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Bulgaria: Movement for Rights and Freedoms expels 17 MPs from parliamentary group, then another one quits

July 11, 2024July 11, 2024 The Sofia Globe staff Bulgaria elections 2024

The Movement for Rights and Freedoms (MRF) has expelled 17 MPs from its parliamentary group, a move that was followed

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Bulgaria: War in the Movement for Rights and Freedoms – Peevski scorns Dogan’s call to resign

July 11, 2024July 11, 2024 The Sofia Globe staff

The civil war in Bulgarian political party the Movement for Rights and Freedoms blazed into naked conflict on the night

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War in the Movement for Rights and Freedoms: Dogan calls for Peevski to resign as leader

July 10, 2024July 10, 2024 The Sofia Globe staff

Amid the turbulent power struggle in the Movement for Rights and Freedoms, MRF founder and honorary president Ahmed Dogan issued

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Bulgaria’s heatwave: Free mineral water in Varna, Sofia, warnings on some dam levels

July 10, 2024July 10, 2024 The Sofia Globe staff

With temperatures in Bulgaria continuing to soar in what is forecast to be a record hot July, Varna municipality has

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Bulgaria offers recovery treatment for children who survived Russian missile attack on hospital

July 10, 2024July 10, 2024 The Sofia Globe staff Russia, Ukraine

Bulgaria’s caretaker Minister of Labour and Social Policy, Ivaylo Ivanov, has proposed that children who survived the rocket attack on

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Turmoil in Bulgaria’s Movement for Rights and Freedoms continues

July 9, 2024July 9, 2024 The Sofia Globe staff

The turmoil in Bulgaria’s Movement for Rights and Freedoms (MRF) entered its latest day on July 9, as a group

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Bulgaria Constitutional Court rules its two newest judges will serve out rest of term

July 9, 2024July 9, 2024 The Sofia Globe staff

Bulgaria’s Constitutional Court said on July 9 that it has ruled that its two newest judges, appointed by Parliament in

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Swiss ambassador to Bulgaria upbeat on Allegra Festival

July 9, 2024July 23, 2024 The Sofia Globe staff

A lover of classical music, Switzerland’s ambassador to Bulgaria Raymund Furrer speaks with smiling enthusiasm about this year’s 10th Allegra

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Archaeology: Glass vessels found in Bulgaria’s Chengene Skele Bay

July 9, 2024July 9, 2024 The Sofia Globe staff archaeology, Bourgas

A total of 112 whole and fragmented glass vessels, likely dating back centuries, were found in June 2024 during underwater

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