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Ukraine on Wednesday announced it will halt government funding to those areas of its eastern regions controlled by Russian-backed separatists. Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk said Wednesday the cutoff of funding […]
The German embassy in Bulgaria is one of 80 German embassies and consulates-general worldwide inviting participants to mark the anniversary of the Nov ...
Walking the streets of Berlin today, it’s easy to forget the Berlin Wall once sliced the city in two, effectively imprisoning half the city’s popu ...
Bulgaria is set for a coalition government made up of Boiko Borissov’s GERB and the Reformist Bloc, with the support of at least one other party ...
More than half of the journalists in an anonymous survey carried out by Konrad Adenauer and Reporter foundations, the findings of which were presented on November 5, acknowledged that their […]
Bulgaria’s centre-right GERB and Reformist Bloc moved swiftly on November 5 to negotiate with the nationalist Patriotic Front and minority socialist party ABC to secure a deal on a coalition […]
Bulgaria’s caretaker cabinet has decreed a special public holiday period around New Year 2015, for which it also declared special working days to compensate. Declaring January 2 to be a […]
Bulgaria’s second-largest carrier Telenor said on November 5 that it would start selling the iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus phones in select stores on November 7. Released in September […]
At a formal ceremony at the Presidency in Sofia on November 5, President Rossen Plevneliev handed GERB party leader Boiko Borissov a mandate to seek to form a government. Borissov, […]
The Bulgarian cabinet office’s inspectorate-general has recommended that a law be drafted to govern the issuing of certificates of Bulgarian origin, a vital step for foreigners who want to claim […]
