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Veliko Tarnovo. Treasure hunters are looking for quick profits but do not realise that they are destroying invaluable cultural layers, Veliko Tarnovo Regional Museum of History Director Dr. Ivan Tsarov told Focus Radio. "Where people lived over the years, there are accumulations that we in archaeology call a cultural layer.

Sofia. President Rumen Radev decorated the Ambassador of Ukraine to Bulgaria, Mykola Baltazhy, with the Order of the Madara Horseman 1st Class for his contribution to strengthening and developing the bilateral relations, the president's press office said.

Sofia. The Ministry of Health will open the bids for the delivery of 400 emergency ambulances. The public opening of the offers will take place on 13 August 2018 at 11:00 am in the Ministry's building.

Sofia. By order of the Executive Director of the Bulgarian Food Safety Agency (BFSA), Dr. Damyan Iliev, the ban on staging and holding markets and exhibitions of birds across the country has been lifted as of today, 8 August 2018, said the BFSA's press office.

Sofia. We make a commitment to tighten the requirements for tour operators and agents with respect to insurance limits, for which we are already in contact with the Financial Supervision Commission, Minister of Tourism Nikolina Angelkova told Nova TV.

Sofia. The average insurable income in Bulgaria in June 2018 was BGN 875, said the press office of the National Social Security Institute. The average monthly insurable income for the country for the period from 01.07.2017 to 30.06.2018 was BGN 855.83.

Sofia. On 8 August, with the high temperatures expected, the Sofia Municipality will hand out mineral water from 01:30 pm, said the municipality press office. This will take place in the square at the St. Nedelya Church and at Ariana Lake at the Eagles' Bridge.

Vratsa. On August 7, the police in Byala Slatina seized 10,980 cigarettes without excise label from a house in the area of the Altimir village, the Interior Ministry's regional department in Vratsa said. The house has been used by a resident of Bukovlak, Pleven region. Speedy prosecution has been initiated.

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Dobrich. About 5,000 vehicles enter the country every day via Durankulak border checkpoint during the summer season, said Julian Minev, traffic police chief at the Ministry of Interior's regional department in Dobrich, a Focus Radiocorrespondent reported.

Veliko Tarnovo. 203,253 tourists visited the museum sites in Veliko Tarnovo in the first half of the year, compared to 202,895 visitors in the same period last year, Sonya Petrova, PR manager at the Regional Museum of History, told Focus Radio. "The increase was minimal, but here is the trend.