Radomir

The protest of grain producers in Bulgaria continues. "Danube Bridge 2" near Vidin is expected to be blocked today.

Grain producers are protesting against the import of grain from Ukraine. Yesterday, representatives of the National Association of Grain Producers blocked the four border points on our border with Romania.

A tragic incident in the area of the Bulgarian village of Gigintsi.

Local media reports that a lightning strike took the lives of a man and a woman on the road to the Chernogorsk monastery on Saturday night. On their way home from the monastery, the couple decided to take shelter in a gazebo, mayor of the village Tsana Sandova told the media.

And contrary to expectations, voter turnout was not lower than usual, despite the pandemic, with long queues reported, particularly at polling stations abroad. By Monday afternoon, with 80 per cent of the ballots processed by the Central Election Commission, the notion of an election that could mark the upending of the status quo dominated by the GERB-BSP rivalry had become a reality.

Victoria Marinova, the 30-year-old TV host and administrative director of the regional TV channel TVN, was found murdered on Saturday near the Danube river bank in the northern Bulgarian town of Ruse, police said on Sunday.

An earthquake measuring 5 on the Richter scale has been registered in Macedonia's capital Skopje and other parts of the country, seismologists say.

It has also been felt across Western and Soutwhestern Bulgaria, including the capital Sofia, Blagoevgrad, and Radomir.

Chinese investors plan to put some EUR 270 M into the construction of luxury properties and a cargo airport in Bulgaria, Bloomberg has reported.

Residents of the western Bulgarian town of Radomir are voting Sunday in a referendum on gold mining in the region.

Locals are to answer the question of "Do you agree that the Radomir Municipality should not approve development plans for the extraction of sub-surface resources?" and the options are "yes" or "no," according to reports of TV channel News7.

Some additional BGN 3,308,011 will be allocated to Bulgaria's Pernik region for the recovery from the strongest earthquake in 100 years to shake the Sofia region in May 2012.

Over 1.3 million saplings will be planted on a territory of over 1800 decares on the territory of the Bulgarian Southwestern State Enterprise, according to a media statement of the entity.

The number of saplings has increased by 1/3 compared to 2013 and by 40% compared to 2012.