News archive of January 2023

The Turkish Foreign Ministry has criticized a decision of the United Nation's Security Council of extending the mandate of the global body's peacekeeping force in Cyprus (UNFICYP) for one year rather than six months as it extends every year, saying that it disregards Turkish Cyprus' will and insists on models that have already been tried and failed.

The 20 BGN banknotes from 2005 will be removed from circulation from February 1 and will no longer be legal tender. After this date, banknotes with a nominal value of BGN 20, 2005 issue, will be exchanged at the cash desks of the Bulgarian National Bank (BNB) at nominal value without limit of quantity, without fee and without deadline for exchange.

Israel supports Greece's sovereign rights and territorial integrity, the country's foreign minister, Eli Cohen, said after meeting his Greek counterpart Nikos Dendias in Jerusalem on Tuesday. 

Bulgaria is once again at the bottom of the European Union in the 2022 Corruption Index of the international anti-corruption organization Transparency International.

Our country is placed in 72nd place with an index of 43 points. In the last place among the countries of the European Union is Hungary with an index of 42 points.

BELGRADE - The Serbian government has tabled to MPs a Report on the Talks Process with Institutions of the Interim Self-Government Authorities in Pristina from September 1, 2022 to January 15, 2023, the Serbian parliament said on its official website.

As announced earlier, MPs will debate the report from February 2.

Here are the highlights of events related to the war in Ukraine over the past 24 hours:

The Russian army is intensifying its attacks at Bakhmut, the aim being to exhaust and destroy the garrison

Hundreds of taxi drivers gathered at central Athinon Avenue on Tuesday morning and began a motorcade to the Transport Ministry, north of downtown Athens, in protest at rising operation costs and unfair competition.

Ukrainian troops have left the first line of defense in the Zaporizhzhia region, says Vladimir Rogov, a member of the main council of administration of the Zaporizhzhia region.
Vladimir Rogov told RIA Novosti that the Ukrainians retreated to the pre-prepared second and third line positions.

Aleksi was accused of multiple rapes and sexual harassment of female students at his school.
It is expected that at today's hearing, the questioning of one of the injured parties, which began at the previous hearing, will be continued. Aleksi was met in front of the Palace building, as in the previous hearings, by activists with a banner reading "We believe in Milena Radulovi".

BELGRADE - The Serbian dinar's official median exchange rate against the euro is 117.3742 dinars for one euro on Tuesday, which is a slight change from Monday, the National Bank of Serbia said.

The dinar is steady against the euro m-o-m and up by 0.2 pct y-o-y.