Bulgaria faces latest controversy over TV news in Turkish
More than 14 years after they began, news bulletins in Turkish on public broadcaster Bulgarian National Television (BNT) are again
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German activists head to Greece after symbolic ‘art performance’ at Bulgarian-Turkish border fence
More than 80 human rights activists from Germany held a symbolic protest near the Bulgarian-Turkish border fence marking the 25thanniversary
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Bulgaria’s collective memory of communist era is fading, poll says on 25th anniversary of fall of Berlin Wall
Bulgarians born during the country’s transition from communism to democracy know almost nothing about the socialist era in Bulgaria, or
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Bulgarian Parliament votes Borissov into office as Prime Minister, approves cabinet
Bulgaria’s 43rd National Assembly voted on November 7 2014 to approve Boiko Borissov as Prime Minister. The vote was 149
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Bulgaria shuts down 129 ‘hidden websites’ as part of international operation
Bulgaria’s State Agency for National Security (SANS) said on November 7 that it shut down 129 websites providing services on
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Bulgaria’s ailing socialist party looks at leadership changes, cost savings
The Bulgarian Socialist Party, now officially in opposition with Parliament poised to vote in a new government, not only faces
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Bulgaria’s proposed Borissov cabinet unveiled
These are the nominations to Bulgaria’s next Cabinet, as agreed by Boiko Borissov’s GERB, the Reformist Bloc and socialist ABC:
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It’s a deal: Agreement on Bulgaria’s coalition government signed
Boiko Borissov, leader of the largest party in Bulgaria’s new Parliament, and the leaders of the centre-right coalition Reformist Bloc
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Bulgaria’s socialist breakaway ABC to get deputy prime minister post in coalition cabinet – party leader
Ivailo Kalfin, until now parliamentary group leader of Georgi Purvanov’s socialist minority party ABC, will be deputy prime minister and
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