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UEFA’s control, ethics and disciplinary body announced on October 29 the penalties it was imposing on the Bulgarian Football Union on charges including racist behaviour in the stadium during the […]
Bulgaria’s Foreign Ministry said on October 29 that it had handed Russian ambassador Anatoly Makarov a note setting a 24-hour deadline for a Rus ...
Voters in 97 municipalities in Bulgaria, including 18 major cities, will be invited back to the ballot boxes on November 3 in a second round of mayora ...
Bulgarian Socialist Party (BSP) leader Kornelia Ninova has poured scorn on claims by GERB party leader and Prime Minister Boiko Borissov of “unp ...
A regular monthly poll by Bulgaria’s National Statistical Institute (NSI) found a gloomier business climate in October 2019. Previous polls had found that business sentiment in September 2019 was largely […]
The annual Remembrance Sunday service will be held in the military section of Sofia Central Cemetery on November 10 2019. The service is in commemoration of all those who lost […]
Ballot papers in Bulgaria’s October 27 local elections offered the option of ticking the box “I don’t support anyone” and thousands of voters took up the offer. This was the […]
Bulgarian police issued a call on October 29 for motorists to drive with caution over the next three days, with their cars ready for winter conditions, given forecasts of a […]
Bulgaria issued 11 864 first residence permits in 2018, up from 10 958 in 2017 and 7942 in 2016, according to figures released by European Union statistics agency Eurostat. Of […]
There was a series of minor earthquakes in the Bulgarian town of Dospat in the Rhodope mountains on October 28, small stuff in the 2.6 Richter scale range, and hardly […]
