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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 pi ...
August in Osage County can be scorching — with temperatures in the 90s (mid-30s in degrees Celsius) — but even in the sweltering heat there is not ...
The group of student anti-government protesters who carried out the second short-lived “occupation” of the central campus of Sofia Univers ...
The Panagyurishte treasure is state property, a seven-member panel of Bulgaria’s Supreme Administrative Court has ruled, rejecting an appeal lodged by the granddaughter of one of the men who found […]
Greek prime minister Antonis Samaras, in a speech to the parliamentary group of the governing party New Democracy, set the tone for the coming 2014 European Parliament elections. He made […]
Traffic disruptions continued on January 30 in north-eastern Bulgaria, the area affected the worst by the snowstorms earlier this week, but no new weather warnings had been issued for the […]
Amendments to Bulgaria’s Penal Code proposed by ultra-nationalist Ataka party leader Volen Siderov that would have imposed jail and huge fines for “public manifestations of homosexuality” such as taking part […]
The Bulgarian Socialist Party government’s proposed new Penal Code has lurched into yet another controversy, this time by upsetting coin collectors and antique dealers by its vague provisions intended to […]
Scheduled boat trips to St Anastasia Island off the coast of Bulgaria’s Black Sea city of Bourgas will begin in May 2014, with trips five times a day, Bourgas Municipality […]
