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A protest entitled “No to Nazis on our Streets” is to be held in Sofia on February 16 as a counter to the Lukov March scheduled for the Bulgarian capital […]
Five new names have been added to the bill of Hills of Rock 2019, which will take place from June 28 to 30 at Plovdiv’s Rowing Canal, according to the […]
In five European Union countries, the majority of scientists and engineers were women: Lithuania (57 per cent female), Bulgaria and Latvia (both 53 per cent), Portugal (51 per cent) and […]
The economic crimes squad in Bulgaria’s second city Plovdiv have taken two people into custody in connection with false residence identity documents for foreigners. The arrests, of a 48-year-old man […]
Repairs and restoration work on the landmark Alexander Nevsky cathedral in Bulgaria’s capital Sofia would cost about four million leva (about two million euro), according to an interdepartmental commission. A […]
Bulgaria is systematically working together with other European Union countries to implement the activities outlined in the Sofia Declaration adopted in May 2018 at the EU-Western Balkans summit, Foreign Minister […]
A man who ordered the demolition of a dune that was obstructing his view of the sea at Bulgaria’s Black Sea coast Smokiniya campsite may be instructed to put it […]
The Bulgarian Orthodox Church’s governing body, the Holy Synod, has called for a complete rewrite of the government’s National Strategy for the Child 2019-2030, urging a ban on terminations of […]
A post claiming – contrary to historical fact – that Jews carried out a “genocide of 15 million Germans” is among antisemitic items on the website Anonymous Bulgaria. The text […]
The UK ambassador in Sofia, Emma Hopkins, published an open letter on February 8 on the topic of Brexit, addressed to British nationals living in Bulgaria. The full, unedited, text […]
