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EU, Russia strike deal on monitoring gas flow

Russia News Net (Free subscription) | 3 hours ago

... and tens of thousands of people scrambled to find other ways of keeping warm. (AP Photo/Valentina Petrova) Associated Press Pedestrians braves the wind driven snow in Kiev, Ukraine, Thursday, Jan. 8, 2009. A dispute between Russia and the Ukraine is disrupting gas supplies, and the European Union has called on political leaders in Russia and Ukraine to restore gas supplies to EU member states....

Balkans freeze as Russia cuts gas supply

Russia News Net (Free subscription) | yesterday

A man loads a wood-burning stove at his home in the town of Elin Pelin near the Bulgarian capital Sofia, Wednesday, Jan. 7, 2009. Bulgaria's energy ministry says Russian gas supplies to Bulgaria, Turkey, Greece and Macedonia have been suspended. (AP Photo/Petar Petrov) Associated Press A woman works to collect coal at an open air coal market in the town of Varna east of the Bulgarian...

Maxim Staviski to serve his sentence behind bars, court says

The Sofia Echo (Free subscription) | 05/01/2009

Two-time world champion ice skater Maxim Staviski will have to serve his two-and-a-half year sentence in jail, the Bourgas Appellative Court has ruled, Bulgarian news agency Focus said on January 5 2009. Staviski was given a suspended sentence of two years and six months, with five years’ probation, for causing the death of a young man, Petar Petrov, and severe injuries to a 19-year-old...

Judge: We Should Have Confirmed Staviiski's Suspended Sentence

Sofia News Agency (Free subscription) | 05/01/2009

... 2,5 years for driving drunk and causing a car crash on August 5, 2007, which left the 24-year-old Petar Petrov dead, and the 18-year-old Manuela Gorsova comatose. Staviiski's blood alcohol content at the time of the crash was 1.24. In December, the case against Staviiski was referred to the Burgas Appellate Court by the parents of the car crash victims. The Burgas Appellate Court...

World skating champion Maxim Staviski to serve hi sentence in prison

International - Home (Free subscription) | 05/01/2009

... Instead of 90 000 for damages to each of the deceased in the car accident, caused by Staviski, Petar Petrov, Staviski will have to pay 120 000 to each of them.The amount of the civil claim for Manuela Gorsova, who has been in coma since the accident, has also been increased - instead of the initial 80 000, the court judged 150 000 leva.Today's decision can be appealed before the Supreme...

• Maxim Staviski to serve his sentence behind bars, court says - The Sofia Echo

Maxim Staviski Jailed Over Drunk-Driving Death

Sports - The Post Chronicle (Free subscription) | 05/01/2009

... Staviski was charged in 2007 over the death of the 24-year-old amateur boxer Petar Petrov. He was over the alcohol limit when his Jeep collided with two other vehicles near the Black Sea town of Primorsko. Staviski, one of the most popular athletes in Bulgaria, and his partner Albena Denkova claimed the Balkan country's first world title in Calgary in 2006 before successfully defending...

Bulgaria's Figure Skating Champion Maxim Staviiski Goes to Prison

Sofia News Agency (Free subscription) | 05/01/2009

... 2,5 years for driving drunk and causing a car crash on August 5, 2007, which left the 24-year-old Petar Petrov dead, and the 18-year-old Manuela Gorsova comatose. Staviiski's blood alcohol content at the time of the crash was 1.24. In December, the case against Staviiski was referred to the Burgas Appellate Court by the parents of the car crash victims. With its Monday's ruling the...