Balkan Mountains

The number of Balkan tourists in Turkey has risen sharply as the economic crisis in the country makes it a cheaper destination than its rivals.

On the 15th of August, the Bulgarian Orthodox Church celebrates the Assumption of the Virgin Mary, reports BNT. 

The day, also known as the Dormition of the Holy Mother of God, is one of the twelve great feasts in the church calendar. Festive liturgies will be held in all temples across the country.

But he did not have to choose the two-day Balkan summit to resign, and his no-show at the meeting, some said, spoke volumes about his seeming indifference to a region in which Britain was once an influential player.

The Buzludzha Monument will receive a $ 185,000 grant from the American Getty Foundation. The aim is to prepare a plan for its conservation and future use. This is said in a publication on the site of the organization, which describes the building as a "masterpiece of civil engineering" and "an indispensable part of Bulgarian history".

Starting from this Saturday until July 16, protests against the damage done to the environment by hydro-power plants will be staged in several Balkan capitals, under the umbrella name Action Weeks for Balkan Rivers, a joint action of several environmental non-government organisations.

The Rish Pass is closed because of a TIR accident. The press center of the Ministry of Interior headquarters reported that the truck was hauling an estimated 200 pigs to a Burgas slaughterhouse.

A representative study by the German Friedrich Ebert Foundation, presented in Brussels, shows that young people in the Balkan countries are passionate supporters of the European Union. The head of the foundation's office in Sofia, Helene Cortlander, expressed concern that among the young Bulgarians the patriotic and nationalist sentiments are strongly occupied.

Additional traffic police patrols on the highways will monitor the traffic, reported NOVA TV. 

More than 280,000 Bulgarians will travel during the Easter holidays. Additional traffic police patrols on the highways will monitor the traffic.

Still mostly struggling to get into European Union, the Western Balkan states are eying Britain's messy struggle to get out with concern - weighing the likely consequences for their fragile region.

The central topic of Pisarri's book, which he developed out of his PhD thesis and which was originally published in Italian, is crimes against Serbian civilians in the part of the Kingdom of Serbia that was occupied by Bulgaria in 1915. The book will be issued in a Serbian translation this autumn.