Tihomir Bezlov

The investigation into the murder of Alexei Petrov continues. The motives for the crime remain unclear.

The businessman and former beret Alexei Petrov was shot yesterday during a walk in a wooded area above the capital's "Dragalevtsi" district.

"A murder involving the target's family is not typical of Bulgarian crime. There is only one exception from Burgas". This is what the security expert Tihomir Bezlov told the National Television on the occasion of the shooting of Krasimir Kamenov - Karo yesterday in South Africa.

When Plamen Radomirsky, 68, had his first COVID vaccine dose in Canada early this year he was shocked to be told he'd have to wait two months for the second one. Keen to make sure he was 100% protected, he got on a plane for his native Bulgaria.

After ten minutes of queuing at a vaccination centre in Sofia, Radomirsky said, he had received his second dose.

In the last year, young Bulgarians have used cannabis most often, but heroin sends most people to clinics. This is shown in the annual report of the European Monitoring Center for Drugs and Drug Addiction, BNT reported.

For nearly ten years, gambling revenues in Bulgaria have doubled, and in just 2017 they have reached over BGN 3 billion. As the tax cuts are huge, the taxes paid in 2016 are only 177 million leva. Biggest profit is recorded by the game of scratching tickets.

It was the debilitation of Bulgarian Interior Ministry that led to Friday's tragedy in the town of Lyaskovets .

These comments were made for Bulgarian National Television by the expert Tihomir Bezlov from the Center for the Study of Democracy.