Dimitar Grekov

Tatyana Stoyanova, head of the Pazardzhik Mayor's Office, was shot dead Monday evening in front of her home.

Stoyanova had just parked her car outside her home in Dimitar Grekov Street in Pazardzhik and had headed for the entrance of the block of flats when she was shot in the head, according to reports of Nova TV.

The murderer managed to escape.

Budgets of Bulgarian ministries were reinforced at Wednesday's session held by the cabinet, amid expectations that the government is to step down.

Some BGN 7.365 M were granted to the Finance Ministry, and the Ministry of Labor and Social Policy received BGN 3 M.

Illegal logging accounts for 1/3 of the wood produced in the region of the flood-stricken Varna district of Asparuhovo, according to Agriculture Minister Dimitar Grekov.

The Bulgarian Black Sea city of Varna reported a death toll of 12 and massive damage to the infrastructure and housing after heavy rain and severe flooding on Thursday.

Livestock breeders from across Bulgaria are organizing a protest in the center of Sofia on Tuesday, against undelivered promises from the Ministry of Agriculture.

The Union of Cattle Breeders called Friday a national protest on June 16 to express disgruntlement with institutional indifference to problems in the sector.

It announced the event after another organization representing stock breeders staged a 10-minute demonstration near the south-western town of Dupnitsa.

Bulgaria's State Fund Agriculture has managed to provide the additional BGN 4M it promised to farmers in a day, Thursday.

Bulgaria is the first EU country to be a partner of the international livestock breeding expo SOMMET DE L'ÉLEVAGE, to be held in Clermont-Ferrand on October 1-3, 2014.

The event was presented in Bulgaria's Embassy in Paris, according to the press office of the Ministry of Agriculture and Food.

Heavy rainfall has prompted a state of emergency in 2 northwestern municipalities of Bulgaria.

The municipalities of Chuprene and Ruzhintsi in the Vidin region have been the most affected by the intense rain in the past days. The nearby dam in Gyurgich overflowed on Wednesday night, but is reportedly under control now, Dariknews revealed.

The expected rainfalls in Bulgaria do not pose a risk for flooding of dams, the Agriculture Minister Dimitar Grekov assured.

"The dams managed by the "Irrigation Systems" company are under control", Grekov said.

Bulgaria's Irrigation Systems employees have already received their delayed salaries, Minister of Agriculture and Food Dimitar Grekov announced.

The funds allocated by the Government amount to BGN 15M, and only part of it, namely 1.6M monthly, will go for salaries.