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Archaeologists investigate graves found at Plovdiv’s Concrete Bridge reconstruction site

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

An archaeological investigation has begun after what local media have described as three ancient graves were found after the demolition

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House sales in Bulgaria dropped 3.8% in 2023 y/y – Eurostat

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

The number of house sales in Bulgaria in 2023 was 3.8 per cent lower than in 2022, European Union statistics

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Exhibition ‘Landscapes, Alphabet’ by Bulgaria’s Pachev and Switzerland’s Burger opens on July 11

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

An exhibition entitled “Landscapes, Alphabet”, a creative collaboration between Bulgarian fashion designer and lecturer Nikolay Pachev and Swiss painter Sarah

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Another week of sweltering weather in Bulgaria, forecast highs of 40°C in places

July 8, 2024July 8, 2024 The Sofia Globe staff

Bulgaria is set for yet another week of sweltering weather, culminating in average maximum temperatures of 38 degrees Celsius on

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Bulgaria 

WCC-DB co-leader Petkov: There will be no talks with Vuzrazhdane on a government

July 6, 2024July 6, 2024 The Sofia Globe staff Bulgaria elections 2024

We Continue the Change-Democratic Bulgaria co-leader Kiril Petkov hastened on July 6 to say that the coalition would not hold

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Ukrainian embassy urges Bulgarian politicians to not use the war for political purposes

July 6, 2024July 6, 2024 The Sofia Globe staff Dimitar Glavchev, Roumen Radev, Russia, Ukraine

Ukraine’s embassy in Sofia issued a call on July 6 to all officials and all political forces in Bulgaria to

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Caretaker PM: It is not true that Bulgaria will become an ‘indefinite donor’ to Ukraine

July 5, 2024July 5, 2024 The Sofia Globe staff Dimitar Glavchev, Roumen Radev, Russia, Ukraine

There is no way that Bulgaria will become an open-ended donor to Ukraine, at least because funds must be provided

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Bulgaria 

Bulgarian Parliament’s smallest group disintegrates amid acrimony

July 5, 2024July 5, 2024 The Sofia Globe staff

The parliamentary group of eccentric nationalist-populist party Velichie, which in June won seats in Bulgaria’s National Assembly for the first

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Archaeology: Field studies to begin on Roman-era Erite site on Bulgaria’s coast

July 5, 2024July 5, 2024 The Sofia Globe staff archaeology

Bulgaria’s caretaker cabinet this week granted the National History Museum free use for three years of a site close to

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