Gorna Oryahovitsa

The Regional Prosecution of Gorna Oryahovitsa has launched a probe into reports of Bulgarian firearms and ammunition being found in a warehouse in Aleppo in northern Syria.

The Bulgarian government awarded the concession for the airport in the town of Gorna Oryahovitsa to the sole participant in the procedure - Civilian Airport Gorna Oryahovitsa Consortium.

This became clear after the regular meeting of the Council of Ministers on Wednesday, the government's press service informs.

A US company has shown interest in becoming a concessionaire of the airport in Bulgaria's Gorna Oryahovitsa, according to Transport Minister Ivaylo Moskovski.

Bulgarian Transport Minister Ivaylo Moskovski has assured that no provatizati0on procedure is underway for national postal operator Bulgarian Posts.

Hundreds of citizens participated in protests against the suspension of trains and the shortening of railway routes, which the Transport Ministry has been implementing since the beginning of the year.

Despite the promise that no more railway services will be cancelled since February 1, the discontent across Bulgaria continued on Saturday, private bTV station reports.

The subsidy cut for the Bulgarian State Railways (BDZ) company will be revoked, with the Finance Ministry allocating the much-needed BGN 40 M to the state-owned railway carrier, according to a decision of the parliamentary transport committee.

Two Syrian children were detained at a gas station in Bulgaria's town of Veliko Tarnovo.

The boys tried to escape after illegally crossing the Turkish border, private TV station TV 7 reported.

They traveled in a truck with Bulgarian registration carrying pallets.

The children have been taken to an accommodation center in Gorna Oryahovitsa.

Power supply to flood-hit northeastern Bulgaria is returning to normal, according to Radoslav Tsvetkov from power distributor Energo-Pro.

In a Friday interview for the Bulgarian National Radio (BNR), Tsvetkov made clear that some 7400 customers in Varna, Dobrich and Gorna Oryahovitsa still had no electricity.

On May 6, Bulgaria celebrates the day of St. George the Victorious as well as the day of its army.

May 6 was officially pronounced as the Day of the Bulgarian Army on January 9, 1880, shortly after the establishment of the country's military with a decree of Knyaz Alexander Battenberg.