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On the eve of Bulgaria’s former ruling party GERB’s national congress, one that is expected to usher in some change in the top ranks of the party, the main issue […]
Bulgarian President Rossen Plevneliev has spoken out sharply on statements by the government on a bilateral agreement with North Korea in areas includ ...
The Movement for Rights and Freedoms, the party led and supported in the main by Bulgarians of Turkish ethnicity and which holds sway in the current r ...
Hurling paving stones, rocks and fireworks, a large mob of protesters – many of them from football fan clubs – smashed windows of Plovdiv’s ...
Organisers of the far-right “Lukov March” torchlight procession have vowed to defy the ban on the march imposed by Sofia municipality. The march, held annually since 2003 in honour of […]
Bulgaria’s economy grew by 0.7 per cent in the last quarter of 2013, compared to the previous three months, the National Statistical Institute (NSI) said in a flash estimate on […]
Bulgaria’s consumer price index shrank by 0.2 per cent in January 2014, with year-on-year figure showing 2.2 per cent deflation, data from the National Statistical Institute (NSI) showed on February […]
The lorry blockade at the Bulgarian-Turkish border has been cleared but the dispute that led to it has not. An agreement to bring forward talks between representatives of Sofia and […]
Apart from various VIPs plunging into vineyards to try their hand at vine-pruning, Bulgaria’s annual Trifon Zarezan celebration on February 14 also gives a glimpse of the performance of the […]
Sofia’s landmark Luvov Most (Lions Bridge) intersection will be closed to traffic for most of this year, owing to the major overhaul starting on February 15. The 22 million leva […]
