The higly anticipated Balkan festival Monsters of Rock 2006 in Varna, Bulgaria was officially cancelled and will not take place this year. Here is the official statement by Universum Entertainment posted on thier official web page:

"To our great regret we should inform you that the Second Festival Monsters of Rock in Bulgaria will not take place. Quite recently Mr. Kiril Yordanov, the Mayor of the city of Varna, dramatically changed the terms and conditions of the official authorities that we were familiar with and thus deliberately spoiled the event. He wanted, among other things, to ban the consumption of alcoholic drinks during the festival and to change the closing time so that the event can not happen in a normal and reliable manner.

The 10 months of hard working, organization and great costs spent for advertising, TV- and radio- broadcasts, press, performers, etc. neither impressed the Mayor, nor did they made him abandon his intention.

Although the Municipal Council of the city of Varna has passed a public written resolution authorizing the conducting of Monsters of Rock Festival, it was ignored because the political fights for power in the municipality seem to be more important than doing something for the benefit of the city.

Please send your complaints and proposals to the city of Varna's official Web site at www.varna.bg.
We know that you are as disappointed as we are; we wanted, however, to organize such normal and reliable event as we were promised in order to avoid any mess, disorder and damage whatsoever for all participants, but in return we got this rejection.
We count on your understanding and we apologize once again.

We will, of course, refund all tickets sold for the MoR via www.eventim.bg.
In 2007, MoR will take place in Albena and we will do our best to ensure that all bands scheduled for 2006 MoR will be present thereat."

Source:	monstersofrock.org
Event:	Monsters Of Rock (CANCELED!)