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More than 500,000 fewer Russians visited Turkey in the first seven months of 2015 in comparison to the same period the year previously, tourism representatives have said, noting the greatest drop-off was seen in the southern hotspot of Antalya.

According to preliminary figures of the Bulgarian National Bank (BNB), which were released on Monday, the foreign direct investment in the country in the first half of the year amounted to EUR 799.6 M.

This represented an increase of EUR 49.7 M or 1.9 % compared to the first half of 2014.

Unlike Mark Twain?s experience with New York, returning to Washington D.C. after an absence of a mere six months in April I found quite of bit of moral decadence: Cannabis had been legalized. To my chagrin, only its consumption, but not its sale, was allowed.

Bulgaria plans to cut its military expenditures despite the call of NATO to increase the spending on defence.

According to a diplomatic source of RIA Novosti in Brussels, a total of seven NATO member countries are planning to decrease their military budgets.

Bulgarian Defence Minister Nikolay Nenchev said on Wednesday that the contracts with Poland on the repair of the MiG-29 fighter jets are expected to be finalised at the end of August.

This became clear from the minutes of the regular meeting of the Council of Ministers, when Bulgarian Prime Minister Boyko Borisov asked Nenchev on the progress of the negotiations.

The European Commission has this month approved 23 multiannual national programmes under the Asylum, Migration and Integration Fund (AMIF) and the Internal Security Fund (ISF). The total funding for the agreed programmes is approximately €2.4 billion, for the period 2014-2020.

Bulgaria, Lithuania, Romania and Latvia topped the list of number of amenable deaths in 2012, the EU's statistical body Eurostat has said.

According to the agency's latest publication, France, Spain, Italy and the Netherlands are the EU members which the lowest amenable mortality rates.

The inactivity rate of young people aged 15-24 in the EU-28 varied from 32.6% in the Netherlands and 38% in Denmark to nearly 73% in Bulgaria and Italy, according to Eurostat data for 2014.

Around 58% of the men and women in this age group, or 32,4 million people in the EU-28, were economically inactive during that time.

Russia vetoed a United Nations Security Council resolution on July 29 that sought to set up a special tribunal to try those responsible for shooting down flight MH17 over Ukraine.

British cabaret-punk trio The Tiger Lillies will be staging their ?Hamlet? show at the Zorlu Performance Art Center in Istanbul on Oct. 15, 16 and 17. 

The group?s show will be sponsored by the Danish Culture Institute, the Istanbul Culture and Art Foundation (?KSV) said in a press release.