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The Bulgarian debate on sanctions, and on relations between the European Union and Russia more generally, has been coloured by Russian propaganda against the West and by seemingly ubiquitous conspiracy […]
March 11 was a day of good news for Ukraine with the International Monetary Fund approving a $17.5 billion assistance programme and the US deciding to ...
The Romanian government approved on March 11 2015 the establishment of a national council subordinated to the Health Ministry and entrusted with fight ...
US ambassador in Sofia Marcie Ries participated in a round-table discussion on media ownership, hosted by think-tank Center for Study of Democracy in ...
The appeals court in Serbia’s capital city of Belgrade has ruled to overturn a first-instance court’s decision to extradite Tsvetan Vassilev, the majority shareholder in Bulgaria’s Corporate Commercial Bank (CCB), […]
Bulgaria’s Cabinet appointed three new members to the Commission for Consumer Protection (CPC) on March 11, with Dimitar Yotov as the new head of the watchdog, the government media service […]
More than 190 emergency teams from EVN Bulgaria, energy distributor in the southern part of the country, were on March 11 continuing to work to restore power supply disrupted by […]
The European Parliament has voted to remove MEP Sergei Stanishev’s immunity from prosecution over secret documents that went missing when Stanishev was prime minister of Bulgaria. The request to remove […]
A few hours after Deputy Prime Minister Roumyana Buchvarova had the interior ministry added to her portfolio, Bulgaria’s cabinet said on March 11 that it was proposing the appointment of […]
A skier was rescued after being buried by a large avalanche below Todorka peak on Bulgaria’s Pirin mountain, reports on March 11 said. Mountain Rescue Service teams from Bansko rushed to […]
