Varna, Bulgaria News

Bulgaria 's Black Sea city of Varna has not witnessed a decrease in the number of foreign tourists visiting it despite the ongoing anti-government protests in the city, according to Atanas Atanasov, head of the Union of Bulgarian Tourist Guides.

According to reports of the Interior Ministry, as cited by the Focus news agency, the rally taking place in downtown Sofia is attended by over 15 000.

New protest rallies are planned in Bulgaria against the election of controversial young MP as the new head of the state Agency for National Security , even though he said he is ready to step down.

The election of murky businessman Delyan Peevski as the new head of Bulgaria's State Agency for National Security has stirred outrage in Bulgaria, with over 6000 joining a Facebook page calling for protests against the election in just over an hour.

Volen Siderov, leader of Bulgaria's far-right nationalist party Ataka, during his interview for TV7 Tuesday morning.

It is almost two months until Scotland's capital city hosts the biggest arts festival on the planet, but here, in the charming city of Varna , on Bulgaria's Black Sea coast, the summer theatre festival season has started in earnest.

The International Theater Festival "Varna Summer" is held traditionally from June 1 until June 12 in Bulgaria's Black Sea capital.

The European Union felt relief when Bulgaria rapidly formed a working government after the May 12 general elections, European Commissioner Kristalina Georgiva said.

On June 5, World Environment Day, Bulgarians and Romanians are to stage anti-shale gas protests in Sofia, Varna, Dobrich, the Durankulak border crossing point, Bucharest, Cluj, Sibiu, Mangalia, Iasi, Sigisoara and Brasov.

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The written requests for flights of Bulgaria's former Prime Minister , Boyko Borisov , have been destroyed and are no longer available.

A protest has been called for Tuesday evening on Facebook in central Sofia over alleged " mafia " ties of persons nominated for ministers by Bulgarian PM hopeful Plamen Oresharski Monday.

Tsvetlin Yovchev , a former Chief of Staff of President Rosen Plevneliev, has been officially nominated for Interior Minister in Bulgaria's next government .

She graduated the Medical University of Varna with honors. In 1998 she became Associate Professor and in 2005 she was awarded the title 'Professor.' Pope Francis welcomed on Friday an official Bulgarian delegation led by Bulgarian caretaker Prime Minister Marin Raykov on the occasion of May 24, the Day of the Slavic Script and Bulgarian Culture....

The airport in Bulgaria's Black Sea city of Varna is open for business and has resumed its normal schedule, the management announced Saturday.The airport was closed Friday after an incident with a plane of the Air Via carrier.Strong winds and heavy rains veered the airplane out... The first thing you need to do is choose a news reader, if you ... (more)

An Air VIA Airbus A320-200, registration LZ-MDR performing flight VL-502 from Leipzig to Varna with 172 passengers and 6 crew, landed on Varna's runway 09 at 10:19L but overran the end of the runway, broke through the localizer antenna and came to a stop about 220 meters past the runway end just inside the airport perimeter fence.

The Air Via airplane was carrying out a charter flight from Leipzig with a total of 172 passengers aboard.

An airplane skidded off the runway at Varna airport in Bulgaria on Friday, injuring two people.