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On the eve of the first day that nine banks will begin payouts of claims on deposits in the Corporate Commercial Bank (CCB), officials in Bulgaria said that preparations were […]
Sofia City Court approved on December 3 the prosecutor’s office request to suspend Tsvetan Gounev, the deputy governor of the Bulgarian National ...
Bulgaria’s cabinet has approved proposed changes to the Penal Code that will enable courts to bar those convicted of sexual violence against chi ...
Bulgaria’s lawmakers failed to adopt a declaration of support for the South Stream gas pipeline, with familiar dividing lines re-emerging during the ...
Life expectancy in Bulgaria at birth in 2012 was 74.4 years, below the European Union average, according to the Health at a Glance: Europe 2014 joint report by the European […]
The volume of retail trade in Bulgaria in October 2014 was three per cent higher than in October 2013, according to figures released on December 3 by European Union statistics […]
Bulgarians see a slight improvement against corruption in the public sector in the past year, going by Transparency International’s annual corruption perceptions index – but the country still ranks less […]
The World Bank has revised its growth projections for Russia from 0.5 per cent up to 0.7 per cent in 2014 and from 0.3 per cent down to zero per […]
Russia is predicting it will slide into a recession next year. Moscow’s economic development ministry said Tuesday it is forecasting the Russian economy will contract eight-tenths of a percent in […]
Ukraine’s parliament approved the new Cabinet of Ministers at the December 2 evening session. For the first time in history, three portfolios were given to the nationals of Georgia, Lithuania […]
