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Bulgarian President Rossen Plevneliev has described the results of his three-day visit to China as a “crucial breakthrough” in opportunities for new Chinese investments in Bulgaria and in co-operation between […]
Despite the moralistic comeuppance at the end, Martin Scorsese’s The Wolf of Wall Street is almost destined to drive more youngsters into the stockb ...
There is something sadistic about the industry inflicting movies on us on a near-annual basis that have to do with Jews hiding from the Nazis. From ti ...
The leader of Bulgaria’s centre-right opposition GERB party, former prime minister Boiko Borissov, has said that he will approach the Prosecutor ...
Buglaria’s Supreme Judicial Council (SJC) appointed Hristo Dinev as Sofia City Prosecutor on January 16, filling the vacancy left by Nikolay Kokinov’s resignation in April 2012. Kokinov’s resignation came in […]
Bulgaria’s Cabinet has adopted the controversial new draft Penal Code, which has been under fire from lawyers, human rights groups and business associations, in a suprise move on January 15. […]
A number of films based on real-life events are among contenders for this year’s Academy Awards. The films American Hustle and Gravity received 10 nominations each, followed by 12 Years a Slave, Captain Phillips, Dallas Buyers [ ...
Bulgaria’s top-ranked male tennis player, Grigor Dimitrov, advanced to the third round of the first Grand Slam tournament of the year, the Australian Open, with a straight sets victory (6-3, […]
The European Union’s executive arm is proposing new measures fight extremism in Europe, from racism and xenophobia to the threat of radical Islam. They come amid concerns about the growing […]
The Constitutional Court, Romania’s highest court, decided on January 14 2014 that a series of amendments to the Penal Code that boost lawmakers’ immunity are unconstitutional, after a complaint filed […]
