Bulgarian Orthodox Church elects Bishop Antonii new Metropolitan of Western and Central Europe
The governing body of the Bulgarian Orthodox Church, the Holy Synod, has elected Konstantine Bishop Antonii (35) as the new
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More than half of Foreign Ministry directorate heads are former State Security – report
Twelve of the 21 directorate heads at Bulgaria’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs formerly collaborated with the country’s communist-era secret service
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Fence against refugee flow at Bulgaria’s border with Turkey ‘to be ready by end of February’
Building of a 170km-long wire fence between the villages of Lesovo and Krainovo along Bulgaria’s border with Turkey is to
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Sofia University cancels classes on October 28 because of anti-government ‘Occupy’ protest
Sofia University management have cancelled classes on October 28 and will hold a special meeting to discuss the anti-government “Occupy”
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The case of baby Maria: Understanding Europe’s Roma
For more than a week now much of the global media has been fixated on “baby Maria,” a young blond
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‘Occupation’ of lecture hall at Sofia University to continue indefinitely
Students at the St Kliment Ohridski University in Sofia, who “occupied” the university’s largest lecture hall on October 23, said
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Bulgaria speeds process of granting refugee status
Bulgaria has granted formal refugee status to 170 people in the past 20 days alone, bringing the count in the
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Bulgarian government trying to dig itself out of land sale moratorium hole
The Bulgarian Socialist Party government wants to find a way to scrap the resolution handed to it by Parliament, supported
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Bulgarian couple questioned in ‘Maria’ case
DNA tests were to be conducted on a Bulgarian couple who were questioned by police for more than three hours
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