MOSCOW, July 13 (RIA Novosti) - Bulgaria...

The center-right GERB party won a landslide victory at parliamentary elections on July 5 and its leader Borisov is expected to head a new government soon, Vedomosti reported.

In a letter sent to Economy and Energy Minister Petar Dimitrov, the future leader said his party was receiving alarming signals over operations conducted by state-owned companies, which were not taking into account the financial and economic crisis and Bulgaria"s national interests, Vedomosti reported.

The letter called on the minister to put on hold finalizing of new lease and loan agreements, and also temporarily freeze such projects as the construction of the Belene nuclear power plant and the South Stream gas pipeline project, the paper reported.

Russia signed an inter-governmental agreement on the South Stream gas project with the Socialist-led Bulgarian government in January 2008 and in May 2009 Gazprom and state-run Bulgarian Energy Holding (BEH) agreed to set up a joint venture on

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