from press reports, i understand that the prime minister of bulgaria made an announcement that bulgariaould you comment on that, please, as it pertains to greece? >> sure. it is a project that has been designed with the participation of greece and it has been a strategic target for greece for many years. greece has taken it very seriously and will have actually -- we have committed ourselves to going through with the project, we have the agreements with the bulgarian side and the russian sidend for the proje and we consider it very important, both in internally and strategic importance. and, actually, a few days before those announcements by the prime minister of bulgaria, we, the ministry of environment had called a meeting with our bulgarian counterparts to discuss and move as fast as we could within the environmental assessment for the project, and sadly, a few days later the prime minister of bulgaria announced exactly that, and, in a way, put it as withdrawing from the project which is a very negative development. still, from our side, we keep still pushing for the project. we actu

romania and bulgaria are taking steps to make sure -- they are taking steps to up to spend hundreds of illegal roma ca mps. nicolas sarkozy has ordered the immediate expulsion of a robot who have committed crimes. -- roma to have committed crimes. >> the french call them traveling people. most have long been a french citizens and no longer live an itinerant lifestyle. local authority is -- in recent years, hundreds of illegal camps have sprung op. at a special session, the french government agreed to close many of them. >> it has been decided that within the next three months, half of these illegal camps, 300, will be dismantled. >> the fact that roma representatives were not invited to the meeting caused additional our rage. they have accused the government of stigmatizing minorities. >> if president sarkozy thinks that clamping down will improve the situation, i do not think he will succeed. our young people will rebel. >> the crackdown comes after a group of roma attacked a police station earlier this month. >> the pentagon has called in the fbi to investigate a massive leak of clas

. >> we will proceed to the almost immediate deportation of the roamers, either to bulgaria or romania. >> there are around four hundred thousand traveling people living in france. they say they are unfairly associated with an influx of eastern european illegal immigrants. >> there are between half a million and 1 million travelers whose rights are denied. i hope they will take this into account to fight racism and do away with this. >> some human lives organizations accused the president of stigmatizing minority groups. he says he is making a distinction between offenders and those who just want to live in peace. >> it has been a tradition in spain for centuries, but for the first time, bullfighting has been banned in part of the spanish mainland. the northeast region of catalonia has voted for it in there. petition's call the barbaric. >> it has been a part of spanish culture for centuries, a ritual in which a matador and his team used cakes, lances to subdue and then killed a bull. to critics, this is torture. bullfighting has been banned in catalonia. this was the reaction as the l

without bulgaria i would say guest room has to find another way to enter european markets from there or from the south we know that it goes from the north with the north stream and or the second the second step is to go from the south. and what further agreements i need it for south stream to go ahead definitely i would say the server at this agreement the signing is sort of for politico or politico princeling that yes this project is ready to go but of course we have to see their complete physical the two studies the economic calculations and or say we have to or see where their sources of gas will come from and so on. effective where are we are still we still have to see a little bit more then than just to just this event we have we would probably have to go a little bit a couple of more years we had to see the projects to be completed and now that russia has resolved its problems with countries like ukraine and belarus basically does it still needs south stream well this is a very tricky question i would say my own a stance or would probably know. very expensive both expansive and

opponent of the proposals russia's gal's probably the details in just a minute first our top story bulgaria and russia have signed a detailed preliminary agreement on the south stream gas pipeline after discussions concluded in varna the deal is a technical group map of how the two countries will move to the next step and it will be to set up a joint company to study the visibility of the project it would provide the details for a legally binding contract gazprom is developing south stream to provide an alternative route for russian gas to europe its main partners in the project are in italian energy giant any and france's e.d.f. and in related news kazakhstan's president nursultan nazarbayev has accused the e.u. of not taking any steps toward realising the in the bluecoat project viewed as a competitor to sell stream the energy rich central asian country is also keen on securing his gas supplies to europe and assign additional routes. the government is heading for a potential showdown with the most important industrial sector of the russian economy it wants to raise taxes for a resource ex

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finally been approved what that means for market participants though bit later in the program first bulgaria and russia signed a detailed preliminary agreement on the south stream gas pipeline off discussions concluded vargo the deal is a technical ruled map of how the two countries will move forward the next step is to set up a joint company to study the visibility of the point that it would provide the details for a legally binding contract problems developing self-esteem to provide an alternative route for russian gals to europe its main partners the projects are now telling the giant any else france's e.d.f. . russia's past the long awaited a law on insider trading the new rules are intended to define illegal trading and what sort of punishment should be handed out to those who cross the line. explains . in the film wall street's by oliver stone gordon gekko makes billions by insider trading but the character that told the world greed is good gets his comeuppance the long arm of the low finally gets his hands on the antihero and we presume strips him of his wealth and send him to prison

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studying in bulgaria i wanted to create a bridge. knowing i have not seen my home for 18 years and that there is a russian military general in my house, i started chatting with people on facebook, trying to build ground for a negotiation. i brought this article, very objective. i wrote this article about my personal experience. my grandmother lived there. i basically post of this on my facebook wall. in like two days i got 40 comments. . my point is that most of the connections -- i have lots of friends from armenia in my university --but the outside of our country's weak connect and our friends. governments inside the country should break stereotypes. >> thank you. >> this is very relevant. the conflict in georgia is very significant so i will comment. [inaudible] for me a year and a half ago where people started to be nice to each other, it was with a minute, what is going on here? is the social media just reflecting changes in society anyway? we do know until someone does a sociological survey. is it changing only among a small mi