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In oil-rich Azerbaijan, people vote for president Wednesday in an election that holds little suspense. An Aliyev – either father, Haydar, or son, Ilham – has ruled Azerbaijan for 32 […]
Having already spent about 17 million leva (about 8.5 million euro) on advertising to explain the switchover from analogue to digital broadcast transm ...
Bulgaria will soon get direct financial assistance from the European Union to cope with the influx into the country of Syrian refugees, Interior Minis ...
The International Monetary Fund is cutting its forecast for economic growth throughout the world — mostly because expansion has slowed in Chin ...
Ankara is facing mounting pressure from its NATO allies over its announcement that a Chinese company is favored to win a contract to co-produce a Turkish missile defense system. NATO’s […]
An attempted blockade of Plamen Oresharski’s car outside an art gallery and the arrest of six people after a scuffle with police outside the Cabinet office were some of the […]
Bulgarian President Rossen Plevneliev has pledged that if Parliament approves a backtrack on the ban on smoking in enclosed public places such as restaurants and bars, he will veto the […]
A renewed wave of protests by securities holders and depositors that have been gravely affected by the measures which accompanied the bailout of Cyprus threatens to stir up social upheaval […]
The Constitutional Court said on October 8 that Delyan Peevski in place as a member of Parliament in spite of his short-lived appointment in June as head of the State […]
Bulgaria’s anti-government protesters reacted to unconfirmed media reports that the Constitutional Court had said that Delyan Peevski was still an MP by calling for a mass turnout for evening protests. […]
