Geography of Bulgaria

A police officer was killed and three were wounded when a psychically unstable man opened fire in Bulgaria's town of Lyaskovets, near Veliko Tarnovo. 

Rallies in support of Russia will be held in two Bulgarian cities on Friday evening. 

Both are organised via the social network Facebook.

Two masked men have stolen an estimated BGN 80 000 from a bank office in the southeastern Bulgarian city of Yambol.

The office of Municipal Bank is located in the building of the Yambol Municipality in the city center, according to reports of the Bulgarian National Radio (BNR).

The attack happened at around 6.05 pm on Wednesday.

The Ruse history museum published a series of postcards with ancient Roman fortresses along the nowadays Bulgarian stretch of the Danube, with Roman recipes on the reverse side. 

Projects for some BGN 9M for national roads in the Bulgarian Black sea city of Burgas will be launched in 2014, the Minister of Regional Development Desislava Terzieva announced.

The E.Miroglio company, leader on the international textile market, will invest BGN 55M in its textile factories in Bulgaria's cities of Sliven, Yambol and Svishtov in 2014.

Part of the money will come from European programs, the owner of the enterprise Edoardo Miroglio announced.

Bulgarian Black Sea coast hotel owners have recorded an increase of Romanian tourists 2 months before Easter.

Many Romanian tourists prefer Bulgaria's north Black Sea coast resort of Balchik. Hotels there are almost full for the holidays with price rates remaining unchanged since last summer.