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Bulgaria will be the host of the Junior Eurovision 2015 song contest, Bulgarian National Television (BNT) director-general Vyara Ankova said on January 26. Ankova was speaking after meeting, along with […]
An influenza epidemic has been declared in the Bulgarian Black Sea city of Varna, and schools will be closed from January 27 until February 3, the reg ...
With unofficial estimates projecting a halving of the number of Russian and Ukrainian tourists to visit Bulgaria this year, the country is to campaign ...
Bulgarian state railways BDZ plans to launch a tender for a contract to buy new trains capable of reaching speeds up to 160 km/h, mainly to be used on ...
“From this moment there is a government in the country. The ANEL are giving a vote of confidence to Alexis Tsipras. The Prime Minister (Alexis Tsipras) will go to the […]
Assen Berbatov, the younger brother of former Manchester United striker Dimitar, was handed a suspended sentence of 14 months in jail, with a three-year probation period, reports in Bulgarian media […]
Rositsa Yanakieva, one of the deputy speakers of Bulgaria’s Parliament, has died at the age of 60. Yanakieva was a member of Georgi Purvanov’s socialist breakaway party ABC and a […]
Greece’s anti-austerity Syriza party and its leader Alexis Tsipras appear headed to a decisive national election victory, in a vote lodged against repeated European demands for fiscal restraint in Athens. […]
Polish President Bronisław Komorowski has said that the anniversary commemorations of the liberation of the Nazi death camp in Auschwitz to be held on January 26 should not be used […]
