According to Associated Press and Reuters reports, severe winter weather
front lashed at Bulgaria among other Central and East European states
this week. The situation in Bulgaria was exacerbated by the
lack of funds to provide sufficient heating in public buildings, clear roads
and railways. Bulgaria's state-run BTA news agency was quoted
about the death of four people in a psychiatric clinic in Radnevo, 150 miles
east of Sofia, because of a lack of heat. One of the patients
reportedly jumped out of the window shouting, "I'm dying of cold!".
The Bulgarian president-elect Petar Stoyanov had to make an
unexpected visit to Bucharest after the three major airports
in Bulgaria -- in Sofia, Burgas and Varna -- were closed.
