Blagoevgrad

The planned resource is a total of BGN 1.3 million. "This is one of the activities that the MoEW and the Eco-Fund are launching to improve the living environment in the settlements.

Bulgaria's public radio broadcaster has seen audiences grow by 20 per cent after it was forced to play only old music, according to a new survey.

Up to 200 000 vehicles are expected to enter Sofia through Monday as a long weekend is coming to an end, police say.

It is after 12:00 local time (EET) that traffic is expected to become much more intense, Focus News Agency quotes the head of traffic police's Sofia unit as saying.

Bulgarian Prime Miniser Boyko Borisov assured on Sunday that the border with Greece has not been breached by migrants, as had been implied by some media, adding that the country managed to carry out one of the quickest readmission of refugees ever achieved in Europe.

Students from the American University in Bulgaria (AUBG) are going on a tour around Bulgaria to perform an adapted version of the Broadway musical Catch Me If You Can with nine performances in five Bulgarian cities - Blagoevgrad, Sofia, Varna, Ruse and Plovdiv.

Popular French singer Zaz will perform at the festival for francophone music Francofolies, which will be held in the Bulgarian city of Blagoevgrad between 17 and 18 June.

This will be the third concert of Zaz in Bulgaria after her performances in 2012 in Sofia and 2013 at the Spirit of Burgas.

A wolf fled the zoo in Blagoevgrad, Southwestern Bulgaria, news agencies report.

Visitors were immediately evacuated after staff members noticed the animal's cage was empty. Police and fire brigade teams were sent to the site.

This is the second incident with an animal escaping the zoo, after two bears did the same ten years ago.

The second edition of the 3D Art Festival took place in Bulgaria's southern town of Blagoevgrad. Artists will be showcasing their works in urban conditions.

According to the latest estimates of the Association of Bulgarian Villages, 33 536 people moved to live in the villages in the past year.

Thus, the positive trend for return to village life, which has been registered in the past four years, is maintained.

Unidentified vandals scrawled ?death to Turks? on the entrance of a religious affairs office in southwestern Bulgaria late on Feb. 22.

The slogan was marked on the mufti building in the city of Blagoevgrad.