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The price of vignette stickers, mandatory for motor vehicles travelling on roads outside urban areas in Bulgaria, will remain unchanged in 2015. Current vignettes are valid until January 31 2015. […]
Russian president Vladimir Putin said on December 1 that state-owned gas monopoly Gazprom would shelve plans to build the South Stream gas pipeline under the Black Sea, meant to bypass […]
Europol and US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations (HSI), together with 25 law enforcement agencies from 19 countries, have seized 292 domain names that were illegally selling […]
The European Investment Bank, the European Union’s lending arm, is providing a $186 million loan to Ukraine’s government for modernising the Ukrainian part of Urengoy – Pomary – Uzhgorod pipeline […]
A key condition to normalising the situation in Ukraine is an immediate end to all military action on Ukrainian territory, Bulgarian Foreign Minister Daniel Mitov told Russian deputy foreign minister […]
NATO says Russia is violating a truce in eastern Ukraine by sending in convoys with advanced weapons and personnel reinforcements for pro-Russia separatists fighting Ukrainian government troops. “We see a […]
Bulgarian capital city Sofia has been named as a member of UNESCO’s Creative Cities Network, for its film industry. Launched in 2004, the UNESCO Creative Cities Network is celebrating its […]
Bulgaria’s Government approved at a special meeting on December 1 the 2015 Budget bill drafted by the Finance Ministry, the final step before it is sent to Parliament. The bill, […]
Public protests are being organised by Bulgarians on Facebook against the appointment of controversial nationalist Patriotic Front MP Slavi Binev to head the new National Assembly’s committee on culture and […]
Poland’s Donald Tusk has taken over as European Council president, charged with convening summits of the bloc’s 28 leaders. The former Polish premier has promised “ruthless determination” to fix Europe’s [&hell ...
