Television cameraman assaulted during anti-government protest in Bulgarian capital – report
A cameraman from Bulgarian television station BTV was assaulted during an anti-government protest in Sofia on September 16, with participants
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Volunteers join ‘Shalom’, Sofia municipality initiative to clean off swastikas, hate slogans in Bulgarian capital
More than 100 volunteers turned out on September 16 to take part in an initiative by the Organization of the
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Siderov, Mareshki table resolution calling on Bulgarian PM to oppose EU sanctions against Hungary
The leader of the far-right Ataka party, Volen Siderov, and of Parliament’s smallest party, Vesselin Mareshki, have tabled a resolution
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Bulgarian Forestry Agency chief resigns over Romanian border fence ‘conflict of interest’
Bulgaria’s Agriculture Ministry made much of the fence put up at the land border with Romania to try to prevent
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Bulgarian Parliament legislates compulsory seatbelts in buses
Close to four weeks after the Svoge bus crash disaster in which 17 people died, Bulgaria’s Parliament voted on September
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Bulgaria prosecutors raid Sofia establishments in money-laundering probe
Special prosecutors raided two Sofia restaurants on September 14 in connection to an investigation into alleged money-laundering and illegal cigarette
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Bulgarian Transport Minister-designate declines nomination, blames ‘attacks’ against him
Bulgarian Deputy Economy Minister Alexander Manolev said on September 13 that he was declining his nomination to be Tranport Minister,
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Update: One sacked after new case of failed security screening at Bulgaria’s Sofia Airport
An employee of the Sofia Airport security department was sacked as a result of the latest case of failure to
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Bulgaria presses terrorism, weapons smuggling charges against Swiss citizen who tried to reach Idlib
Bulgaria’s Special Prosecutor’s office has pressed charges of terrorism and arms smuggling against a Swiss citizen who attempted to cross
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