Vigils to be held for murdered Bulgarian television journalist
Mourning vigils are to be held in Sofia and other cities on the evening of October 8 for Viktoria Marinova,
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Bulgarian Ataka leader Siderov wants his party to hold post of Interior Ministry chief secretary
Volen Siderov, leader of the Ataka party – part of the United Patriots, the ultra-nationalist grouping that is the minority
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Sixty per cent of Bulgarians do not go to compulsory annual medical check-ups – report
About 60 per cent of adult Bulgarians do not attend the mandatory annual medical examination, according to National Health Insurance
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Bulgarians re-enact September 1944 operation that stopped Wehrmacht reaching Kyustendil
A group of Bulgarians have re-enacted a little-known clash in which, in September 1944, the Ninth Infantry Regiment of Plovdiv
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Two border police employees face discipline over latest security lapse at Sofia Airport
Two border police employees at the Sofia Airport border checkpoint are facing disciplinary punishment as a result of an incident
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Defence Ministry honours controversial figure Markov in spite of objections from Bulgarian Jews
Bulgaria’s Defence Ministry went ahead with conferring honours on Dyanko Markov, a 96-year-old veteran of the Union of Bulgarian National
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Poroshenko tells Bulgarian PM he dreams of a new road linking Odessa to Varna
Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko has told visiting Bulgarian Prime Minister Boiko Borissov: “I dream that we will sit together in
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EC welcomes deal on 230M euro for better water service and infrastructure in Bulgaria
The European Commission said on October 5 that welcomes the signature the previous day of an agreement between the Fund
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Bulgarian Parliament elects judge Krassimir Vlahov to Constitutional Court
Krassimir Vlahov, the former deputy head of Bulgaria’s Supreme Court of Cassation, was elected by Parliament on October 5 to
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