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It is a bad sign for a film when the viewer realizes just five minutes into the screening that she is in fact watching nothing more than a glorified car […]
Euphoric yet laced with a melancholy desperation, We Are Your Friends is Hollywood’s take on the quick professional ascent of a 20-something electro ...
Life in an unsuccessful rock band is hard. A few films have looked at these hard luck stories, blending music with the endless struggles of those who ...
A draft bill meant to create a new government body to fight corruption and conflict of interest failed to win enough support to pass at first reading ...
Bulgaria’s embassy in Moscow said on September 3 that remarks by ambassador Boiko Kotsev reported by Russian media, which appeared to criticise the EU sanctions imposed on Russia over the […]
Russia’s food safety watchdog Rosselkhoznadzor said on September 3 that it banned all imports and re-exports of “products subject to quarantine” from Bulgaria, after it was notified by its Bulgarian […]
A Nato Force Integration Unit was opened at the Defence Ministry in the Bulgarian capital city Sofia on September 3, simultaneously with similar structures in Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, Poland and […]
Migrants hoping to travel westward have flooded into the main train station in Budapest after it was reopened by police, but Hungarian officials say there will be no trains heading […]
Opinion polls published this week suggest the Greek general election on September 20 will be a very close race to call – not just for the front-runners but for smaller […]
Bulgarian taxi drivers have got into the people-trafficking business, charging between 200 and 300 leva (about 102 to 153 euro) to transport four or five people from the Turkish border […]
