Mayor of Bulgaria’s Bourgas rejects Christians’ call for ban on topless bathing
The mayor of the Bulgarian Black Sea city of Bourgas has rejected a petition by local Protestant, Roman Catholic and
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Bulgaria’s consular office in Moscow issues record number of visas
A total of 7623 visas were issued by the Bulgarian consular office in Moscow in just one day, the Foreign
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Turkey to resume restrictions that caused protests by Bulgarian lorry drivers
Turkey will from June 1 resume restrictive measures on Bulgarian freight lorries and could even tighten these restrictions, which in
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Generator at Bulgaria’s Kozloduy nuclear plant taken offline to repair fault
A turbo generator at Bulgaria’s Kozloduy nuclear power station was taken offline for some hours in a planned operation to
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Socialist PM-designate Oresharski names new candidate investment projects minister
Plamen Oresharski, designated by the Bulgarian Socialist Party as its prime minister-designate, found himself presenting a slightly changed list when
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Candidate minister in Oresharski’s proposed government withdraws because of ‘dirty’ campaign against him
Even before Plamen Oresharski could present to President Rossen Plevneliev his proposed cabinet, one of the candidate ministers – Kalin
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A cabinet for a crisis
Prefacing Plamen Oresharski’s announcement on May 27 2013 of the proposed cabinet, Bulgarian Socialist Party leader Sergei Stanishev portrayed a
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Bulgaria’s proposed Oresharski cabinet unveiled
The proposed members of Bulgaria’s new cabinet, to be headed by Plamen Oresharski, were revealed at a Bulgarian Socialist Party
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Bulgarian hospitality industry presses new government for backtrack on smoking ban
Determined to take up the Bulgarian Socialist Party and the party’s prime ministerial candidate Plamen Oresharski on promises to backtrack
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