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SOFIA (AFP) - Bulgaria on Thursday strengthened measures against hooliganism at football matches, after violence marred last season and saw two police officers injured in April.

CITUB urges for 12% higher budget wages next year. That makes about 1 billion leva more. "Up 800 million leva was the increase this year. In this sense, this percentage is not impossible. People in different agencies want a 10 to 20% increase in wages, so this percentage is averaged, "syndicate president, Plamen Dimitrov, told Nova TV.

17 700 euro, 170 leva and personal documents were stolen from a man traveling by train from Sofia to Lom. The report of the theft was filed by the victim himself.

BGN 20 million is the cost of street lighting in Sofia for this year, Deputy Mayor Evgeni Krusev announced during a check on street lighting on Simeonovsko Shose - from the section of GM "Blvd. Dimitrov " to 21st Century street, according to BGNews.

A new regulation on public order will regulate the noise in Sofia. It is expected that the text will be voted by the Sofia Municipal Council by the end of the month. The Ordinance prohibits noisy construction works from 22:00 in the evening until 8:00 in the morning and from 14:00 until 16:00.

The monument of the sailor will be built at almost 10 meters in Varna. This was revealed to Darik by Cap. Dimitar Dimitrov, Chairman of the Board of Directors of Maritime Destiny Foundation. Their is the initiative for a symbol of sailors in the sea capital.

More than 1.1 billion leva are the revenues from international tourism in Bulgaria in the first four months of this year. They grow by nearly 11% compared to January-April a year ago, according to data from the Bulgarian National Bank, quoted by the Ministry of Tourism.

On Monday July 2 will begin the renovations in the center of Sofia between Alexander Nevski squares, National Assembly, Tsar Osvoboditel boulevards and Vasil Levski, Crystal garden and Moskovska Street. The repairs will end next year.

The square surrounding the cathedral will be a completely pedestrian area.

The owner of a large Bulgarian dairy company was arrested for tax fraud worth at least BGN 900,000. According to unofficial information from the investigators arrested is the owner of "Elena" Stefan Vasilev.

The Special Prosecutor's Office announced that there has been request for blocking of his accounts.

920 leva will be the starting salary for teachers in Bulgaria from 1 January next year. This is written in the collective agreement between the Minister of Education and Trade Unions, reported the Trade Union Syndicate to Podkrepa Labor Union, quoted by the Bulgarian National Radio.