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Bulgarian prosecutors have begun investigating an allegation by Defence Minister Nikolai Nenchev that he was offered a bribe and received death threats in bids to induce him to extend a […]
Bulgaria’s Parliament adopted a resolution recognising the 1915 “mass killing” of Armenians, refraining from using the term “genocide” after the intervention of the centre-right majority partner in government. ...
European Union leaders meeting in special session in Brussels to discuss a response to the crisis around the series of deaths of several hundred migrants trying to reach European shores […]
The Romanian government headed by prime minister Victor Ponta and the Bulgarian government led by Prime Minister Boiko Borissov are convening in a joint meeting in Craiova on April 24 to discuss […]
In his latest film, The Face of an Angel, director Michael Winterbottom does his best to slowly massage fictitious elements into a real-life story, all the while reminding us that […]
FBI Director James Comey said, in a handwritten letter that was handed to the Polish Ambassador in Washington Ryszard Schnepf yesterday, that he regrets his remarks suggesting that Poland shared […]
Visitors to the Sofia Science Festival will be able to take one step beyond and go on a virtual tour of CERN, the European Organisation for Nuclear Research, best known […]
The European Court of Justice ruled on April 23 that Bulgaria breached several EU directives in the telecommunications sector, failing to implement recommendations made by the European Commission as part […]
Bulgaria’s Parliament is embroiled in controversy over a proposal to formally recognise the Armenian Genocide – though it appears that plans for the vote to be held on April 24, […]
Bulgaria, Greece and Romania have agreed the terms to build a “vertical gas corridor” of gas pipeline interconnectors. The memorandum of understanding was signed after the first meeting of a […]
