PRESS DIGEST - Bulgaria - Aug 15

SOFIA, Aug 15 (Reuters) - These are some of the main stories in Bulgarian newspapers on Tuesday. Reuters has not verified these stories and does not vouch for their accuracy.

-- Ruling centre-right GERB party submitted a signal to Chief Prosecutor Sotir Tsatsarov regarding the Tsankov Kamak hydro power plant, senior party member Desislava Atanasova said. She added that GERB does not have the necessary expertise to assess whether it will be paid from the commissioning of this facility and how long it would take (Trud, Standart, Monitor)

-- Bulgaria's dominant state gas company Bulgargaz predicted a six-percent drop in natural gas prices as of October 1 due to the lower exchange rate of the Bulgarian lev against the U.S. dollar. The estimated price of blue fuel for the fourth quarter of 2017 is 347.99 levs ($209.20) per 1000 cubic meters (excluding transport, excise and VAT) (Standart, Capital daily, Monitor)

-- A total of 3,747,596 passengers passed through Sofia Airport in the first seven months of the year, a record-high rise of 42 percent over the same period last year, the Sofia airport said. The number of passengers on regular international flights rose 33 percent, the number of domestic flight passengers rose by 57 percent while that of charter flight passengers rose increased 12 percent (Standart, Monitor)

-- Bulgarian eSports gamer Ivan Ivanov, better known for his gaming nickname MinD_ContRoL, won 2 million levs ($1.20 million) after an impressive victory at a Dota 2 tournament. Ivanov is part of Team Liquid, who defeated the Chinese team Newbee in the big final of The International 2017 in the game Dota 2 (Standart, Monitor) ($1 = 1.6634 leva)

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