Town mayor joins group going to Crimea ‘to protect Bulgarian interests’
The mayor of Topolovgrad in south-eastern Bulgaria is joining volunteers heading to Ukraine ahead of the March 16 Crimea referendum
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Bulgarian President to be received by Queen during official visit to UK
Bulgarian President Rossen Plevneliev will pay a three-day official visit to the UK from March 17 to 19 2014, the
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Siderov: ‘The media have found me guilty’
Arriving at the Sofia City Investigative Service offices on March 12 where he was to be formally charged with hooliganism
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Banker Vassilev complains to Prosecutor-General about anti-government Protest Network allegations
Tsvetan Vassilev, head of the supervisory board of Corporate Commercial Bank (CCB), has lodged a formal complaint with Bulgaria’s Prosecutor-General
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Bulgarian President seeks closer ties with Qatar
Bulgarian President Rossen Plevneliev has once again reiterated Sofia’s interest in buying gas from Qatar, but bemoaned the lack of
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Bulgaria will not recognise the results of the referendum in Crimea – foreign minister
Bulgaria will not recognise the results of the March 16 2014 referendum in Crimea, foreign minister Kristian Vigenin said after
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Bulgarian initiative group files electoral rules referendum petition
The initiative committee set up last month to gather signatures for a referendum on electoral rules in Bulgaria delivered its
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Peevski, South Stream, Easter bonuses and Ukraine: Notes from a news conference
More than nine months after the formation of Bulgaria’s current government, the leaders of the two parties and their prime
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Anniversary of prevention of deportation of Bulgarian Jews to Nazi death camps commemorated
Bulgaria held its annual commemoration of the 1943 resistance by civil society, religious leaders and some politicians to the deportation
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