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The Bulgarian Orthodox Church’s governing body, the Holy Synod, has decided to include a blessing for Simeon Saxe-Coburg as “His Majesty Simeon II, Tsar of the Bulgarians” in public and […]
Russian state media are ramping up nationalism ahead of the 70th anniversary of “Victory Day” on May 9, preparing to air films and TV programs ded ...
Not since the one-two of Andrew Niccol’s Gattaca in 1997 and Alex Proyas’s Dark City in 1998 has a big-budget, big-return films posited the kind o ...
With Ukraine’s economy on the brink of disaster, the International Monetary Fund agreed a $17.5 billion package for Ukraine in February. Some think ...
The great Spanish tenor José Carreras is to say farewell to his Bulgarian audience with a concert in Sofia at the National Palace of Culture on December 3 at 7pm. […]
Sofia City Court ruled on April 30 find Vesselin Georgiev, a former head of Bulgaria’s road infrastructure agency, not guilty on charges of malfeasance in office and breaching public procurement […]
Bulgaria’s national Ombudsman Konstantin Penchev said that he had the feeling that someone wanted to close down TV7, perhaps as an act of personal revenge. A day after a controversial […]
Unemployment in Bulgaria in March 2015 was 10.4 per cent, down from 12.1 per cent in March 2014, according to seasonally-adjusted figures released by European Union statistics office Eurostat on […]
Improved expectations in Bulgaria’s construction and retail trades pushed up the overall business climate indicator in April 2015 by 2.5 percentage points month-on-month, the National Statistical Institute said on April […]
Ongoing road works on the major thoroughfares into Sofia raised the prospect of long traffic jams for thousands of motorists expected to leave Bulgaria’s capital city for the upcoming three-day […]
