Two Bulgarian Border Police among six arrested in bust of people-trafficking operation at Sofia Airport
Six people, including two Border Police, have been detained in an operation against an organised crime group that was trafficking
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Month: May 2017
Bulgarian PM meets initiators of Nobel Prize nomination for Bulgarian Orthodox Church for role in preventing deportation of Jews to Holocaust
Bulgarian Prime Minister Boiko Borissov has held talks with three of the initiators of the campaign for the Nobel Peace
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Bulgaria watchdog ends Lukoil anti-trust probe, finds no wrongdoing
Bulgaria’s Commission for Protection of Competition (CPC) has ended its investigation of two subsidiaries of Russian privately-held oil major Lukoil,
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Bulgaria levies 300 000 leva fine on Montupet car parts plant in Rousse
Bulgarian authorities have imposed a fine of 300 000 leva, or about 153 400 euro, on the plant owned by
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War of words over Cyrillic script continues as Putin unites Bulgaria – against him
Bulgarian politicians across the political spectrum seldom agree about anything – but Russian president Vladimir Putin has inspired a rare
Read moreFormer Greek Prime Minister Lucas Papademos wounded in bomb attack
A bomb hidden inside an envelope has exploded in Athens inside the car of the former Greek Prime Minister, Lucas
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Flying in circles: Bulgarian PM hints at further years of delay in acquiring new jet fighters
Bulgaria’s long-delayed process of acquiring new fighter jets for the Air Force looked set to stall again as Prime Minister
Read moreMayor of Bulgaria’s Assenovgrad municipality taken into custody a week after chief architect arrested
In an operation by the Bulgarian Special Prosecutor’s Office and the State Agency for National Security, the mayor of Assenovgrad
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Plovdiv District Court sentences man to four years in jail for Tobacco Town warehouses fire
Plovdiv District Court sentenced Lyubomir Danchev (44) to four years in jail on May 25 2017, finding him guilty of
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