Grocery Chain Wants to Buy Bulgaria Science Academy Building

Business | February 8, 2010, Monday // 17:58|  views

Last week Sabotinov said that the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences (BAS) is near bankruptcy. Photo by BGNES

A large grocery chain store is interested in buying a building of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences (BAS), according to Stefan Vodenicharov, the Chair of the General Assembly of the Academy.

Vodenicharov, speaking after holding a meeting with Bulgarian Socialist Party MPs and leader Sergey Stanishev, said the grocery company had written official letter to Finance Minister Simeon Djankov, Education Minister Sergey Ignatov as well BAS Chair Nikola Sabotinov.

Vodenicharov’s meeting with Stanishev was held regarding the reform by the center-right GERB government of BAS, which they both oppose, including job cuts, closures and mergers of research institutes.

Vodenicharov added that the building involved was at the address 67 ‘Shipshenski Prohod’ in Sofia and that scientists were still working there. He concluded that “different interests are certain to appear when there is talk of BAS being wound up.”

Last week Sabotinov said that the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences (BAS) is near bankruptcy. He announced that the Academy can afford to pay their electric and heating bills only for February and the money has been collected through BAS’s own savings.

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