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The Sofia Globe has a message to the trolls posting Facebook comments in response to our stories, especially those about Covid-19. We are doing our level best, with strained and […]
Notch one up for us, you sad, hatred-filled, antisemitic pseudo-patriots. On this night in February 2020, your torchlight Lukov March, your tribute to ...
The speech to the nation by Bulgarian President Roumen Radev on February 4 in which he said he was withdrawing his confidence in the government was ju ...
It is January 27, International Holocaust Remembrance Day. A day on which international leaders gather, and swear, hand on heart: Never Again. A day o ...
Bulgarian media reported, with some breathlessness, that should US President Donald Trump receive an invitation to visit Bulgaria’s capital city Sofia, he would accept. This much emerged as Trump received […]
The second round of Bulgaria’s mayoral elections is over, and thus, all of the mayoral elections. In those places where the elections went to a second round, voters had a […]
Four years ago around this time, Bulgarian Prime Minister Boiko Borissov, leader of his centre-right GERB party, was rampant. GERB had won every major city and taken citadels it had […]
To channel Highlander, Sunday is coming – and there can only be one. In Sofia and 18 other cities that are capitals of districts, run-off elections are being held to […]
Spare a thought for Mladen Mladenov, Iliya Zyumbilev and Milena Dimitrova. Few else may. In the October 27 mayoral elections in Sofia, Plovdiv and Varna, respectively, these three got the […]
In Bulgaria’s second city Plovdiv, mayoral elections are not a simple matter. It was so, not for the first time, in 2015 as matters went down to the wire in […]
