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The Palace of Culture and Sports in the Bulgarian city of Varna will host this year's edition of then men's volleyball European League finals between July 1 and 3.

This will be the first participation of Bulgaria in the tournament, with eight teams competing this year.

Bulgaria has the capacity to welcome one and a half million Russian tourists next summer.

This was stated by Bulgarian Tourism Minister Nikolina Angelkova in an interview for private NOVA TV on Sunday.

Angelkova's words were based on a statement of the executive chairman of the Ural Association of Tourism Mikhail Maltsev.

The exit polls of Alpha Research polling agency suggest that the cities of Varna, Kardzhali and Blagoevgrad have reelected their incumbent mayors at the local elections held in Bulgaria on Sunday.

According to the exit polls as of 18 o'clock EET, Ivan Portnih, the incumbent mayor of Varna and candidate of the largest ruling party GERB, won the elections with 57.9 % of the votes.

An operation to keep afloat flooded Turkish cargo ship Pazar east of Bulgarian Black Sea port of Varna has ended successfully, the captain of Bulgarian tugboat Enterprise said on Monday.

Roma residents who erected illegally dozens of homes in a Varna ghetto have no right to be provided with social housing, a regional mayor has said.

Authorities began on Thursday demolishing part of 60 dwellings which are to be bulldozed after having sheltered hundreds of Roma people for years.

Sixty-one illegally built dwellings in the Roma ghetto of Maksuda, Varna (in NE Bulgaria) are to be demolished starting Thursday.

There has bee some controversy over the number of inhabitants.

A Russian tourist has drowned in a storm near the Black Sea city of Varna, media outlets quote Russia's Vice Consul as saying.

Tour operator Balkan Holidays has announced that it will add a new route from Scotland's Glasgow to Bulgaria's Varna in the summer of next year.

After releasing their latest summer single, D2 are ready for their upcoming summer tour entitled ''In the Rhythm of Summer 2015''.

The concerts will take place on some of Bulgaria's most attractive beaches. In addition, hip hop and pop artist BOBO and the dance crew LaTiDa will also be joining the tour and entertaining the audience.

The Bulgarian Commission on Consumer Protection will be launching mass inspections of clubs along the seaside resorts.

Most prominently, the commission's officers will be checking if the quality of the offered alcoholic beverages is proper.

Another important issue will be if resort clubs offer the necessary accommodations for people with disabilities.