Orbán and the death penalty: Hanging on to a dream
The issue of whether to restore capital punishment should “stay on the agenda”, Hungarian prime minister Viktor Orbán has said
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Month: May 2015
Bulgaria to increase staff to issue visas to Russian and Ukrainian tourists
Bulgaria is to post additional staff to consular offices in Moscow, St Petersburg, Kyiv and Odessa to meet the expected
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Massive Russian parade marks end of World War 2 in Europe
Thousands of soldiers and scores of tanks rumbled across Red Square and dozens of aircraft new and old roared overhead
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Armed clashes in Kumanovo between police and armed group
There were armed clashes on May 9 between police and an armed group in the centre of Kumanovo in northern Macedonia.
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Don’t call me king during liturgies, Saxe-Coburg tells Bulgarian Orthodox Church
Bulgaria’s former monarch and former prime minister Simeon Saxe-Coburg has written to the Bulgarian Orthodox Church’s governing body the Holy
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Bulgaria’s political divisions over Europe Day, VE Day and the show in Moscow
Bulgarian head of state President Rossen Plevneliev took part on May 9 in a succession of events to celebrate Europe
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Failed Russian spacecraft burns up
An unmanned Russian supply ship has burned up over the Pacific Ocean after a failed cargo run to the International
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Political strains drive wedge between Turkey, Russia
A few months ago, bilateral relations between Turkey and Russia were on the upswing, buoyed by a close bond between
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Of paper and the problem of digital disintegration
An invitation to bring a favourite book to a scientific lecture is unusual. But it is not as if you
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