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In the late 1940s, the mortality rate for Soviet troops fighting Ukrainian insurgents in Western Ukraine was higher than the mortality rate for Soviet troops fighting in Afghanistan in the 1980s. […]
Bulgarian President Rossen Plevneliev announced on January 29 2014 that he would ask the National Assembly to agree to the holding of a referendum on ...
Bulgaria’s Parliament voted on January 29 to cancel the election of a new head of the inspectorate to the Supreme Judicial Council (SJC), ending the ...
A day after public protests in five Bulgarian cities against a five-member panel of the Supreme Administrative Court clearing the way for construction ...
Bulgaria is to open a consulate-general in the Iraqi city of Erbil, which is also capital of the Iraqi Kurdistan autonomous region. This was decided by the Cabinet in Sofia […]
Centre-right party GERB, Bulgaria’s parliamentary opposition party and also the single largest party in the 42nd National Assembly, said that it would in mid-February 2014 table a motion of no […]
Serbia’s president has dissolved parliament and called for early elections, in an effort to garner more popular support for economic and social reforms. President Tomislav Nikolic on Wednesday scheduled a […]
Strahil Angelov, the Bulgarian Socialist Party MP who caused uproar by visiting Syria and allegedly endorsing the Assad regime – a claim he denies – is no longer head of […]
The “radical Islam” trial in the Bulgarian town of Pazardjik entered its final stage on January 29, with the prosecutors saying in their closing arguments that they no longer supported […]
Bulgaria’s President Rossen Plevneliev said on January 29 that he vetoed amendments passed by Parliament earlier this month, which restricted drug exports. Plevneliev said that all efforts to ensure that […]
