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Going by the claims of organisers, more than a million signatures have been collected to demand that Bulgaria’s Parliament agrees to the holding of a national referendum on electoral law […]
The Turkish government is pushing through legislation extending the powers of the country’s National Intelligence Agency, or MIT, and increasing the agency’s protection from prosecution. The move has drawn widespread [… ...
Bulgaria’s biggest annual cinema event, Sofia International Film Festival, opens on March 6 at the National Palace of Culture (NDK) with a screening of The Judgment, Bulgarian director Stefan Komandarev […]
These guys really existed. They were art historians, architects, curators and artists, and they played a very important part in saving countless works of art confiscated by the Nazis during […]
When you’re watching an aircraft hijack movie, you know everything will turn out alright in the end, except if it’s based on a true story, like United 93. But even […]
The U.S. is alleging that too many governments around the world are tightening controls on free expression and using repressive laws to “deny citizens their universal human rights.” In the annual […]
The marginalisation of the Roma minority remains Bulgaria’s most pressing human rights problem, according to the United States state department annual human rights report, released on February 27 2014. The […]
The amount of malicious software targeting mobile devices is exploding, according to security firm Kaspersky Lab. Kaspersky said that in 2013 “nearly 100,000 new malicious programs for mobile devices were […]
Romanian PM Victor Ponta said on February 27 that there would no abrupt change in his government’s fiscal policies this year, rejecting speculations he may seek to introduce an incremental […]
This week thousands rallied in the military port city, waving Russian flags and chanting slogans against the people they describe as fascists and extreme nationalists who have taken over the […]
