Sofia

The construction of the first section of the Sofia Northern Speed Tangent (SNST) motorway starts Wednesday.

The SNST, also known as the Sofia Northern Bypass, is a 2x3 motorway shortcutting the Sofia Ring Road north of the city. It is to reduce congestion and traffic through the Sofia City center and improve urban mobility and safety.

Minister of Youth and Sports Krasen Kralev assured that Bulgaria is prepared to meet the challenges of hosting the 2015 men's European Volleyball Championship.

Kralev attended the drawing of lots for the final round of the tournament, which took place at the Ivan Vazov National Theatre in Sofia on Monday.

Publicly-traded companies with a total capitalization of over BGN 1.5 B will be affected by the sanctions adopted by Parliament for the ownership of agricultural land by non-EU companies and citizens, according to Ivan Takev, CEO of the Bulgarian Stock Exchange-Sofia (BSE-Sofia).

British comedian Terry Jones will attend this year's Sofia International Film Festival, starting March 5 in Bulgaria's capital Sofia.

Over the course of the past 19 years, the audience of the festival has had the opportunity to get to know better not only the Monty Python movies, but also the creative teams behind the scenes.

SOFIA - Serbia will be in the same pool of the 2015 Men's European Volleyball Championship preliminary round with Russia, Slovakia and Finland, a draw in Sofia has decided.

Over BGN 20 M in old debt on account of garbage collection and property taxes that have remained outstanding are owed by state-owned establishments in Bulgaria.

Interior and Defence ministries owe over BGN 1 M in debt accumulated over the past five years, as reported by Pressa daily.

Bosch Software Innovations, a wholly owned subsidiary of German technology giant Bosch, plans to acquire Cologne-based ProSyst Software AG, which has a research and development unit in Sofia.

Agreements to this effect were signed on February 13, 2015, according to a media statement of Bosch.

ProSyst employs some 110 associates in Cologne, Germany, and Sofia, Bulgaria.

Tickets for the most anticipated event of the year in Bansko - the Alpine Skiing World Cup scheduled for February 27 to March 1, have already started selling.

The tickets can be found both in the Bansko ticket center next to the cable cars depot and in Sofia's Max Sport store on Bulgaria Blvd 81, Standart news reported.

A first-of-a-kind meeting is due on Tuesday between Chief Prosecutor Sotir Tsatsarov, newly-elected cassation court head Lozan Panov and Justice Minister Hristo Ivanov in Sofia.

The projected route of Bulgaria's Hemus motorway in the area of Veliko Tarnovo will be changed to facilitate easier connection to a new motorway that would link the city with the Danube port of Ruse, at the border with Romania.