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Ruse shipyard hands over new cargo ship

by MacBesT on 10/11/2007 07:26 0 comments , 656 views
Categories: News, Local Events, Business & Investmens


The Rousse Shipyard JSC, owned by Rousse Shipyard Beteiligungsgeselschaft GmbH, said it has delivered a diesel-fuelled 4250 MTDW multi-purpose cargo ship to German client Nimmrich&Prahm Reederei. In Jul this year, Nimmrich&Prahm Reederei christened in Hamburg a dry cargo ship built at the Ruse shipyard under the same project. The Bulgarian ship-builder has so far hand over four vessels to the German client. The shipyard is currently working on t...
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Archeological Reserve Cherven

by MacBesT on 10/03/2007 03:51 0 comments , 753 views
Categories: Things to know, Places To See, History, Cultural Heritage
Tags: history, Archeological Reserve, Medieval Town of Cherven

The Archeological Reserve Medieval Town of Cherven is situated near the village of Cherven, about 32 km south of the city of Rousse. It is the biggest medieval fortified settlement in the Polomie region. The medieval town consisted of two parts – a Citadel and a downtown. The archeological reserve includes the remains of the fortress, the metropolitan church and the boyar castle. Visitors of the reserve can see the best preserved medieval tower ...
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Danube Bridge

by MacBesT on 06/21/2007 04:50 0 comments , 513 views
Categories: Places To See, Cultural Heritage

Danube Bridge

21 June, 2003



TheDanube Bridge at Rousse - Giurgiu, also known as the Bridge ofFriendship, is the main road and the only bridge so far linking the twocountries across the Danube on the about 500 km border between Bulgariaand Romania. It was officially opened on June 20, 1954, as it wasEurope’s biggest of the time combined bridge with railway and motorway. The main architect of the project was V. Andreev, and theconstruction of th...
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Google Employs a Bulgarian Prodigy

by MacBesT on 03/03/2007 04:30 0 comments , 808 views
Categories: Cultural Events, Things to know, News, Figures of the City
Tags: Google, Bulgarian Prodigy, Momchil Kyurkchiev



I'm in the Seventh Heaven, says student Momchil Kyurkchiev


TheAmericandream came true for a Bulgarian student. The Google Internetempire hasemployed 23-year-old Momchil Kyurkchiev from Rousse, whostudies in SUNYBrockport in New York. Momchil amazed the Americansduring histhree-month specialization in the company.
I'm in theSeventh Heaven.This is a wonderful company. Corporate world is oftenassociated withtight discipline, but t...

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Topalov: Russia defends Kramnik in all ways

by MacBesT on 01/31/2007 07:02 0 comments , 683 views
Categories: Things to know, Sport, News, History, Figures of the City
Tags: chess, Topalov, "Toilet war", champion
GM Veselin Topalov has once again proved to be the best chess player in the world as he won the Corus Chess Tournament in Wijk aan Zee for a second successive year. At the same time, however, the FIDE Presidential Board decided in Antalya that there would be no return match Topalov-Kramnik for the World Title.
 Topalov gave an exclusive interview for the readers of Standart
 

Topalov, Aronian and Radjabov are posing at the awarding ceremony in Wijk...
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BG art news

by MacBesT on 01/26/2007 07:32 0 comments , 638 views
Categories: Cultural Events, Things to know, News
Tags: BG art, Berlinale Film Festival, BG actors, Ivan Burnev, Hristo Zhivkov


For the first time in the last 30 years the Berlinale Film Festival is featuring films with BG actors in the leading roles - Ivan Burnev in the film "I Served the King of England" ("Obsluhoval jsem anglickeho kralé") directed by the famous Czech director Jirí Menzel, and Hristo Zhivkov in the film "In Memory Of Myself" ("In memoria di me") by Saverio Costanzo, Italy.

Two BG actors Ivan Burnev (the photo above) and Hristo Zhivkov, are both among t...

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Today is ANTONOVDEN (St. Anthony`s Day)

by MacBesT on 01/17/2007 04:58 0 comments , 795 views
Categories: Traditions, Things to know, News, History, Cultural Heritage
January 17, 2007


Name day of everyone named Anton (meaning priceless in Latin), Antonia, Antoanneta, Antoan, Andon, Doncho, Donka, Donna, Donny, Donyo, Tonyo, Tony.

People celebrate this day and are forbidden to work as a protection against the plague. Young brides get up at dawn and bake breads called `choumini` (meaning `of plague`). They spread honey on them ?to please the old lady, the Plague?, and give them away around the neighbourhood for t...

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Both Happiness and Diseases Are Predetermined by Genes

by MacBesT on 01/14/2007 04:04 0 comments , 652 views
Categories: Things to know, News, History, Cultural Heritage
Tags: Thracians, Slavs, Proto-Bulgarians, Bulgaria, Bulgarians
The modern Bulgarians are descendants of many different ancient peoples, says Ivo Kremenski

Professor Ivo Kremenski is a person who knows a lot about the genes of the Bulgarian people. He heads the National Laboratory of Genetics, where recently an international team has discovered the reason for the hereditary atrophy of the peripheral nervous system. We asked Prof. Kremenski questions about the genetically predetermined diseases, about the orig...
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Britain Makes Game of Bulgaria

by MacBesT on 01/12/2007 04:35 0 comments , 604 views
Categories: Things to know, Places To See, News, History, Cultural Heritage
Tags: Bulgaria, England, British Museum, Tetraevalgelia of Vidin
London Museum apologizes to Bulgaria for the blunder with the "Macedonian" inscription


British Museum officials apologized to the Bulgarian Embassy in London and changed the scandalous inscription under the Tetraevalgelia of Vidin
Photo: Archives of Standart

Do you remember how grandfather Liben, the character of Bulgarian writer Lyuben Karavelov, takes the mickey out of the citizens of the British Islands: "These are the oddest people on earth. I ...
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Culture club - Open cultural institutions days

by MacBesT on 01/10/2007 08:47 0 comments , 683 views
Categories: Things to know, Places To See, News, Cultural Heritage
Tags: Plovdiv, Vidin, Bulgaria, Bourgas, Varna, Veliko Tarnovo, Rousse, Open Museums Day, Shoumen, Pleven, Vratsa, Razgrad, Kardjali




On January 10, 2007 the Ministry of Culture organizes Open Museums Day on the occasion of Bulgaria’s accession to the European Union. 38 state and municipal museums, as well as 20 galleries will be visited for free. Free shows will be performed in all the state theaters in the country within the Ministry’s initiative. Music spectacles and concerts will be also free in the Open cultural institutions week in the Opera-philharmonic units in Rousse,...
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