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Archaeologists working at the Episcopal Basilica site in Bulgaria’s second city Plovdiv have found a large stone slab, estimated to date from the third century, inscribed in Ancient Greek with […]
A Chamber Concert on July 15 will open the 10-day programme, which includes nine concerts, of the 2019 Allegra Festival and Academy in Bulgaria’s city of Rousse on the Danube. […]
A total of 1305 non-EU nationals were ordered to leave Bulgaria in 2018, European Union statistics agency Eurostat said on July 12, in a report on immigration law enforcement across […]
The sitting of Bulgaria’s National Assembly scheduled for July 12 was cancelled after a failure to gather a quorum, with Bulgarian Socialist Party and Movement for Rights and Freedoms MPs […]
Bulgaria’s Defence Minister Krassimir Karakachanov signed on July 11 the contracts to buy eight Lockheed Martin F-16 fighter jets, one day after the country’s Cabinet sanctioned the deal. In a […]
Summer 2019 is again seeing numbers of dead dolphins washing up on the shore of Bulgaria’s Black Sea coastline, but in much lower numbers compared to previous years, the country’s […]
The Speaker of Bulgaria’s National Assembly, Tsveta Karayancheva, has ordered an investigation into whether the ouster of Ataka leader Volen Siderov as leader of the parliamentary group of the United […]
From 2021, Bulgarian citizens will have a choice of getting a passport with a validity of either five or 10 years, Parliament decided on July 11, approving the second reading […]
The Council of Europe’s anti-torture committee (CPT), in a report published on July 11, praised certain improvements in the conditions and treatment of foreigners detained under aliens legislation in establishments […]
A day after Bulgaria’s Cabinet approved a deal with the US to buy eight F-16 fighter jets for $1.25 billion, paying for them in one go, the country’s Deputy Defence […]
