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Pro-Russian separatists in eastern Ukraine are planning to disrupt the country’s presidential election scheduled for May 25, but Ukrainian officials maintain that the polls will be held. For the separatists, […]
The Serbian government was to declare a state of emergency in the whole country due to heavy rains and floods, prime minister Aleksandar Vucic said on May 15 2014. “This is […]
The image of an adviser to Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan kicking a mourner who was protesting the prime minister’s Wednesday visit to Soma has exacerbated tensions as four Turkish […]
A Supreme Administrative Court ruling against billboards by Alfa Ataka TV – overruling a previous decision by the Central Election Commission (CEC) – as well as the CEC penalising Volen […]
Bulgaria’s Supreme Judicial Council (SJC) ruled on May 15 to suspend two senior judges indicted in an EU funds embezzlement investigation – the head of the Sofia Court of Appeals Vesselin […]
The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) said on May 14 that the continued tension between Russia and Ukraine could have a significant negative impact on the economic recovery […]
Bulgaria’s economy grew by 0.2 per cent in the first quarter of this year using seasonally-adjusted data, compared to the last three months of 2013, the National Statistical Institute (NSI) […]
Bulgarian doctors across the country took part in a symbolic protest on May 15 2014, wearing ribbons and warning that a full protest could result by the end of the […]
Hackers attacked the official website of the Bulgarian Orthodox Church, leaving a message saying that this was revenge for the February 14 assault on Dzhumbaya mosque in Plovdiv by an […]
Three agreements for hydrocarbon exploration in the areas of Ioannina, the Gulf of Patras and Katakolo were signed on May 14 2014 between the Greek state and contractors. A ceremony was […]
