News archive of October 2018

The famous Lithuanian painter Sergey Seletskiy visited Bulgaria with his exhibition "Point, line, spot" at the invitation of the Department of Fine Arts at the New Bulgarian University (NBU).

This has been stated by another deputy PM, and minister in charge of transport and construction, Zorana Mihajlovic.

"Once we do discuss it, we will present our stance," she told Prva TV on Wednesday, asked to comment on the goings-on in the National Assembly on Tuesday, when the accusation was made - and what the government's position was.

"Landscape in the Mist" by late Greek filmmaker Theo Angelopoulos has been voted among BBC Culture's 100 greatest foreign-language films.

The 1988 film, a coming-of-age story about two young souls in search of their father, won the 1988 Venice Film Festival Silver Lion.

Within the next two or three years, the German concern Festo, which currently has two locations in Bulgaria - in Sofia and Smolyan, will start building a new production base in our country, according to  Investor.bg

The company faces a serious challenge - finding the right infrastructure in the right place.

International Black Sea Day is celebrated today.

The date is related to the 1996 signing of the Strategic Action Plan for Reconstruction and Protection from the Governments of the Six Black Sea countries - Bulgaria, Georgia, Romania, Russia, Turkey and Ukraine. 

On this occasion, NDK volunteers make 25-meter fish, made of 800 plastic bags.

Jetlir Zuberaj, the head of the Kosovo foreign minister's cabinet, reacted in this way regarding Vucic's statement that during the ceremony of the opening of a new airport in Istanbul, the flag of Kosovo was removed at his request.

In his response to a question posed by Albanian language website koha.net, Zuberaj called Vucic "a criminal slanderer."

Grigor Dimitrov will start his tournament in Paris today (October 31st), reported bTV.

The Bulgarian tennis player is placed under number 9 and will start directly from the second. His rival will be the Roberto Bautista Agut (Spain).

The match between the two will start probably after 13:30 Bulgarian time.

A 29-year-old man in the southeastern province of Kahramanmaraş was detained by the police after footage showing him beating his wife in the street went viral on Oct. 31. 

A man in Turkey's Central Anatolian province of Kayseri was detained by police for "cleaning" the windshields of cars stopping at traffic lights using his bottled urine. 

A large number of people from Bulgarians and Greece take buses on weekends to travel to the western Turkish province of Edirne for shopping.