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The Bulgarian business climate indicator in March 2014 was 1.2 percentage points higher than in February, the National Statistical Institute (NSI) said on March 28. This was due to the […]
Bulgarian lawmakers passed at second reading the amendments to the law regulating the activity of the National Audit Office (NAO), overhauling the management of the institution. The bill envisions that […]
A leading international human rights group is calling the Turkish government’s decision to block YouTube a “disastrous move” for freedom of expression and the right to access information. Human Rights […]
The Bulgarian government has budgeted 22 million leva (about 11 million euro) for the country’s May 25 2014 European Parliament elections. Bulgaria’s voters will be elected 17 members of the […]
Whenever you think of a planet with rings around it, Saturn probably comes to mind first. Jupiter, Uranus and Neptune – the four outer giant planets – also have rings, […]
Four Canadian citizens of Bulgarian origin were arrested on March 27 on charges of debit card fraud, accused of siphoning off more than one million Canadian dollars from ATMs in […]
The coming local elections in Turkey are very crucial for the political future of Recep Tayyip Erdogan, given that he has said that the results will take the form of […]
A duo of cyclists plan to travel 1700km in 15 days, visiting nine different SOS Children’s villages to raise awareness about the charity’s goals, organisers said on March 27. Daniel […]
With presidential elections now less than two months away, the field of contenders is filling up. The latest edition to the race, the former Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko, announced her […]
A majority of U.N. member states told Moscow Thursday that they will not recognize the annexation of Ukraine’s Crimea region. In a vote on a resolution put forward by Ukraine […]
