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Rerouting Sofia-Moscow-Delhi flight     ``There are only two seats in Aeroflot airlines available for rerouting Sofia-Moscow- Delhi flight to Sofia-Rome-Delhi flight. The additional charge for rerouting will be Bulgarian currency 10 Lev. ‘’ Three of us Indian journalists had arrived at the Aeroflot office in Sofia when we learnt that we could change the route of our return flight to India and also get a transit two-day transit visa to visit Rome. A group of 30 journalists drawn from various English, Hindi and other languages and also from different states in India was completing a certificate course in Bulgaria. This incident dates back to April 1986. The journalism course was organised by the International Organisation of Journalists (IOJ) and the candidates were selected by the Indian Federation of Working Journalists. In 1980s, the IOJ used to organise such journalism courses every year in various USSR-allies East European nations like West Germany, Italy, Czechosl...