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Officially or otherwise, a number of candidates have emerged to succeed Sergei Stanishev at a Bulgarian Socialist Party congress on July 27 that will elect a new party leader. There […]
Around the latter half of the afternoon of July 4, the streets of Sofia and most towns and villages in Bulgaria were somewhat quieter than usual. A sp ...
British actor (House MD, Blackadder) and musician Hugh Laurie and his Copper Bottom Band are to give their first concert in Bulgaria at the National P ...
The word “franchise” is not used explicitly, but it is embedded throughout this self-conscious film whose entertainment value vastly outweighs men ...
Sprawling but not unwieldy, Richard Linklater’s Boyhood takes the eventful but not overly dramatized life of an ordinary teenager from a broken home to construct an epic tale of one […]
She is all about authenticity and giving the music industry the middle finger. She has some talent, but she is not looking for any big gigs anytime soon, and yet […]
In the latest blow from heavy weather in Bulgaria this summer, a violent storm broke over the town of Lovech on July 10, bringing a barrage of rain and hail […]
Ukraine’s recent military successes – the nation’s flag is now flying over Sloviansk and Kramatorsk in Donetsk Oblast – are coming with even greater human costs. Some 223 Ukrainian servicemen […]
The European Commission said on July 10 that it opened five new infringement proceedings against Bulgaria, as part of its monthly package of infringement decisions. The biggest issue – and one […]
Bulgaria’s capital city Sofia ranked 172nd in a list of 211 cities in the Mercer 2014 Cost of Living Survey. Sofia was up from 181st place in the 2013 survey, […]
