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The firing of Interior Ministry chief secretary Georgi Kostov is the latest episode to have irked GERB leader Boiko Borissov’s party, which repeatedly has alleged that Ognyan Gerdzhikov’s caretaker government […]
By the time of the February 22 deadline for applications, there had been only one bid to rent voting machines to the Central Election Commission for Bulgaria’s March 26 2017 […]
Georgi Kostov, dismissed as Bulgaria’s Interior Ministry chief secretary on February 22, said that he had approached the Prosecutor-General about earlier pressure on him from the caretaker Prime Minister and […]
An international team of astronomers, using an array of ground and space telescopes, has discovered an astonishing seven Earth-sized planets in a system just 40 light years away. Water, water […]
Bulgaria’s Energy Ministry was drafting the necessary tender documentation to pick a contractor that would build the gas inter-connector pipeline between Greece and Bulgaria, targeting early 2018 for the start […]
With the deadline for political parties and coalitions competing in Bulgaria’s March 26 2017 early parliamentary elections having passed, the names of the major contestants in the country’s largest cities […]
Bulgaria’s prosecutor’s office said on February 22 that it has finished its investigation into the events that led to the collapse of the Corporate Commercial Bank (CCB) in 2014, indicting […]
Bulgarian President Roumen Radev signed the decree firing Interior Ministry chief secretary Georgi Kostov on February 22, the presidency said in a statement. The presidential decree comes after Bulgaria’s caretaker government heade ...
Sofia City Administrative Court ruled on February 22 to overturn the city hall regulation that led to an increase in the public transport ticket price hike in June 2016, on […]
The trial in Sofia City Court of Bulgaria’s former defence minister Nikolai Nenchev on charges of malfeasance in office over a deal to overhaul MiG-29 fighter jet engines got underway […]
