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A Plovdiv-based plant has manufactured 20 truck-mounted aerial platforms to be delivered to the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO).

The trucks are being loaded onto military vehicles to be shipped to the respective overseas destinations, according to Petar Petrov, Executive Director of Balkankar Record.

Bulgarian poet, playwright, script writer and translator Valeri Petrov is in a serious condition in the intensive care unit of the Military Hospital in Sofia, report the media. 

Petrov, 94, suffered a massive stroke in Varna last week and was transported to Sofia over the weekend.

According to medics, quoted by the media, Petorv is in a coma and on mechanical ventilation.

The Russian citizens own 300 000 properties in Bulgaria and invested around EUR 18 B, reports Deutsche Welle. 

According to estimates, this is about 10 times more than the officially recognized investments by Russian companies in Bulgaria. Thus Russia becomes the largest foreign investor in Bulgaria's economy. 

The trade union of the prison guards in Bulgaria is ready to announce a general strike of its members, its leader Ivan Petrov told the bTV national channel. 

“We are seeking solutions to the problems of those working in the prisons and are preparing a petition for changing the work shifts from 24-hour to 12-hour,” Petrov said. 

Six complaints from five prisoners have been united in one trial, Neshkov et al. against Bulgaria, which indicates that the Strasbourg court intends to review Bulgaria's poor prison conditions as a systemic problem, Bulgarian National Radio reported.

The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) in Strasbourg is preparing a new pilot-judgment procedure, the third in a row, against Bulgaria over poor prison conditions.

A Bulgarian real estate company expects that this year the English-speaking customers will return to the market. 

According to Teofil Petrov, executive director of Green Life – a real estate company specialized in such customers – quoted by the BTA wire service, there is an increase in queries for purchase of homes. So far, however, there are no deals.