Government of Bulgaria

There will be no amnesty for the debts of the religious denominations. They will be rescheduled. The news was announced by the head of GERB Parliamentary Group Tsvetan Tsvetanov and the Finance Minister Vladislav Goranov on 13th of March.

Gazprom stops transit of gas to Turkey through Bulgaria. The company has sent an official letter to the Bulgarian government stating that it will stop supplying gas on the Trans-Balkan Corridor through Ukraine until January 2020, the Turkish version of the Russian Sputnik News site reports.

Measures to promote bilateral travel will be discussed by the delegations of the Russian Federation and Bulgaria today in Sofia. The talks are part of a business forum, which will be opened by Prime Minister Boyko Borisov and Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev.

Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev arrives in Bulgaria on a two-day visit. He will be greeted on March 4 with an official ceremony in front of the St. Alexander Nevsky Cathedral.
 

NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg arrives on a visit to Sofia on Thursday evening at the invitation of Prime Minister Boyko Borisov, the government information service said. They will hold a working dinner to discuss co-operation in the security and defense and stability of the Western Balkans and the region.

Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev will be on an official visit to Bulgaria on March 4-5 at the invitation of his Bulgarian counterpart Boyko Borisov, the government information service announced on Monday.

The visit will begin a day after Bulgaria's National Holiday - March 3rd.

The Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Northern Macedonia Nikola Dimitrov arrives on an official visit to Bulgaria, reported the Bulgarian National Television. 

He will be welcomed by his Bulgarian counterpart Ekaterina Zaharieva to the Council of Ministers, and then will meet with President Rumen Radev.
Expect more details.

Sofia University "St. Kliment Ohridski" officially launched its admissions campaign. From February 18, Monday, applications are accepted to attend admission exams to enter the university.

Exam sessions this year are two. The first one will be from 24 March to 28 April 2019 and the second from 26 May to 23 June.

The local gas extraction in the Black Sea is among the most realistic types of diversification of the energy sources the Bulgarian government strives towards, reported the Bulgarian National Radio. 

Prime Minister Boyko Borissov and ministers met with former supreme commander of NATO forces in Europe, Gen. Wesley Clark, who is in Bulgaria as counselor of a Swiss organization dealing with the fight against illegal trade and the fight against smuggling. This was reported this morning by NOVA TV.