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Amid growing tension between Sofia and Ankara, Bulgarian police on Friday removed barricades protesters had erected at at least two border crossings with Turkey. Bulgarian nationalists had attempted to prevent Bulgarian-Turkish […]
Campaigning in Bulgaria’s March 26 2017 elections closes – or is by law, is required to, lest anyone carry on beyond this pont – at ...
In recent years, Bulgarian authorities have eased restrictions on the sale of alcoholic beverages on election days, banning the sale and consumption o ...
A lorry from which a group of 30 migrants were rescued after it caught fire was “identical” to one owned by a company involved in the cons ...
Bulgarian nationalist protesters against “electoral tourism” – the bussing-in of Bulgarian passport-holders from Turkey to vote in the March 26 elections – blocked the border checkpoint at Kapitan Andreevo on [&helli ...
In a report on the bussing-in of voters from Turkey to Bulgaria for the country’s March 26 elections, public broadcaster Bulgarian National Television said on Friday that four buses from […]
Bulgarian passport-holders coming into the country to vote in the March 26 elections would now be coming via Greece instead of directly across the border because of planned blockades by […]
A poll by the Exacta Research group released on March 24, the final day of campaigning in Bulgaria’s parliamentary elections, saw Boiko Borissov’s GERB as having 31.2 per cent support […]
The press in foreign countries does not always know what is really going on in Bulgaria, depending on the publication. Several newspapers, even within in the European Union, thought President Radev […]
Emil Jassim, a candidate MP for former justice minister Hristo Ivanov’s Yes Bulgaria coalition, was assaulted in central Sofia on March 23, a few days ahead of the parliamentary election. […]
