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Vice Admiral Evtimov Appointed as Provisional Chief of Defence

On 18 January 2017, an official ceremony was conducted in the Ceremonial Hall at the Ministry of Defence for the formal transfer of the position of Chief of Defence. Vice Admiral Evtimov was born on 16 August 1961 in Varna, In 1979 he finished the Secondary School of Mathematics in the city and started his [...]

By | 2017-01-25T10:05:07+00:00 January 25th, 2017|2017 en, Archives, ministry of defence, News|0 Comments

Defence and Armed Forces Act Amendment

Pursuant to Order No KV-19/ 13 January 2017 by the Minister of Defence of the Republic of Bulgaria, in compliance with Presidential Ukase No 6 / 09 January 2017, the first flag officer rank of commodore in the Navy shall be renamed into ‘flotilla admiral’, effective from 16 January 2017.

By | 2017-01-25T10:02:59+00:00 January 16th, 2017|2017 en, ministry of defence, News|0 Comments

Nikola Vaptsarov Naval Academy Hosts NATO Conference

On 28 June 2016, the fifth annual NATO conference on defence education – NATO Clearing House 2016 – officially began at Nikola Vaptsarov Naval Academy. The international forum was opened by the Deputy Minister of Defence, Dimitar Kuymyurdzhiev. He greeted the participants from 23 NATO member states attending the annual conference, and emphasised on the [...]