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Bulgarian publisher Colibri has invited Meir Shalev to Sofia, in co-operation with the Israeli embassy in Bulgaria. The bestselling author will present the Bulgarian version of his novel “A Pigeon […]
The majority of lawmakers in the European Parliament on Thursday voted to halt membership talks with Turkey after Ankara’s post-coup crackdown o ...
Bulgarian President Rossen Plevneliev concluded on November 24 a week of consultations with the National Assembly’s eight parliamentary groups f ...
Bulgaria’s National Assembly voted on November 24 to require motorists to use tyres with a minimum tread depth of four mm every year from Novemb ...
Statements by Bulgarian president-elect Roumen Radev during his election campaign that it should be accepted that the Russian flag is flying over Crimea have been described as “problematic” by Bulgaria’s […]
Hundreds of residents of the Harmanli refugee centre in Bulgaria clashed on November 24 with police and gendarmerie, who fired water cannon as the crowd hurled stones and set fires. […]
Bulgaria’s Parliament approved on November 24 the first reading of amendments providing for the removal of signs, slogans, photos and other objects created during the country’s 1944/89 communist regime and […]
For a third day running, the industrial action by German pilots union Vereinigung Cockpit will result in the cancellation of five Sofia flights on November 25. As on the previous […]
“I’m dreaming of a white Christmas” is the first line of that song. No. Most Sofia inhabitants are not. “Jingle bells, jingle bells, jingle all the way …”. No. “Oh, […]
Macedonia’s VMRO-DPMNE, led by former PM Nikola Gruevski, is accusing the opposition leader, Zoran Zaev of planning to federalise the country by making the Albanian language the second official language […]
