Joint training involving Bulgarian special forces and the US Air Forces in Europe began on August 19, Bulgaria’s Ministry of Defence said. The joint exercise involves 250 military personnel from Bulgaria’s 68th Special Forces Brigade and up to 30 personnel with five UH-60 Black Hawk helicopters from the US Air Read more…
The Bulgarian Ministry of Defence published a BGN5.8 million (USD3.3 million) tender on 29 July for the modernisation of the Bulgarian Air Force’s (BuAF’s) Bezmer Air Base, 250 km east of Sofia, under the NATO Security Investment Programme (NSIP). The project involves the construction at Bezmer of facilities for personnel, Read more…
Bulgaria’s Ministry of Defense announced that, on August 5, it had sent formal Requests for Proposals (RFP) to four companies invited to bid to supply armored infantry carriers. These four companies are ARTEC GmbH (Germany), Patria (Finland), Nexter Systems (France) and General Dynamics European Land Systems – MOWAG (Switzerland). The Read more…
The Specialised Prosecutor’s Office and the Directorate for Combatting Organised Crime disrupted an organized crime group on trafficking and sexual exploitation of women, Deputy Chief Prosecutor Ivan Geshev said at a briefing at the Court of Justice on July 29. The organized crime group was involved in the trafficking of Read more…
Chief Instructor Comment: Cyber and physical security go hand-in-hand and you can not have one without the other. (CNN)Asen Genov is pretty furious. His personal data was made public this week after records of more than 5 million Bulgarians got stolen by hackers from the country’s tax revenue office. In a country Read more…
A large-scale training exercise of the Ministry of the Interior and the Road Agency takes place on Hemus Motorway on July 10. The traffic through “Echemmiska” tunnel towards Varna is temporarily closed for simulation of a multiple-vehilcle accident with many wounded. Some of the best international experts in dealing with Read more…
,,On average, by 20%, road accidents increase in July and August compared to the other months of the year. Therefore, it is very important now to emphasize the attention of people to be more careful and tolerant on the road.” This was announced by the Chair of the State Agency Read more…
A National Coordination Center for Safe Road Traffic is being established, the government decided today. The main task of the new center is to reduce the response time for heavy road accidents or the occurrence of temporary obstacles on the roads as a result of severe weather conditions or other Read more…
SOFIA, Bulgaria — Bulgarian officials said on Saturday that they had arrested and charged a 16-year-old student who had been radicalized by the Islamic State with planning a terrorist attack. The Islamic State had recruited the teenager, who is from Plovdiv, in a process that started over social media, Deputy Read more…
The Bulgarian State Agency for National Security (SANS), the country’s counterintelligence and counterterrorism service, deported 95 foreigners in 2018, according to its annual report released on Thursday, reports Xinhua. Fifteen of those expelled were associated with terrorist activities, the report said. Another two were deported on the grounds of their Read more…