Eight people were charged and detained for up to 72 hours in the Danube city of Ruse in connection with yesterday’s joint operation of Bulgaria’s Chief Directorate Combating Organized Crime and the Specialized Prosecutor’s Office, the Spokesperson of Bulgaria’s Chief Prosecutor Rumiana Arnaudova announced on Sunday. Seven of them were indicted of participating in organized criminal group engaged in racketeering since the beginning of 2015. The eight detainee is a woman who is charged along with four of the group’s members of kidnapping and extortion. Iliya, brother of Bulgarian MP Georgi Stoilov and Manuel, son of the head of the Traffic Police department in Ruse Mihail Manov, are among the detainees, Four metal batons, three pistols, one electric baton, 107 bullets, two knives and artillery “thunder” consisting of 400 grams of trotyl, were found during the raids.
On Friday , the lowest temperatures will be between 5 and 10°C; in Sofia - it will be around 6°C. During the day it will be cloudy and with precipitation. In Northwestern Bulgaria the amounts will be significant. Almost no..
''I am not surprised that the president’s veto concerning the sale of Lukoil’s assets was overturned, because even on such a delicate, serious and worrying issue, there were no arguments or discussion'', Vice President Iliana Iotova told journalists..
Birth rate in Bulgaria has decreased by 33% over the past three decades. In 1994, 79,442 live births were registered in the country, while in 2024 the number dropped to 53,428. 6.5% of Bulgarian children are now born through in vitro fertilization..
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