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Two Bulgarian Orthodox Church bishops were shortlisted on March 16 2014 as candidates to be the next Metropolitan of Rousse: Naum of Stob and Tiveriopolski bishop Tihon. The two were […]
During an emergency Cabinet of Ministers meeting on March 16, Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk said that Ukraine’s eastern border has been almost completely shut down with Russia. Many Russians have […]
The names of those who will top the election candidate lists of major parties in Bulgaria’s May 25 2014 European Parliament elections are emerging, with few surprises and with recycling […]
Russia has chosen the path of international isolation while the Bulgarian Socialist Party is repeating the Kremlin’s talking points on Ukraine, centre-right opposition party GERB said in a media statement […]
Kristian Vigenin, foreign minister in the current Bulgarian Socialist Party government, came under fire from his own senior fellow party members at a closed meeting in the Borovets resort for […]
Two Bulgarians, aged 40 and 33, were arrested by police in the Greek city of Thessaloniki for allegedly possessing about 12kg of cocaine, said to be worth close to 900 […]
A European Union directive intended to discourage smoking, especially among young people, is to come into force in May 2014 and the 28 EU countries will have two years to […]
Vladimir Putin is right. The West has interfered massively in Ukraine. Let me explain. Last year, about 15 per cent of Russian adults traveled outside the former Soviet Union. By […]
The name dispute will be the main topic which will dominate the presidential and early parliamentary elections in Macedonia. The priority of political parties will be this topic, which for […]
The Russians are coming. Or rather, they may be looking to expand, and their recent actions in Ukraine don’t sit well with an anonymous protester in Prague who has stuck […]
