Yordanka Fandakova

The municipality of Sofia, Bulgaria’s capital, inaugurated a state-of-the-art mechanical-biological refuse treatment plant this week, putting other regional metropolises to shame for sticking to … Third World methods of managing urban waste.

Bulgaria's main ruling party GERB has announced the names it has endorsed to run for mayors of the country in the October 25 local elections.

A newly-built waste processing plant in Bulgaria's capital Sofia will begin operating on Monday, the city mayor has announced.

Georgi Kadiev, a lawmaker from the Bulgarian Socialist Party (BSP), has voiced his intentions to run for mayor of Bulgaria's capital Sofia.

In Parliament, Kadiev has made no secret of his plans to either be an independent candidate or, if possible to unite left-wing, green and centrist parties around his bid.

The neolithic settlement in the Slatina neighbourhood will become one of the tourist attractions of the Bulgarian capital next year.

This was announced by Sofia Mayor Yordanka Fandakova, Cross news agency reports.

The settlement is 8000 years old and is the oldest in the Sofia valley.

The Bulgarian capital has secured funding for the construction of twelve new stations on the projected third line of the underground.

This was announced by the director of the municipal company Metropolitan Stoyan Bratoev, who together with the mayor of Sofia Yordanka Fandakova inspected the construction of the Vitosha station in the Hladilnika neighbourhood on Thursday.

With a moving stage and a sea of rainbow flags, the pro-LGBTI Sofia Pride event due on Saturday is to draw attention of discrimination in Bulgarian schools.

The Soviet Army monument in downtown Sofia, near Orlov Most, is where the rally will begin at 18:00 local time (EEST), but people are invited to gather an hour earlier.

Subway to the Sofia Business Park in Mladost 4 has been launched today.

The new segment of the underground network is 3-kilometer long with three new stops - Aleksandar Malinov, Akad. Aleksandar Teodorov- Balan and Business Park.

The total cost of the project amounts to EUR 44 M or a little less than EUR 15 M per kilometer.

The extension of the first line of the Sofia underground to the Business Park will be launched on May 8.

This was announced by Sofia Mayor Yordanka Fandakova, who inspected the construction works of the underground on Tuesday, daily Dnevnik reports.

Part of the road at the crossing of Sofia's Boulevards Christopher Columbus and Brussels has fallen through.

The statement was made by none other than Sofia's Mayor Yordanka Fandakova in the social networks Facebook and Twitter.