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The Bulgarian Parliament will vote at second reading on Wednesday for the approval of the loan which the state will grant for the equipment for the Belene nuclear power plant, ordered from Russia 8 years ago.

At this year's forum, much of the debate was centred on European integration, security and the future, and unique solutions. There were many views and positions on these key areas expressed by those representing our international community.

Bulgaria's nominee for Secretary General of the UN, Irina Bokova, remained 6th after the straw poll of the Security Council on Monday.

Bokova received a result of 6 (encourage) -7 (discourage) -3 (no opinion)by the 15 members of the Security Council.

The Portuguese candidate Antonio Guterres ranked 1st again with a score of 12-2-1.

A renovated medieval fortress was inaugurated in the old Bulgarian capital, Veliko Tarnovo, on Thursday, in a project funded by an Azerbaijani foundation.

The ironclad guarantees demanded by Russian President Vladimir Putin from the EU for the delivery of Russian gas along the bottom of the Black Sea for the Balkan gas hub will not be given soon.

The British website telegraph.co.uk has look at the candidates in the running for the post of the next secretary-general of the United Nations.

Ban Ki-moon's successor will have a difficult job, the article noted, and then analyzed the candidates' "visions" and passed their "verdicts."

Russian President Vladimir Putin has sent a letter, published in Wednesday's Kathimerini, thanking the Greek people for the warm reception he received during his two-day visit to Greece last Friday.

Russian President Vladimir Putin is in Greece on Friday for a visit crisis-hit Athens hopes will bring energy and trade deals, including progress on a new Russian pipeline.

Religious symbolism is also high on the agenda of the two-day trip, the Russian leader's first Greek visit in nearly a decade.

In a nearly four-hour long Q&A session with Russian citizens during the annual call-in event, the country’s President Vladimir Putin called on Russians to avoid traveling to Turkey for safety reasons.

The ‘worship’ of Russian President Vladimir Putin has reached new heights in a cafeteria in Siberia, where the owners have dedicated the whole establishment to the Russian leader.