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The Bulgarian men's volleyball team has been defeated by France 0:3, losing its chance to play at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro.

Even if the Bulgarians had secured a victory, that might have been far from enough as they needed to win three games with an overall edge of at least 21 points.

Triple jumper Gabriela Petrova was announced on Tuesday as this year's winner of the Bulgarian Sportsperson of the Year award.

This year Petrova won a silver medal in the European Indoors Championship and finished fourth at the World Championships, setting a personal record.

Bulgaria and the Czech Republic are playing on Saturday in a CEV 2015 Men's European Volleyball Championship game in the capital Sofia.

Just after Bulgaria's resounding victory over Germany on Friday, Daily Standart reports that tickets for the Saturday were sold out in a matter of hours on Saturday morning.

Bookmakers are so far betting on a win for Bulgaria.

The chairperson of the Confederation of Independent Trade Unions in Bulgaria (KNSB) Plamen Dimitrov expects tensions in many sectors of the economy to occur in the autumn.

This could result in the staging of protests and strikes, Dimitrov said on Saturday, Darik radio informs.

The new multi-purpose Bulstrad Arena was unveiled in the Bulgarian city of Ruse on Thursday.

The opening was attended by Bulgarian Prime Minister Boyko Borisov, Regional Minister Lilyana Pavlova and the sports ministers of Bulgaria and Romania - Krasen Kralev and Gabriela Szabo.

Bulgaria's national volleyball team defeated Cuba by 3:1 ( 25:19, 25:21, 24:26, 25:23) in a game from Group C of the Volleyball World Cup's Second Division, Sportal reported.

This was the second consecutive major success for the team led by coach and former exceptional player Plamen Konstantinov. The Bulgarians currently were defeated only once by the team of Canada.

Finance Minister Vladislav Goranov and Energy Minister Temenuzhka Petkova will take part in the St Petersburg International Economic Forum (SPIEF) 2015, news sources say.

Plamen Mollov, Executive Director of the Bulgarian Food Safety Agency (BFSA), has been dismissed at the proposal of Agriculture Minister Desislava Taneva.

Mollov was removed from office on Friday by Prime Minister Boyko Borisov.

"Bulgaria is now an unhappy country. It has never been rich, but was a prosperous country, and became impoverished."

These words belong to Russian historian Oleg Ayrapetov, who was one of the guests in a discussion aired by the prominent Russian website Pravda.ru.

The US Embassy in Sofia is following the ongoing investigation into Protest Network and various media outlets which allegedly received funding by America for Bulgaria Foundation, the mission announced Thursday.