Bulgaria Now podcast: The long arm of the law, a fistful of euro, and fingerprints too
This week, two years to the day that Bulgarian law enforcement swooped on customs officers at the Lesovo border checkpoint
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Bulgaria elections 2016: Tsacheva 26.3%, Radev 22.5% – Alpha Research poll
Results of an Alpha Research poll released on November 3, three days before Bulgaria’s 2016 presidential elections, show a tight
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Bulgaria’s 2016 elections: The factfile
Bulgaria holds presidential elections and a national referendum on November 6 2016, and may hold a second-round presidential election on
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Bulgaria’s 2016 elections: Daily roundup, November 3
Torchlight political processions do not have the most fortunate associations given the history of Europe in the 20th century, but
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Sofia police arrrest five for assaulting refugees
Police in Bulgaria’s capital Sofia have arrested five men who assaulted refugees in the Stochna Gara area of the city,
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Bulgaria’s fingerprint admission system for hospitals crashes on third day
The controversial system of admitting patients to hospitals using a fingerprint-based system crashed on November 3, the third day after
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Bulgaria’s 2016 elections: Daily roundup, November 2
November 2 left Bulgaria’s 21 presidential candidates with just three days, counting Wednesday itself, to persuade the electorate to support
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Bulgarian government approves further 15.3M leva for MiG-29 airworthiness upgrade
Bulgaria’s Cabinet said on November 2 that it had approved spending a further 15.39 million leva (about 7.86 million euro)
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40 Bulgarian customs officers at Lesovo checkpoint held in anti-corruption bust
Bulgarian State Agency for National Security and Interior Ministry teams arrested 40 customs officers at the Lesovo border checkpoint with
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