Bulgaria hit hardest as supplies dwindle (Guardian Unlimited) by Bulgaria

Schools, kindergartens and businesses across Bulgaria were closed yesterday because of fitful gas supplies and at least one city had no central heating, as the country emerged as the worst affected in the EU by the gas dispute between Russia and Ukraine. Hundreds of thousands of Bulgarians were left without central heating in a country which receives 96% of its gas from Russia, prompting a ...

Bulgaria to get EU money over Russian gas supplies cutoff (People's Daily)
Bulgaria is going to receive part of the five billion euro that the European Union had set aside to tackle the global financial crisis in order to deal with the effects of the cutoff of gas supplies as a result of the Russia-Ukraine price dispute, the Government Information Service reported Wednesday night. This became clear from a telephone conversation Wednesday night between the Bulgarian ...

Bulgaria can live on gas shortage regime for 100 days: president (People's Daily)
Bulgaria faces no austerity measures in electricity consumption, and no termination of central heating, and its economy could function for up to 100 days on the country's reserves, Bulgarian President Georgi Parvanov announced Wednesday. The president made the announcement after a meeting of the Consultative National Security Council that he summoned after the Russian gas supplies for the ...