Prosecutors lodge two charges against mayor of Bulgarian town of Assenovgrad
The Plovdiv District Prosecutor’s Office has lodged two charges, of misappropriating large sums of money and of signing false documents,
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Two Bulgarian Border Police among six arrested in bust of people-trafficking operation at Sofia Airport
Six people, including two Border Police, have been detained in an operation against an organised crime group that was trafficking
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Bulgarian PM meets initiators of Nobel Prize nomination for Bulgarian Orthodox Church for role in preventing deportation of Jews to Holocaust
Bulgarian Prime Minister Boiko Borissov has held talks with three of the initiators of the campaign for the Nobel Peace
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Bulgaria watchdog ends Lukoil anti-trust probe, finds no wrongdoing
Bulgaria’s Commission for Protection of Competition (CPC) has ended its investigation of two subsidiaries of Russian privately-held oil major Lukoil,
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War of words over Cyrillic script continues as Putin unites Bulgaria – against him
Bulgarian politicians across the political spectrum seldom agree about anything – but Russian president Vladimir Putin has inspired a rare
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Flying in circles: Bulgarian PM hints at further years of delay in acquiring new jet fighters
Bulgaria’s long-delayed process of acquiring new fighter jets for the Air Force looked set to stall again as Prime Minister
Read moreMayor of Bulgaria’s Assenovgrad municipality taken into custody a week after chief architect arrested
In an operation by the Bulgarian Special Prosecutor’s Office and the State Agency for National Security, the mayor of Assenovgrad
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Plovdiv District Court sentences man to four years in jail for Tobacco Town warehouses fire
Plovdiv District Court sentenced Lyubomir Danchev (44) to four years in jail on May 25 2017, finding him guilty of
Read moreBulgaria’s environment minister orders check of air quality in village of Trud, long scene of protests over stench from biomass plant
Bulgaria’s Minister of Environment and Water, Neno Dimov, has ordered an inspection of the quality of the ambient air in
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