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Israel’s foreign ministry has formed a team of experts to fly to Bourgas and assist local authorities in the investigation of the bomb explosion that left a reported seven people […]
Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on July 18 2012 that “all signs” regarding the bomb explosion on a bus at the airport at Bulgaria’s Black Sea city of Bourgas […]
Six people are dead and more than 20 injured after an explosion on a bus carrying Israeli tourists at the airport in Bulgaria’s Black Sea city of Bourgas, local authorities […]
Bulgaria’s Prime Minister Boiko Borissov, annoyed at newspaper antics and alleging that some of his country’s journalists are “serving the mafia”, has asked Germany’s Konrad Adenauer and Hans Seidel foundations […]
It is a noble thing, no doubt, to teach a child the virtues of saving, the alchemy of many coins transmogrifying into valuable banknotes. In Bulgaria, however, it is no […]
Members of Bulgaria’s centre-right Union of Democratic Forces (UDF) have chosen Karlovo mayor Emil Kabaivanov as the party’s new leader, a move seen as sealing the end of prospects of […]
Disenchantment with Bulgaria’s centre-right GERB Government and its leader, Prime Minister Boiko Borissov, after the Forestry Act amendments controversy and a swathe of electricity, natural gas and other price hikes […]
Nikolai Mladenov has a vision of the countries of the Western Balkans integrated into the European Union and Nato, and the countries of the Middle East and North Africa – […]
The press barons of Bulgaria are whacking each other with rolled-up newspapers, figuratively speaking, in a media war with profound commercial and political implications – and one in which platoons […]
The slogan of bTV, Bulgaria’s most-viewed privately-owned television channel, is “all points of view”. The channel, which ratings claim to have consistently the highest viewership in the country, has for […]
