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Pro-Russian separatists in eastern Ukraine say they have started to withdraw their heavy artillery from front-line positions, as required by a peace plan aimed at ending five months of conflict […]
Thick plumes of black smoke are rising over the Donetsk airport, controlled by the Ukrainian forces. It’s been burning for two days, and shootin ...
Ukraine’s battered currency, the hrvynia, hit a new all-time low. The fear is that a population panicked by a year of revolution and war may dri ...
Bulgarian authorities have started 11 pre-trial proceedings in connection with alleged vote-buying ahead of the country’s October 5 early parlia ...
Sofia Court of Appeals ruled on September 23 against the prosecutor’s office request to suspend Tsvetan Gounev, the deputy governor of the Bulgarian National Bank (BNB), who is under investigation […]
Just less than two weeks before Bulgaria’s October 5 2014 early parliamentary elections, a poll by the Exacta Research Group says that Boiko Borissov’s centre-right GERB party has 36.5 per […]
Representatives of various religious faiths – Jewish, Christian and Muslim – are to take part in a Festival of Religions in Bulgaria’s capital city Sofia on September 28 2014. The […]
The cold weather front over Bulgaria brought the first snowfall in the country on September 23, in the high-altitude areas in north-western Bulgaria. The first snow caused no traffic disruption, […]
In the latest twist in the controversy about polling stations in Turkey planned for Bulgaria’s October 5 2014 early parliamentary elections, the Central Election Commission has rejected claims that any […]
About 281 300 leva were collected in six months from fines for breaking Bulgaria’s ban on smoking in enclosed public spaces such as restaurants and bars, according the Ministry of […]
