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It may be a sign of how tight the race is for top spot in Bulgaria’s May 2019 European Parliament elections that Prime Minister Boiko Borissov’s GERB party made much […]
It was the contrast of light and dark, this February night in Sofia. In one part of the Bulgarian capital city, an event to proclaim the values of acc ...
In Sofia and various parts of Bulgaria, a number of political leaders and other groups paid tribute on February 1 to the many thousands of victims of ...
The craters left by the Allied bombing of Bulgaria’s capital city Sofia were convenient. Most suitable for pre-dug mass graves. To these scars i ...
Ten per cent of Bulgarians polled in a Eurobarometer survey said that antisemitism was a problem in the country, while 64 per cent said that it was not a problem. […]
It began on January 6 with the assault of Bulgarian paratrooper Corporal Valentin Dimov. It has grown, as with such sagas before, to a renewed focus on Bulgaria’s Roma minority. […]
Some months ago, it was announced that Bulgaria’s second city Plovdiv would celebrate the opening of its status as European Capital of Culture 2019 with an open-air event on January […]
A number of events are scheduled for Bulgaria in 2019; well, some are scheduled, others are – to riff on Rumsfeld – the unknown unknowns. Lacking a crystal ball, for […]
Journalists in Bulgaria who may have expected the sharply chilly late autumn evening of November 16 to present nothing other than a graceful slide into the relaxation of a Friday […]
For most Bulgarian officials, having your taxpayer-funded car taken away would be a matter of inconvenience, and possibly indignation. For Ombudsman Maya Manolova, it has put her on the high […]
