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Bulgaria, the Netherlands partner in field of document fraud identification

February 10, 2025February 10, 2025 The Sofia Globe staff

Dutch experts from the Royal Netherlands Marechaussee are in Sofia for a series of capacity-building training sessions with their Bulgarian

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Serbians in Bulgaria’s capital protest outside embassy in solidarity with students

February 9, 2025February 9, 2025 The Sofia Globe staff Serbia

Members of the Serbian community in Bulgaria held a protest outside the Serbian embassy in capital city Sofia on February

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Bulgarian Orthodox Church’s Holy Synod unanimously elects Pahomiy as new Metropolitan of Vidin

February 9, 2025February 9, 2025 The Sofia Globe staff Bulgarian Orthodox Church

The governing body of the Bulgarian Orthodox Church, the Holy Synod, unanimously elected on February 9 Branitsa Bishop Pahomiy as

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Poll: GERB-UDF 24%, We Continue the Change – Democratic Bulgaria 13.5%

February 6, 2025February 6, 2025 The Sofia Globe staff

Were Bulgaria to hold parliamentary elections now, Boiko Borissov’s centre-right GERB-UDF coalition would get 24 per cent and the reformist

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Defence Minister: Compensation Bulgaria gets for military aid to Ukraine could exceed 600M leva

February 5, 2025February 5, 2025 The Sofia Globe staff

The amount that Bulgaria receives in compensation for the military aid it supplies to Ukraine could exceed 600 million leva,

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Bulgaria’s Parliament again rejects pro-Kremlin party’s ‘foreign agents’ bill

February 5, 2025February 5, 2025 The Sofia Globe staff

Bulgaria’s Parliament voted overwhelmingly on February 5 to reject a bill on “foreign agents” tabled by pro-Kremlin minority party Vuzrazhdane,

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Bulgarian Navy chief: 18 mines destroyed in Black Sea since start of Russia’s war on Ukraine

February 4, 2025February 4, 2025 The Sofia Globe staff

Eighteen mines have been detected and defused in the Black Sea since the beginning of the war in Ukraine, Bulgarian

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Joint deployment of officers from four countries at Bulgarian-Turkish border begins

February 3, 2025February 3, 2025 The Sofia Globe staff Schengen

The joint deployment of an additional 100 border police officers from four countries – Bulgaria, Romania, Hungary and Austria –

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Bulgaria granted citizenship to more than 16 000 people in 2024

February 3, 2025February 3, 2025 The Sofia Globe staff

Bulgaria granted citizenship to 16 268 people in 2024, the largest number in a year since the beginning of the

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