News archive of September 2015

The top researchers at the excavation at the Kasta Tumulus site in northern Greece, better known as Amphipolis, on Wednesday pointed directly to a massive monument commissioned by Alexander the Great for Hephaestion, one of his closest associates and a childhood friend.

Tanya Raykovska, Deputy Chair of Bulgaria's Supreme Court of Cassation (VKS), has been elected Judge at the Constitutional Court (KS).

Raykovska won a run-off with Boyan Magdalinchev, Deputy Chair of the Supreme Administrative Court (VAS).

Anyone thinking of any solution to the Syrian conflict must think of a Syria without Bashar al-Assad, Turkish PM Ahmet Davuto?lu said Sept. 30, calling the embattled president "a vicious tyrant".

A special unit tasked with processing flight reservation data is to be established at Bulgaria's State Agency for National Security (DANS), according to a set of legal amendments proposed by the government.

The changes to the State Agency for National Security Act are to be submitted to Parliament.

An official photograph of hosts Barack and Michelle Obama receiving Greek PM Alexis Tsipras and his companion Betty Baziana was provided to the press on Wednesday, an image that Tsipras, in fact, posted on his Twitter account.

According to reports from the scene, Tsipras told reporters that he was impressed by the FLOTUS’ … height — something seen from the photograph.

Dimitar Radev, Governor of the Bulgarian National Bank (BNB), acting in his capacity as Governor of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) for Bulgaria, has expressed the country's willingness to adopt the IMF's Special Data Dissemination Standard Plus.

Main opposition New Democracy on Wednesday took straight aim at a law passed by the leftist SYRIZA government that allows rogue civil servants and professionals employed in the narrow or wider public to return to their posts while their cases are before the courts or disciplinary boards.

Russia has conducted its first airstrike against ISIS in Syria, a Russian Defense Ministry spokesman said Wednesday.
The airstrike targeted ISIS military equipment, communications centers, vehicles and ammunition, Maj. Gen. Igor Konashenkov said, as part of pinpoint strikes against ISIS ground targets.

Serbian Interior Minister Nebojsa Stefanovic and Aleksandar Djordjevic, head of the Serbian Security Agency, BIA, denied on Wednesday any involvement in unlawful wiretapping, following claims by opposition leader Bojan Pajtic that his telephone calls had been intercepted.

Stefanovic said he was ready to resign if there is evidence that police had wiretapped the opposition leader.

Stefanovic denies police or security agency wiretapped Pajtic

No state institution, including the MUP and the BIA have ever wiretapped Bojan Pajtic or Lidija Udovicki, says Nebojsa Stefanovic.