Five more flights cancelled at Sofia Airport on November 24
The decision of pilots union Vereinigung Cockpit to extend their strike for a second day, on November 24, has prompted
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Bulgaria proposes posthumous state honours for anti-communist guerrilla fighters
Bulgaria’s outgoing government proposed on November 23 that the President confer posthumous state honours on 30 leaders of the Goryani,
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Borissov: Everyone wants to govern but when the time comes, they run like hell
Presiding at the first Cabinet meeting after his government’s resignation was accepted by Parliament, outgoing Bulgarian Prime Minister Boiko Borissov
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Bulgarian Defence Minister faces criminal charges over MiG-29 deal
Bulgarian prosecutors have lodged criminal charges against Defence Minister Nikolai Nenchev in connection with his conduct in concluding a deal
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Bulgaria’s political crisis: Constitutional Court rules on a tale of two presidents
Bulgaria’s Constitutional Court has clarified the respective roles of incumbent President Rossen Plevneliev and president-elect Roumen Radev in dealing with
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Bulgaria’s outgoing Defence Minister expects to face charges over MiG-29 engines deal
Nikolai Nenchev, Defence Minister in Boiko Borissov’s outgoing government, said on November 22 that he expected to face criminal charges
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Strike causes cancellations of five Lufthansa flights at Sofia Airport on November 23
Industrial action by the pilots union Vereinigung Cockpit has prompted the cancellation of five Lufthansa flights from Sofia Airport on
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President Plevneliev’s consultations with parties leave Bulgaria no closer to a government
Bulgarian head of state President Rossen Plevneliev continued his series of consultations with political parties on November 22, in an
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Exhibition ‘A Lasting Faith: Orthodoxy in the Holy Land’ at Alexander Nevsky crypt in Sofia
An exhibition entitled “A Lasting Faith: Orthodoxy in the Holy Land”, of photographs by Israel’s Dafna Tal, opens on the
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