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Bulgaria is awaiting open corridors for further evacuations from Ukraine, Bulgarian Prime Minister Kiril Petkov told a news conference on February 26, as Bulgaria moved to bring home its nationals […]
The first two buses with 56 Bulgarian and Ukrainian citizens, that left the Ukrainian city of Odessa on February 25, arrived in Bulgaria on February 2 ...
Russia has closed its air space to air carriers from Bulgaria, Poland and the Czech Republic. The closure took effect on February 26 at 3pm Moscow tim ...
Bulgaria’s Defence Ministry has announced a scheduled test of a modernised fire control system involving the firing of standard T-72 shells. The ...
Bulgaria has issued the Code Orange warning of dangerous weather for eight districts for February 27 because of forecast heavy snow and strong winds. The eight districts are Blagoevgrad, Smolyan, […]
Bulgaria’s National Assembly has given its final approval to the 2022 Budget Act late on February 25, after four days of sittings, including one that went into the early hours […]
Bulgaria’s Minister of Health Assena Serbezova has signed an order easing the Covid-19 regulations for people arriving from Ukraine. The order takes effect as of February 26, and comes against […]
The Association of European Journalists (AEJ) has called for an EU-wide ban on RT – formerly known as Russia Today – saying that it played a key part in spreading […]
From February 28, all school pupils in Bulgaria will attend in-person classes, the Education Ministry said. The ministry said that regional health inspectorates had lifted the restrictions because of the […]
Seventy-six people in Bulgaria who had tested positive for Covid-19 died in the past day, bringing the country’s death toll linked to the disease to 35 433, according to the […]
