Bulgaria’s military rehearses for army day flypasts over Sofia
The whirr of helicopter blades over Bulgaria’s capital city Sofia are no cause for alarm – the military has begun
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Dawkins to give ‘encore presentation’ at Sofia Science Festival
Due to popular demand – the tickets for his first presentation were sold out in just one day – Professor
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Bulgarian President urges rethink on church honouring Saxe-Coburg as ‘Tsar of Bulgarians’
Bulgarian head of state President Rossen Plevneliev has called on the Holy Synod of the Bulgarian Orthodox Church to reconsider
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Bulgaria Budget swings to surplus in March
Bulgaria’s Finance Ministry has said that the consolidated Budget recorded a surplus of 257.1 million leva, or 0.3 per cent
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Bulgarian Orthodox Church includes blessing for Saxe-Coburg as ‘Tsar of Bulgarians’ in liturgies
The Bulgarian Orthodox Church’s governing body, the Holy Synod, has decided to include a blessing for Simeon Saxe-Coburg as “His
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Court acquits Bulgaria’s former roads agency chief in conflict of interest trial
Sofia City Court ruled on April 30 find Vesselin Georgiev, a former head of Bulgaria’s road infrastructure agency, not guilty
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Ombudsman: TV7 case ‘perhaps act of personal revenge’
Bulgaria’s national Ombudsman Konstantin Penchev said that he had the feeling that someone wanted to close down TV7, perhaps as
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Traffic congestion warnings ahead of long weekend in Bulgaria
Ongoing road works on the major thoroughfares into Sofia raised the prospect of long traffic jams for thousands of motorists
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Two Sofia top cops resign after raid on TV7
Two senior Sofia police officers, the chief of the sixth district and the deputy head of the Sofia directorate of
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