Svetoslav Ivanov

The Bulgarian national MMA team for men, women, and youth concluded their participation in the European Championship in Belgrade with two silver and 6 bronze medals. With these, the total number of medals won by Bulgarian MMA fighters from all age groups reaches 18.

Representatives of the Bulgarian community in Odesa gathered to commemorate the 176th birth anniversary of poet and revolutionary Hristo Botev with a tribute event organized by the All-Ukrainian Centre for Bulgarian Culture and the local Bulgarian Society.

For the seventh consecutive year, the outsourcing industry has double-digit growth and now accounts for 3.6% of Bulgaria's GDP. This is stated in the Report on the Bulgarian Outsourcing Industry 2017, prepared by the Bulgarian Outsourcing Association (BAA). The share of the services sector in GDP has grown steadily in recent years, with 2.8% in 2014 and 3.4% in 2015.

Bulgaria's biggest private gas supplier Overgas is challenging actions of Russian energy giant Gazprom in court, three months after the company faced a halt in deliveries.

At the end of December, Gazprom stopped supplying Overgas over what the Russian Foreign Ministry describes as ongoing commercial issues.