British Airways flights between London and Sofia cancelled on second day of pilots strike
British Airways flights between London Heathrow and Sofia Airport were cancelled on September 10, the second day of a two-day
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Bulgarian President’s office speaks on explicit photos of girlfriend of Sofia mayoral candidate
More than four days after outrage erupted over the posting on a Bulgarian “media” website of explicit photos of sex
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Bulgaria’s Kristalina Georgieva is sole candidate to head IMF
Bulgaria’s Kristalina Georgieva is the sole candidate to be the next managing director of the International Monetary Fund, the IMF
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Bulgarian Jewish organisation rejects Russian historian’s claim Tsar and government prevented Holocaust in Bulgaria
Bulgarian Jewish organisation “Shalom” has sharply rejected a claim by Russian historian Konstantin Mogilevskiy that there was no Holocaust in
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‘Homosoc’ exhibition to show findings about LGBTI life in communist Bulgaria
An exhibition entitled “Homosoc” is to show the realities of life for LGBTI people in Bulgaria during the country’s communist
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75 years on, Bulgaria deeply divided over Soviet army invasion
Some laid flowers in honour of the Soviet soldiers and others laid flowers in memory of the victims of communism.
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Bulgarian Prosecutor-General requests withdrawal of citizenship of two foreign-born nationals
Prosecutor-General Sotir Tsatsarov has requested that the Minister of Justice asks the President to revoke the citizenship of two foreign-born
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British Airways flights to and from Sofia Airport cancelled due to pilots strike
British Airways flights to and from Sofia Airport were cancelled on September 9 as BALPA union pilots began a two-day
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Archaeology: 6th century BCE bronze statuette found on Bulgaria’s Cyricus island
Archaeologists have found a bronze statuette of a ram’s head, said to date from the sixth century BCE, on St
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