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It may be that those involved in negotiations to come up with a coalition government in Bulgaria are getting a trifle giddy from the long days and nights of horse-trading. […]
Romanian prime minister Victor Ponta won 40.3 per cent in the first round of presidential elections held on November 2, with 98.3 per cent of the ballots counted, the country’s […]
A group of drunken youths attacked a Bulgarian and her Ghanaian boyfriend while they were at a bus stop in the Borovo area of Sofia, reports on November 3 said. […]
Romanian prime minister Victor Ponta led after the first round of presidential elections, according to exit polls after voting closed on November 2. Turnout was 52.3 per cent, the election […]
A meeting of more than five hours on November 2 between negotiators from Boiko Borissov’s GERB party and the Reformist Bloc produced a draft statement on a government programme but […]
Prosecutors and agents from Bulgaria’s State Agency for National Security (SANS) swooped on the Lesovo border checkpoint between Bulgaria and Turkey in an operation that began on the night of […]
Pro-Russian separatists in eastern Ukraine began voting Sunday in controversial elections that Kyiv and the West say they will not recognize. The separatists who control parts of eastern Ukraine’s Luhansk […]
Eastern Ukraine’s unrecognized Kremlin-backed separatist republics say they will stage a vote to elect their leaders and legislatures on November 2 in a move that has been condemned by Ukraine and the […]
