Bulgarian court holds first hearing in new ‘radical Islam’ lawsuit
The district court in Pazardjik held the first hearing of a case in which 14 people are accused of promoting
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Bulgarian Parliament votes to enable military to assist in border security
Bulgaria’s National Assembly voted on February 25 to enable the deployment of the country’s military to assist in securing its
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Price tag of lengthening Bulgarian – Turkish border fence ‘rises to 100M leva’
Bulgaria’s government has voted an additional 35 million leva for extending the fence along the Turkish border, bringing spending on
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Bulgarian President Plevneliev pledges to ‘send communism to the museum’
“A quarter of a century after the collapse of the Berlin Wall, we have to admit that in our country
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Foreign Minister says Bulgaria will not allow Greek farmers to ruin bilateral relations
Bulgaria has built up its relations with Greece over 25 years and will not allow 100 to 200 Greek farmers
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Bulgaria arrests nine Veliko Turnovo tax officials for bribery
In an operation led by the Special Public Prosecutor’s Office, nine National Revenue Agency officials in the Bulgarian city of
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Yordan Sokolov, former Speaker of Bulgarian Parliament and interior minister, dies at 83
Yordan Sokolov, Speaker of Bulgaria’s National Assembly from 1997 and 2001 and who had been interior minister in the Philip
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Extradition hearing of Bulgarian banker Vassilev in Serbia postponed
A Belgrade court postponed to March 16 the hearing of an extradition request, lodged by Bulgaria against Tsvetan Vassilev, former
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Bulgaria plans register of young people eligible for military service
Bulgaria, which abolished conscription as of January 2008, is planning legislative amendments that will enable the compilation of a register
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