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Those Sharks and Jets of socialist politics in Bulgaria, Sergei Stanishev’s Bulgarian Socialist Party and Georgi Purvanov’s ABC, remained at daggers drawn on the eve of the BSP national council […]
Unemployment in the 28-member European Union was 10.7 per cent in December 2013, EU statistics office Eurostat said, reporting unemployment in Bulgari ...
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) urged Bulgaria to pursue “bold structural reforms […] to lift growth, create jobs, and enhance productiv ...
Bulgarian Regional Development Minister Desislava Terzieva says that she has initiated a process to change controversial plans that pave the way for d ...
Bulgaria’s European Commissioner, church Patriarch in call for religious and ethnic tolerance Bulgaria’s European Commissioner Kristalina Georgieva and Bulgarian Orthodox Church Patriarch Neofit have emphasised the importance of protect ...
Shocking video images of youths with shaved heads brutally beating a man in front of a bar in Nitra have shocked much of Slovakia. Perhaps at least as surprising as […]
As cities in Ukraine remain in the grip of protests and political crisis, a rating agency has downgraded the country’s sovereign debt. Russia, meanwhile, says it will put a loan […]
All Out, an international nongovernmental organization calling for the equality of LGBT individuals, announced a Global Speak Out to support Russian gays and lesbians and call for Olympic sponsors to […]
The past six months have presented few opportunities for Bulgarian socialist leader Sergei Stanishev to score PR victories, either at home or abroad, in his capacity as president of the […]
With cooperation between Russia and the West still mostly taboo, despite the détente that was on the horizon two decades ago, it seems the days of pitting spies from the […]
