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Russian civil servants with property abroad favoured Bulgarian real estate because of low prices and mild climate, business daily Vedomosti said on August 20. Vedomosti sifted through thousands of asset […]
One of Bulgaria’s largest police trade unions said on August 20 it was prepared to hold protest rallies if the Cabinet did not increase the wages of ...
Following protests by residents of central Sofia, the city hall decided on August 20 to delay by one month, to October 1, the introduction of paid par ...
The wildfire near Bulgaria’s Rila Monastery was spreading, reports in Bulgarian media said on August 20, but it was no danger to the iconic monaster ...
Conflicts between Bulgarian media groups and the decline of media freedoms in Bulgaria has drawn the attention of the European Commission, The New York Times reported on August 19. The […]
The political campaigns of U.S. President Barack Obama and Republican challenger Mitt Romney have sharpened their attacks against each other with heated discussions on taxes. Romney’s decision to limit disclosures […]
WikiLeaks founder and wanted fugitive Julian Assange made a defiant statement from the balcony of the Ecuadorian Embassy in London Sunday, railing against the United States and other countries he […]
Authorities in Los Angeles say movie director Tony Scott, director of such Hollywood blockbusters as Top Gun, Days of Thunder and Beverly Hills Cop II, has died after jumping from […]
“Who breaks a butterfly upon a wheel?” – Alexander Pope, 1735 This summer, Vladimir Putin tried to break three of Moscow’s butterflies on the creaking, iron wheel of Russia’s court […]
