Heavy security for court case as Chief Mufti claims Kurdjali Historical Museum building
A strong police presence was deployed as Kurdjali District Court prepared to begin hearings in a court application by the
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Bulgarian President Plevneliev: We are witnessing a democratic revolution in Ukraine
Bulgarian President Rossen Plevneliev has called for the people of Ukraine, saying “we are witnessing a democratic revolution” in that
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Russia reacts ‘with indignation’ to latest spray-painting of Soviet Army monument in Sofia
Russia’s foreign ministry said on February 24 that “the latest act of vandalism on the monument to the Soviet Army
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Half the signatures for referendum on electoral reform already collected – organiser
More than half of the 500 000 signatures from Bulgarian citizens needed to petition for a national referendum on electoral
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Row in Bulgaria over cost of fence at Turkish border
The cost of 9.6 million leva for a fence at Bulgaria’s border with Turkey to keep out would-be refugees has
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President Plevneliev: Visit to Sochi ‘not political’
Bulgarian President Rossen Plevneliev, in Sochi for the final day of the 2014 Olympic Games, said that he did not
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Bulgarian organised crime group bust in international operation
Bulgarian and Spanish judicial and law enforcement authorities, working in close co-operation with Eurojust and Europol’s European Cybercrime Centre (EC3),
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Election code approved by Parliament, faces further hurdles
Bulgaria’s 42nd National Assembly completed on February 21 the marathon second-reading vote of the controversial Bulgarian Socialist Party-proposed election code,
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Question marks loom larger over proposed new election code
Bulgaria’s members of Parliament spent several hours on February 20 voting on the second reading of the proposed new election
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