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Bulgaria’s Foreign Ministry has sent the United Nations a formal letter nominating Irina Bokova as the country’s candidate to be the next UN Secretary-General, the ministry said on February 9 […]
A Bosnian Serb general convicted of genocide, war crimes and crimes against humanity died in The Hague Monday evening, a spokesman for the United Nati ...
The ninth annual national archaeological exhibition “Bulgarian Archaeology 2015” opens at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences’ Nationa ...
The Danish Girl, this year’s much talked-about transgender movie, puts on a very strange face right at the outset, for no apparent reason. Given the ...
Bulgaria’s prosecutor’s office said on February 9 that it was seeking a hearing in the European Committee on Crime Problems (CDPC) concerning the difficulties in securing the extradition of Tsvetan […]
Bulgaria is continuing to try to exert pressure on the Greek government and to seek European Commission intervention to end the blockade of the Bulgarian-Greek border by protesting Greek farmers. […]
Bulgaria’s Energy Ministry said on February 9 that it would ask the board of directors at the Bulgarian Energy Holding (BEH), the umbrella corporation for state-owned assets in the energy […]
Bulgaria’s exports to Russia were down 24.7 per cent year-on-year in 2015 while imports from Russia decreased by 20.3 per cent, Bulgaria’s National Statistical Institute (NSI) said on February 9 […]
A group of five Bulgarian Border Police staff have been arrested in a special operation over allegations they accepted bribes to help traffickers smuggling foreign nationals from Turkey to Western […]
Lyutvi Mestan, the ousted former leader of the Movement for Rights and Freedoms, said on February 9 he was founding a new party to be called the Democrats for Responsibility, […]
