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The Bucharest court of appeal sentenced Romanian media magnate and politician Dan Voiculescu to 10 years in jail, ending one of the longest and most high-profile corruption trials in the […]
Ukraine’s government has picked 172 individuals and 65 companies that will face sanctions for “support and financing of terrorism” or responsibl ...
The Sofia Comics Expo 2014, which organisers describe as the first international exhibition of comics to be held in Bulgaria, will be on at the Shipka ...
When in 2013 it was clear that political circumstances made an immediate return to power by Boiko Borissov impossible, a cartoon depicted him rolling ...
Bulgaria’s prosecutor’s office said on August 8 that it pressed charges of fraud against two individuals who sought to claim a 5.03 million leva (about 2.57 million euro) jackpot of […]
Bulgaria’s three-time champions Ludogorets Razgrad were handed a short trip across the Danube River, drawing Steaua Bucharest as their opponent in the Uefa Champions League play-off round. The first match, […]
Archaeologists working in the Kraimorie area of Bourgas on the Bulgarian Black Sea coast have found a Christian basilica said to date from the fifth century. The discovery of the […]
Ten people were injured in an explosion at the Terem munitions plant in the town of Kostenets, 60km south-east from Bulgarian capital city Sofia, on August 8. The blast was […]
The 2014 Perseid meteor shower will peak between August 10 and 13 – but August 10 is also the date of the year’s record Supermoon, which may take away some […]
