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It is January 27, International Holocaust Remembrance Day. A day on which international leaders gather, and swear, hand on heart: Never Again. A day on which the reality of the […]
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 […]
Ataka party leader Volen Siderov, in front of cameras, submitted his resignation from Parliament on Thursday (stifles yawn). Now you know. The Siderov stunt was an attempt to draw attention […]
Bulgaria’s Supreme Judicial Council approved by 20 votes to four the nomination of Ivan Geshev to be the country’s next Prosecutor-General, at a marathon meeting overshadowed by protests that blocked […]
A week is left to the end of official campaigning in Bulgaria’s autumn 2019 mayoral and municipal elections, before voters are called to the ballot boxes on October 27. In […]
