The number of Russian tourists has been rising despite sanctions related to the war in Ukraine and the absence of direct flights to Bulgaria. 33,584 visits by Russian tourists with overnight stays were registered in the period January to May 2022. The number of Russian tourists compared to a year earlier surged 3.9 times, outgoing Minister of Tourism Hristo Prodanov said.
The Ministry says that all planned informational activities and the advertising campaign of Bulgaria on the Russian market have been temporarily suspended. However, the Consular Service in Moscow continues to issue tourist visas to Russian citizens without restrictions.
On Wednesday, minimum temperatures in Bulgaria will range from zero to 5° C., for Sofia around zero. There will be fog in some parts in the lowlands in the morning. During the day there will be clouds with no significant precipitation, the clouds..
Judge Vladislava Tsarigradska of the Pleven District Court received the grand prize "Person of the Year" of the Bulgarian Helsinki Committee. She grabbed the award for her active work in exposing unregulated relations and dependencies in the..
A scheme for tax crimes through the use of documents with false content about carrying out fictitious deals with fuel exempt from excise duty has been busted. The avoided payment of excise duty is over 4.8 million EUR. The company, which was..
It is too early to predict how the events in Syria would affect the war in Ukraine. This is what EU Defense Commissioner Andrius..
Hundreds of miners protested outside the Council of Ministers while an extraordinary meeting of the National Council for Tripartite Cooperation was..
"I am addressing a question to the Prime Minister regarding information that on November 26 this year, a group of Bulgarian citizens was on trial in..
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