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The Bulgarian Energy Holding (BEH) has embarked on massive overhauls in the management of key state-owned energy companies.

The (BEH), an entity representing and managing state-owned assets in energy, has removed Jacklen Cohen as chair of the board of the Kozloduy Nuclear Power Plant (NPP).

European police body Europol has published a self-styled "Advent calendar" which features a profile of sought persons for each day leading up to Christmas Eve.

Sergey Filipov Georgiev, a 55-year-old Bulgarian National, corresponds to "December 02".

A court has ruled a two-year suspended sentence for Georgi Iliev, the pizza shop owner found guilty of the death of Yuliyan Georgiev, whose father heads Bulgaria's domestic security and counter-intelligence agency.

The Sofia City Court has found that Iliev failed to give way to Georgiev on April 02, 2014, as the latter was riding a motorcycle.

Bulgaria and Romania can partly trace the roots of their current tech boom to the communist years and "the romantic era of home computing", a recent article says.

At the time, Bulgaria and Romania's school curricula "were packed with math, electronics, and physics" due to the need for skilled professionals who could "reverse-engineer" Western technology.

Bulgarian football player Blagoy Georgiev was reportedly detained by Italian authorities for committing an act of vandalism in the Colosseum in Rome on Thursday.

Georgiev was caught on the spot as he was attempting to carve his name on one of the columns with a coin, daily Dnevnik reports.

''My main salary is BGN 2,400 and when the bonuses are added it goes up to BGN 2,800,'' stated Botevgrad mayor Georgi Georgiev in an interview for bTV Tuesday morning.

The Botevgrad Mayor Georgi Georgiev has been taken for interrogation at the local Prosecutor's Office earlier on Monday morning.

He is not arrested and he is not a suspect on any investigation. The measure was taken afrter several unsuccessful attempts on the part of the Botevgrad prosecution to call Georgiev in for questioning.

No charges have yet been pressed against Georgi Georgiev, mayor of the town of Botevgrad in Northwestern Bulgaria, the Sofia District Prosecutor's Office has said.

A probe has been launched into allegedly flawed public procurement.

On Monday morning Georgiev was detained by Sofia police officers who escorted him to the capital.

Bulgarian police arrested Georgi Georgiev, Mayor of the town of Botevgrad on Monday morning, media reports say.

Georgiev was escorted out of his apartment and taken to the Sofia District Prosecutor's Office, according to the website Dnevnik.bg.

The reasons for his detention are not yet clear.

For a fifth year in a row the Sofia Science Festival is being held in Bulgaria's capital, bringing togerher dozens of scientists and inspiring amateurs, teachers, kids and parents alike.