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The recent elections in Turkey are under increased scrutiny, with results being challenged across the country not only by political parties, but also, for the first time, by non-partisan groups […]
Unlike in Crimea, pro-Russian uprisings in eastern Ukraine shouldn’t have come as a surprise to anyone in Kyiv. But once again, it appears that ...
At the start of the electoral campaign in Macedonia on April 5, political parties unveiled their programmes and social and economic offers to attract ...
The military conflicts in Europe in the 20th century proved that there is no alternative to peace, Bulgarian President Rossen Plevneliev said in talks ...
Bulgaria’s Central Election Commission (CEC) and the Interior Ministry have agreed that traditional May 24 parades celebrating Saints Cyril and Methodius and the traditions of Cyrillic script can go ahead […]
The identity of the terrorist who died in the July 2012 bomb attack on a group of Israeli tourists at Bulgaria’s Bourgas Airport has been established, Interior Minister Tsvetlin Yovchev […]
A handful of pro-Russian separatists in the barricaded Donetsk Oblast government administration declared the creation of the Donetsk People’s Republic on April 7, as a few hundred activists continued to […]
Bulgaria’s State Energy and Water Regulatory Commission (SEWRC) held a public hearing on April 7 in its proceedings to repeal the operating licences of the country’s three power distribution companies, […]
Ukraine’s interior ministry said pro-Russian gunmen have seized state security headquarters in the eastern city of Luhansk, the scene of anti-government protests Sunday. Authorities said police have closed all roads […]
Four Interior Ministry employees are to be punished after an internal investigation into the March 14 shootout in the Bulgarian town of Lyaskovets between police and a man said to […]
