Voting begins in Bulgaria’s November 3 second-round mayoral elections
Polling stations opened on the morning of November 3 in municipalities in Bulgaria where second-round mayoral elections are being held
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Petition launched to save Swimmy, the Bulgarian bear with a taste for a spa pool
An online petition has been launched to save a young brown bear that has taken to indulging in night swims
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Three charged in northern Bulgarian town for vote-buying in local elections – report
The District Prosecutor’s Office in the town of Gorna Oryahovitsa in northern Bulgaria has lodged criminal charges against three men
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Bulgaria in diplomatic protest to France over Macron’s reported comments to far-right magazine
Bulgaria’s Foreign Minister Ekaterina Zaharieva has ordered the country’s ambassador in Paris, Angel Cholakov, to deliver a protest note to
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Bulgaria’s 2019 local elections: Notes from week five
To channel Highlander, Sunday is coming – and there can only be one. In Sofia and 18 other cities that
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Bulgarian PM praises Russia for not reciprocating over expulsion of ‘spy’ diplomat
It is an honour that, to this day, Russia has not reciprocated to Bulgaria’s expulsion of a diplomat alleged to
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With two months remaining to 2019, Bulgaria’s road death toll is 516
The road death toll in Bulgaria for the first 10 months of 2019 is 516, according to provisional figures cited
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Bulgaria January-September 2019 Budget surplus at 1.26B leva
Bulgaria’s Finance Ministry said on October 31 that the consolidated Budget surplus for the first nine months of 2019 was
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Bulgarian Traffic Police to carry out annual ‘Operation Winter’ in November
Motorists should prepare their vehicles for the winter to ensure their safety and the safety of other road users, a
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