PR deal adds pressure on Bulgaria’s socialist leader
The past six months have presented few opportunities for Bulgarian socialist leader Sergei Stanishev to score PR victories, either at
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Student protesters who occupied Sofia University say they will sue rector for slander
The group of student anti-government protesters who carried out the second short-lived “occupation” of the central campus of Sofia University
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Panagyurishte treasure is state property, Bulgaria’s Supreme Administrative Court rules
The Panagyurishte treasure is state property, a seven-member panel of Bulgaria’s Supreme Administrative Court has ruled, rejecting an appeal lodged
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Bad weather causes continued traffic disruption in north-eastern Bulgaria
Traffic disruptions continued on January 30 in north-eastern Bulgaria, the area affected the worst by the snowstorms earlier this week,
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Bulgarian Parliament rejects far-right Ataka’s anti-gay law
Amendments to Bulgaria’s Penal Code proposed by ultra-nationalist Ataka party leader Volen Siderov that would have imposed jail and huge
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New Penal Code controversy: Numismatists and antique dealers are rattled
The Bulgarian Socialist Party government’s proposed new Penal Code has lurched into yet another controversy, this time by upsetting coin
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Bulgarian President wants referendum on electoral law 2-in-1 with European Parliament elections
Bulgarian President Rossen Plevneliev announced on January 29 2014 that he would ask the National Assembly to agree to the
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Bulgarian Parliament cancels judiciary inspectorate chief election
Bulgaria’s Parliament voted on January 29 to cancel the election of a new head of the inspectorate to the Supreme
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Cabinet ministers to address Parliament on Strandzha construction controversy
A day after public protests in five Bulgarian cities against a five-member panel of the Supreme Administrative Court clearing the
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