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The President of the Republic of Albania says that he and his family have been put under surveillance by the state’s security structures. Bujar Nishani suggests that representatives of the […]
Outside the Istanbul Military Museum, patriotic music blared from huge speakers on a truck bedecked with Turkey’s national flag. A handful of touris ...
Turnout was low, but respectable The official participation rate for Ukraine’s local elections was 46.5 per cent. This may sound low, but was not mu ...
A Polish court Friday ruled against a US request to extradite Oscar-winning film-maker Roman Polanski (82) over a 1977 conviction for having sex with ...
A denial-of-service attack brought down the website of the Bulgarian President on October 30, just two hours after head of state President Rossen Plevneliev told reporters he had asked the […]
Bulgaria’s Government approved at a special meeting on October 30 the 2016 Budget bill drafted by the Finance Ministry, which also includes provisions revising the revenue and spending allocations for […]
Voters in a large number of Bulgarian cities and towns are being called back to the ballot boxes on November 1 2015 to make their choices in run-off elections for […]
The number of migrants who have arrived by sea in Europe in 2015 is approaching three-quarters of a million – while in the first 10 months of the year, an […]
Ataka party leader Volen Siderov broke the law by campaigning on the October 25 2015 election day, Bulgaria’s Central Election Commission has ruled. On his party’s mouthpiece TV Alfa, Siderov […]
At the end of a week that saw chaos and the marathon detention of people involved in ballot-processing in Sofia, the head of Sofia’s Municipal Election Commission, Dilyana Ivanova, resigned […]
