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Sixty thousand Bulgarian children began first grade on September 17, about 3000 fewer than in the 2017/18 school year, a result of the country’s demographic crisis. The figures were announced […]
Bulgaria’s sole nuclear power plant, at Kozloduy on the Danube River, said that it has shut down the 1000MW sixth unit for scheduled annual maintenance and refuelling. The reactor was […]
The tit-for-tat politicking between Bulgarian President Roumen Radev and leading figures from Prime Minister Boiko Borissov’s ruling majority continued on the weekend, with sniping exchanged over issues from the coming […]
A cameraman from Bulgarian television station BTV was assaulted during an anti-government protest in Sofia on September 16, with participants demonstrating hostility to the media, reports from the scene said. […]
More than 100 volunteers turned out on September 16 to take part in an initiative by the Organization of the Jews in Bulgaria “Shalom” and Sofia municipality to clean off […]
The leader of the far-right Ataka party, Volen Siderov, and of Parliament’s smallest party, Vesselin Mareshki, have tabled a resolution in Bulgaria’s Parliament that if approved would oblige Prime Minister […]
Bulgaria’s Agriculture Ministry made much of the fence put up at the land border with Romania to try to prevent African Swine Flu entering the country – boasting how rapidly […]
Close to four weeks after the Svoge bus crash disaster in which 17 people died, Bulgaria’s Parliament voted on September 14 to make the fitting and wearing of seatbelts in […]
Special prosecutors raided two Sofia restaurants on September 14 in connection to an investigation into alleged money-laundering and illegal cigarette manufacturing, the prosecutor’s office said in a statement. The goal […]
Bulgarian Deputy Economy Minister Alexander Manolev said on September 13 that he was declining his nomination to be Tranport Minister, citing what he called co-ordinated attacks by a “group of […]
