Meeting with US Ambassador Herro Mustafa on Tuesday, Prime Minister Boyko Borissov said Bulgaria and the US are allies and strategic partners. The two countries have established a steady political dialogue at all levels, the government information service said.

A curious flash mob has been taking place in the behind-the-scenes clique’s media outlets over the past few days and weeks. Not a day goes by without some prominent reporter of that clique asking prosecutor-general candidate Ivan Geshev a question from the comforts of their own computer. The query is always the same and is passed around like a baton. The participants in this sporting event ask Geshev about Peevski. Ask and do not particularly care for an answer.

Prime Minister Boyko Borissov and Energy Minister Temenouzhka Petkova attended here the opening of the Balkan Stream gas pipeline extension from the Bulgarian-Turkish border to the Strandja compressor station. According to Borissov, the project would allow Bulgaria to become a main gas distribution centre.

Oligarch Ivo Prokopiev has outed Tsvetan Vassilev as a seasoned Russian lobbyist. Instead of doing a favour to the financial fraudster responsible for the biggest theft (between BGN 5bn and BGN 6bn) in Bulgaria’s modern history, Prokopiev’s Anti-Corruption Fund achieved quite the opposite.

Oligarch Ivo Prokopiev and his fosterlings from the Anticorruption Fund have exposed the Russian ties of the indicted ex-banker Tsvetan Vassilev who is hiding out in Serbia. The awkward situation in a tandem between Prokopiev and Vassilev was caused by a film released by Capital in a bid to implicate the lawmaker of the opposition party Movement for Rights and Freedoms and publisher of Telegraph Media Delyan Peevski in the South Stream affair.

Underneath the city centre of Vidin, in the north west of Bulgaria, lie the barely explored remains of the ancient Roman city of Bononia. It was not until this year that archaeologists started to excavate at least a small part of that valuable piece of ancient history. More specifically, the excavations have been focused on studying the so-called Tower No 8, located on the western fortress wall of Bononia.

Fugitive banker Tsvetan Vassilev made plans to syphon off CorpBank a second time two years before the scandal with its collapse blew up in June 2014. This was revealed by the latest testimony of the lead witness in the case Biser Lazov for the Specialised Criminal Court. He was the chief accountant of “The Firm”, under whose umbrella were all the companies affiliated with Vassilev that received unsecured loans from the lender.

The new Ambassador of the United States to Bulgaria H.E. Herro Mustafa and her family have arrived in Sofia. She is a career diplomat born in 1973 in Iraq to a Kurdish family. She spent two years of her childhood in a refugee camp. In 1976 her family was granted right of asylum in the US. H.E. Mustafa has a bachelor's degree from Georgetown University and a master's degree from Princeton University. She is fluent in nine languages, including Arabic, Russian, Hindi and Farsi.

"We appreciate the significance of the relations of traditional friendship and mutually advantageous cooperation between Bulgaria and Cambodia," Bulgarian Prime Minister Boyko Borissov said on Wednesday as he conferred with Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen, who is paying an official visit here.

Do you know when the indictment against Tsvetan Vassilev and 17 other individuals stemming from the heist of the century known as the CorpBank collapse started to be heard in earnest by the Specialised Criminal Court? About a year later than it should have. And the reason for the wasted over 365 days is the legal tricks performed by the fraudster’s representatives in court.