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MOSCOW, April 30 The branch of the Russian company Lukoil in the Bulgarian Burgas donated 300 thousand euros to the city for improvement, reports the local portal «Chernomorye».
The donation agreement was signed at an official ceremony by the mayor of Burgas Dimitar Nikolov and the chairman of the board of Lukoil Neftochim Evgeniy Manyakhin. The donated funds will be used for the construction of a new children's playground and fitness area on the Central Beach of Burgas — with sports equipment and a rope bridge. 
«We are present here not only as a business, we live here. We are part of this community and this region. In October it will be 25 years since we are in Burgas. We feel the support of the city because conditions for business have been created here. Twenty five years is a whole generation,” said the head of Lukoil Neftochim.
In early December, Lukoil announced that, due to discriminatory laws, it would review its strategy regarding assets in Bulgaria and analyze the possibility of selling its business in the country.
Russian Ambassador to Bulgaria Eleonora Mitrofanova stated in this regard that the authorities’ decisions regarding the Lukoil Neftochim refinery in Burgas have nothing to do with the civilized regulation of large businesses, and warned that this enterprise cannot be purchased at a reduced price, despite to all restrictions on its activities.
Blumberg, in its publication on the situation in Burgas in early April, reported that local residents fear the consequences of a change in the ownership of a business they “speak fondly of.”