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Moscow increasingly speaks of Russia’s “sphere of influence.” And, on Thursday, President Vladimir Putin took a major step in securing that position by creating a shared market of former Soviet […]
A Ukrainian general was among the 12 Ukrainian servicemen killed while aboard an Mi-8 helicopter that Kremlin-backed insurgents shot down near Slovian ...
Campaigning is underway in Kosovo ahead of its snap June 8 parliamentary elections, with all the predictable complexities that means. On May 28, the o ...
The archaeology season is fully underway in Bulgaria, despite the rainy weather that has swept over the country in recent months, with 2014 already se ...
Neighbors is a Seth Rogen comedy, which means he doesn’t stop talking, his character’s sexuality is in a gray zone, and he shows his chest — one of the things […]
Bulgaria’s weather office has issued a “Code Orange” hazardous weather warning for western and parts of southern Bulgaria for May 30, with thunderstorms and heavy rain on the way. The […]
The Sofia City Court sentenced Tsvetan Tsvetanov, MP for opposition party GERB who served as interior minister in Boiko Borissov’s cabinet, to four years imprisonment on May 29. Tsvetanov was […]
In spite of the Bulgarian Socialist Party being trounced in European Parliament elections, the parties of the ruling axis – it and the Movement for Rights and Freedoms – now […]
Pro-Russian separatists in eastern Ukraine have shot down a Ukrainian military helicopter, killing 14 government troops, including a general. Acting President Oleksandr Turchynov told parliament Thursday that “terrorists” used a ...
Bulgaria’s Commission for Protection of Competition (CPC) said on May 29 that it fined Sofiyska Voda, the water utility in Bulgarian capital city Sofia owned by utilities conglomerate Veolia, 4.8 […]
