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Russia has urged Ukrainian authorities to negotiate a cease-fire, after separatist rebels in southeast Ukraine retreated to the two largest cities they control, Donetsk and Luhansk. But Ukraine has vowed […]
A 70-year-old man died in Borissova Gradina when a tree fell during a violent hailstorm that lashed the Bulgarian capital city Sofia on July 8, delug ...
Former talk show host Nikolai Barekov’s populist Bulgaria Without Censorship (BWC) party spent by far the most among the parties that competed i ...
Bulgaria’s troubled National Assembly, due to be dissolved on August 6 ahead of early elections, appears set to be able to resume sittings after ...
Bulgarian Socialist Party MP Kiril Dobrev issued a public apology on his Facebook page after a storm broke around him for saying in an interview, when asked whether a woman […]
Russia’s annexation of Ukraine’s Crimea region unnerved Russia’s neighbors from Kazakhstan in the south to the Baltic states in the north. Lithuania’s newly re-elected President spoke about her neighbor to […]
Pro-Russian separatists retreating ahead of a Ukrainian military offensive in eastern Ukraine dug in Monday in the city of Donetsk, building barricades and erecting checkpoints along main roads. As Ukrainian […]
A significant number of European Union countries have signalled to Sofia their support for Bulgaria’s current European Commissioner Kristalina Georgieva to be the bloc’s next foreign policy chief – but […]
As it heads into its final few weeks, a question marks hangs over what if anything Bulgaria’s National Assembly will do, as the latest attempt to negotiate its tasks faces […]
The Ukrainian army is preparing to dislodge Kremlin-backed separatists from Donetsk and Luhansk, the provincial capitals of two oblasts where 15 percent of Ukraine’s population lives. The Interior Ministry’s announcement [&helli ...
