Petar Ivanov

Japan, South Korea and Qatar are countries that will also join the Three Seas initiative, because the initiative's priorities are good energy infrastructure and digital connectivity along the north-south axis in Central and Eastern Europe. 

The population of Bulgaria fell below 7 million. This happened exactly at 14:07:03 on 30.06.2018 and was noted in the world's population counter by the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs.

Russia's ambassador to Bosnia, Petar Ivanov, and Milorad Dodik, the Bosnian Serb President, have criticised the UK for "meddling" in the October general election campaign" after Britain's Defence Secretary, Gavin Williamson, recently announced that the UK will send 40 extra military personnel to counter any "malign external influence" and to ensure "free and fair" general elections in Bosnia.

Over the last two years, Russian investors have recorded losses of 52 millions of euros, mostly connected with the oil industry in Republika Srpska, Bosnia's Serb-dominated entity, data from Bosnia's Foreign Investment Promotion Agency show.

?he General Assembly of the Bulgarian Business Leaders Forum (BBLF) has elected four members of the Management Board at an annual meeting.

Petar Ivanov, Microsoft General Manager for Bulgaria and Macedonia, and Boryana Manolova, CEO of Siemens Bulgaria, are the new members of the BBLF Management Board.

A new CEO is taking over the state-owned gas supplier Bulgargaz, media reports suggest.

Petar Ivanov is to succeed Dafinka Yankova, who joined the Board of Directors in 2013, according to Capital Daily.

Bulgargaz has not yet confirmed or denied this, and the reshuffle cannot be seen on the supplier's website.

Only 61% of all votes at the October 5 early elections, will show true support for parties and their policies, said the deputy head of the Demographic Policies Centre, Petar Ivanov, at a news conference.

According to a study of the NGO, 14% of the votes will be bought, 22% will be corporate voting and 3% will be the votes of "dead souls" - deceased people, still on the voter lists.

Petar Ivanov, from the Center for Demographic Policy, says there is a huge discrepancy between the electoral roll and the size of the population that needs to be explained.

At least 850,000 Bulgarians listed in the electoral register do not have the right to vote, Professor Petar Ivanov from the Center for Demographic Policy claimed.

Although Bulgaria has been increasing innovations spending, it has failed to derive sufficient economic growth from that, according to Deputy Prime Minister Daniela Bobeva.