Bulgaria’s Defence Ministry tangles with Russian MiG corporation over fighter jet engines
Russia’s MiG aircraft corporation said that recent statements by Bulgarian officials that the Air Force’s fighter jet engines could not
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Author: Clive Leviev-Sawyer
Bulgarian President Radev on the non-flying fighter pilots: ‘Dissatisfaction understandable’
Bulgarian President and former Air Force commander Roumen Radev has effectively sided with the MiG-29 pilots who declined to take
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Bulgarian PM Borissov on the Graf Ignatievo fighter pilots: ‘I fly when I have to’
Bulgarian Prime Minister Boiko Borissov has levelled criticism at the Graf Ignatievo fighter pilots who for two days have not
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Fighter pilots at Bulgaria’s Graf Ignatievo air base again do not take part in training flights
Bulgarian Air Force MiG-29 fighter pilots at Graf Ignatievo air base again did not take off for scheduled training exercises
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Bulgarian Defence Minister: Reports of mutiny by Air Force pilots exaggerated
Bulgarian Defence Minister Krassimir Karakachanov told a hastily-convened news conference on October 24 that reports that Air Force pilots had
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Bulgarian EU Presidency: Pointless to pursue portrayal of a Potemkin village
As many – including Bulgarians – who grew up in the communist bloc would remember, there was a Soviet animated
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Mixed signals from Bulgarian Defence Ministry over reports fighter pilots refused training flights
The leadership of Bulgaria’s Defence Ministry went into damage control mode on October 24 following media reports that fighter pilots
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Bulgarian Air Force pilots refuse training flights because of safety concerns, demotivation – reports
Scheduled training flights at the Bulgarian Air Force’s Graf Ignatievo base were suspended on October 24 as combat pilots massively
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European Jewish Congress applauds Bulgarian Government for officially adopting the working definition of Anti-Semitism
The European Jewish Congress (EJC) welcomes the October 18 decision by the Bulgarian Government to adopt the Working Definition of
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