News archive of April 2017

Neviana Vladinova has won the gold medal in the ribbon finals at the World Cup in Rhytmic Gymnastics in Baku, Azerbaijan.

The Bulgarian contestant reached the bronze in the ball finals and ranked fourth in the hoop and clubs.  

This is the new agreement between the lenders and Greece, totaling 128 pages, the terms of which will be included in the bills expected to be voted on in the Parliament. The government is planning a parliamentary crash test in the first ten days of May, so that the Eurogroup on May 22 will have at least a ratification of the staff level agreement.

The name of the off-duty police officer who killed Russian Ambassador to Turkey Andrey Karlov in December 2016 has appeared in the archives seized during April 26 raids on alleged "secret imams" of the Fethullahist Terror Organization (FETÖ) within the police forces. 

A delegation from the main opposition Republican People's Party (CHP) on April 28 visited jailed daily Cumhuriyet journalists and executives in Istanbul's Silivri Prison. 

CHP deputy leader Veli Ağbaba, Ankara lawmakers Necati Yılmaz and Şenal Sarıhan and Muğla deputy Nurettin Demir compiled a report with messages from the arrested journalists and executives after their visit. 

Turkish police early on April 30 detained six suspected militants of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) in the western coastal city of İzmir.

The suspects were allegedly planning an act of terror targeting the May 1 International Workers' Day celebrations.

Main opposition Republican People's Party (CHP) leader Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu has accused Turkey's High Election Board (YSK) of "stealing" votes in the April 16 constitutional amendment referendum, saying his party protected people's votes at the ballot boxes but could not foresee "thieving" by the YSK. 

According to the leader of the Confederation of Independent Trade Unions in Bulgaria (CITUB) Plamen Dimitrov, the system of social assistance must be reformed without a reduction of the financing; the poorest pensioners can receive a bonus through the pension system but through the social assistance system, according to BNR.

High-ranking US State Department official Hoyt Yee is expected during his visit to press for an end to the political stalemate in Macedonia and to the institutional blockade that has prevented the election of a new opposition-led government since the December elections.

OSLO - In spite of all present turbulences, the project of European unification will be successfully completed only after a full integration of the Western Balkan region, Serbian FM Ivica Dacic said in Oslo Thursday.

STRASBOURG - A Serbian parliamentary delegation on Thursday walked out of a Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) session in Strasbourg, France, in protest at a French court's decision to release Ramus Haradinaj, a former "Kosovo Liberation Army" commander charged by Serbia with war crimes.