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Bulgaria's Tsvetana Pironkova Starts with Victory in Dubai
Bulgaria's top female tennis player Tsvetana Pironkova won in the first round of the Dubai Duty Free Tennis Championship on Sunday.
Pironkova defeated the Czech Klara Koukalova with 6:3, 4:6, 6:3 in a game that lasted just over two hours, daily Dnevnik reports.
The Bulgarian recorded a fifth victory in seven encounters with her Czech opponent
Highway between Bulgaria's Ruse, Veliko Tarnovo to Be Finished by 2020
Bulgaria's Regional Development Minister Lilyana Pavlova has confirmed that the government is working on the construction of a major thoroughfare between the cities of Veliko Tarnovo and Ruse.
Pavlova told public broadcaster BNT that the new highway would help address traffic issues that have been arousing over the past years.
Bulgarian FM, PM Await Visit of Ukrainian FM
Ukrainian Foreign Minister Pavlo Klimkin is to arrive on an official visit to Bulgaria on Monday at the invitation of his Bulgarian counterpart Daniel Mitov.
Mitov and Klimkin are to discuss the latest developments in Ukraine, including the conditions of Bulgarians residing in the country and the efforts of the international community to deescalate the conflict.
Kristalina Georgieva: Bulgaria Is Having Unprecedented EU Funding at Disposal
European Commission Vice President for Budget and Human Resources, has been nominated in the "Politics" category of Novinite's 2014 Personalities in the News poll. Alongside all other nominees, she had been asked to answer three general questions before the poll closed.
Hours before the deadline, Novinite is publishing her answers.
New BGN 16 B Debt 'to Give Bulgaria Stability in Next Three Years' - FinMin
Bulgaria's move to take on new external borrowings will provide for its financial stability in the next three years, Finance Minister Vladislav Goranov has said.
In a Sunday interview for the Bulgarian National Radio, he has opined that, under the conditions of "super liquid markets" the act of piling up new debt could actually be carried out in favourable circumstances.
Bulgaria President, PM Clash over Chief of State Security Body
President Rosen Plevneliev has urged the replacement of Vladimir Pisanchev as head of Bulgaria's main counter-intelligence unit, the State Agency for National Security (DANS).
This follows Prime Minister Boyko Borisov's comments that no high-level reshuffles will be made either at DANS or the Interior Ministry to avoid speculation of "political purges."
Bulgaria FM Mitov: We Will Not Allow Fear to Overtake Europe
Bulgaria is strongly condemning the attacks in Copenhagen which took [two] lives and wounded innocent citizens, the Foreign Ministry in Sofia has said in a statement.
Minister Daniel Mitov has described the events of Saturday as "yet another terror act targeting one of our supreme values - freedom of speech."