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The Bulgarian Orthodox Church’s governing body, the Holy Synod, decided on June 20 2012 to introduce the “honorary title of Archon”, to be conferred on those laity who had made […]
The jackpot in Bulgaria’s six of 49 game in the state lottery fell on July 8 2012, after having built up to more than six million leva (about three million […]
Full responsibility for the violence in Syria lies with the regime and the Syrian people are put into a position of self-defence, Bulgarian Foreign Minister Nikolai Mladenov told participants in […]
Bulgaria ranked at the tail end of European statistics on intermarriage with foreign nationals, the European Union’s statistics bureau Eurostat said, as quoted by Bulgarian news agency BTA. The rate […]
If you don’t know much about Vratsa, rest assured that you’re not the only one; it is way off the beaten tourist track, it’s not on the coast and is […]
Investigators searched the basement of the apartment building of Bulgaria’s ‘Banitsa Bandit’, Georgi Enev, on July 6 2012 in a quest to find the 1.5 million leva that the security […]
Representatives of more than 90 countries and of the Syrian opposition are to gather in Paris on July 6 2012 for a meeting of the Friends of the Syrian People, […]
Bulgarian Prime Minister Boiko Borissov became the latest public official on July 5 to declare that the forest fire on Vitosha mountain near Sofia had been contained. Flanked by numerous […]
More than half of Bulgarians polled in a survey in May 2012 saw the situation in the country as “unbearable” and the economic situation as worsening, according to the Open […]
Bulgarian police have seized 12 tonnes of hashish from a warehouse in the village of Mirovyane on the outskirts of Sofia, the Interior Ministry said on July 5. According to […]
