Bulgarian prosecutors formally indict former finance minister
Bulgaria’s prosecutor’s office said on January 13 that it has formally indicted former finance minister and deputy prime minister Simeon
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Month: January 2017
More than 20 Bulgarian customs officers held in corruption bust in Varna
Bulgarian prosecutors and anti-organised crime police swooped on customs offices in the Black Sea city of Varna, making more than
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Bulgaria annual CPI records 0.1% inflation in December 2016
Bulgaria’s annual consumer price index (CPI) recorded 0.1 per cent inflation in December 2016, compared to 0.5 per cent deflation
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Bulgaria’s Zlatitsa sets January 12 temperature record at minus 25 deg C – colder than the North Pole
The Western Bulgarian town of Zlatitsa set a temperature record for recent days of minus 25 degrees Celsisus on January
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Bulgaria’s Dossier Commission has announced more than 12 000 communist secret service agents in 10 years
Bulgaria’s Dossier Commission, the body charged by law with announcing the identities of those in public life who worked for
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Bulgaria halts electricity exports on January 13 as winter cold bites
Bulgarian Energy Minister Temenuzhka Petkova has ordered that the country halts exporting electricity on January 13 2017 to ensure power
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Bulgaria’s winter weather crisis: Sea at Bourgas freezes, Danube still iced over
The sea at Bulgaria’s southern Black Sea Bourgas port and the Sarafovo fishing harbour froze on January 12, while shipping
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Bulgaria’s exports in January-November 2016 up 1.5% y/y – NSI
Bulgaria’s exports in January to November 2016 were 1.5 per cent higher than in January-November 2015, while imports dropped by
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Bulgaria’s Plevneliev among European leaders urging Trump against ‘grand bargain’ with Putin’s Russia
Bulgaria’s outgoing head of state, President Rossen Plevneliev, is among 17 European leaders who are signatories to a letter to
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