Bulgaria’s Kozloduy nuclear plant director sacked
State-owned Bulgarian Energy Holding (BEH) has fired Ivan Genov as executive director of the nuclear power plant at Kozloduy, reports
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Bulgarian elections 2014: Court cuts number of polling stations in Turkey
Bulgaria’s Supreme Administrative Court has ordered the reduction of the number of polling stations in Turkey for the October 8
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Screening of ‘The Lives of Others’ to launch 25 Years Free Bulgaria initiative
A screening of German director Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck’s 2006 film The Lives of Others, winner of that year’s Oscar
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‘New evidence’ that Bulgaria forced Syrian asylum-seekers back to Turkey, Human Rights Watch says
Bulgarian border police have in the past month forced Syrian asylum seekers back to Turkey and beaten some of them,
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Bulgarian court denies appeal to overturn arrest warrant on CCB majority shareholder Vassilev
Sofia Court of Appeals ruled on September 18 to reject the appeal brought by lawyers acting on behalf of Tsvetan
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Bulgaria approves co-operation programmes with neighboring countries
Bulgaria’s cabinet has approved a series of cross-border co-operation programmes with Romania, Greece, Turkey, Serbia and Macedonia. The programmes are
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Bulgaria’s October elections: 98 candidate MPs named as communist-era spies
Ninety-eight candidate MPs in Bulgaria’s October 5 2014 parliamentary elections have been named as former State Security people, with the
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Bulgaria fears new gas deliveries interruption – Deputy PM
Bulgaria was preparing contingency plans in case of a new interruption in gas supplies from Russia, which was seen as
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Bulgaria’s refugee agency to charge mayor with racism over protest against refugee children in school
Lawyers at Bulgaria’s State Agency for Refugees are preparing to approach the prosecution and the Commission for the Protection against
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