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Bulgarian Defence Ministry official publicly apologises for Hitler salute photograph

May 21, 2017May 23, 2017 Clive Leviev-Sawyer Boiko Borissov, Bulgarian Jews, Bulgarian Orthodox Church, Roumen Radev, Valeri Simeonov, Volen Siderov

Ivo Antonov, the Bulgarian Defence Ministry official whose appearance in a photograph showing him giving a Nazi salute compounded the

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Bulgarian Customs finds record 423kg of heroin in lorry headed for the Netherlands

May 21, 2017May 21, 2017 Independent Balkan News Agency

Customs officers from the north-western Bulgarian town of Lom found 423kg of heroin at the Vidin-Calafat border checkpoint in a

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Number of refugees in Bulgaria has dropped significantly – report

May 21, 2017 Independent Balkan News Agency Europe migrant crisis

In the past six months, the number of refugees and migrants in Bulgaria has decreased significantly, according to Interior Ministry

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Bulgarian prosecutors: Assenovgrad chief architect, businessman arrested in corruption probe

May 20, 2017May 20, 2017 The Sofia Globe staff

The Plovdiv Regional Prosecutor’s Office has ordered that Assenovgrad chief architect Kostadin Atanassov and businessman Mitkov Zahariev be held in

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Bulgaria 

Bulgarian President criticises government, calls for condemnation of Nazism over ‘Hitler salutes’ scandals

May 20, 2017May 21, 2017 Clive Leviev-Sawyer Boiko Borissov, Bulgarian Jews, Krassimir Karakachanov, Roumen Radev, Valeri Simeonov

Bulgarian President Roumen Radev has become the latest to react to the controversy of the past few days about photographs

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Bulgarian Defence Ministry official pictured with Hitler salute keeps job – for now

May 19, 2017May 19, 2017 Clive Leviev-Sawyer Boiko Borissov, Krassimir Karakachanov, Valeri Simeonov

Bulgarian Defence Minister and nationalist United Patriots co-leader Krassimir Karakachanov said on May 19 that no decision had been taken

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Nationalists in Bulgarian government mean rocky first fortnight for third Borissov cabinet

May 19, 2017May 21, 2017 Independent Balkan News Agency Boiko Borissov, Bulgarian Jews, Valeri Simeonov, Volen Siderov

Bulgaria’s National Assembly is hardly ever a place free of acrimonious exchanges, but May 2017 is seeing ever more bitter

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Bulgaria 

Bulgaria arrests 23 in operation against hackers involved in international customs evasion group

May 19, 2017May 19, 2017 The Sofia Globe staff

Bulgaria’s chief directorate against organised crime said on May 19 that 23 people had been arrested so far in an

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Bulgaria 

English is most-studied foreign language at European schools, French second – EU report

May 19, 2017January 9, 2019 The Sofia Globe staff

In almost all European countries, English is the foreign language learnt by most pupils during primary and secondary education, according

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