers, told Dnevnik. Mr. Zgurev, however, declined to name the potential buyers, saying only that it was in talks with several investment funds for the asset. Currently, there is no deadline for finalising the deal because [...]
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Varna hosted its first American football tournament
20, Jul 2011
The Black Sea city of Varna hosted a two-day training camp and tournament of American football on July 16 and 17. The main organisers were volunteers from the Peace Corps and Varna municipality along with the visiting football team of Sofia Bears. The first day’s training saw a turnout of 80 enthusiastic players eager to [...]
The aquarium in the Bulgarian Black Sea capital Varna has given a name to its first octopus ever. The new inhabitant, a baby Octopus, (Octopus vulgaris), arrived in Varna last week. On Sunday, as the Varna Aquarium celebrated its holiday, it named its first octopus “Indy” – after the Indian Ocean where the octopus originates [...]