Bulgarian archaeologists dig out remains of 7800-year-old settlement
The archaeology season is fully underway in Bulgaria, despite the rainy weather that has swept over the country in recent
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Storms forecast: Code Orange hazardous weather warning for Western Bulgaria on May 30
Bulgaria’s weather office has issued a “Code Orange” hazardous weather warning for western and parts of southern Bulgaria for May
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Bulgaria former interior minister handed four-year jail sentence
The Sofia City Court sentenced Tsvetan Tsvetanov, MP for opposition party GERB who served as interior minister in Boiko Borissov’s
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Bulgaria’s ruling axis seeks to close ranks against resignation demands
In spite of the Bulgarian Socialist Party being trounced in European Parliament elections, the parties of the ruling axis –
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Sofia emergency medics resign en masse in row over ambulance delays, underfunding
Emergency services medics in Bulgaria’s capital city Sofia resigned en masse on May 29 in protest against the government’s attempt
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Sofia mayor orders districts to be ready to cope with expected thunderstorm, torrential rain
Sofia mayor Yordanka Fandukova told the city’s district mayors to be ready to deal with the consequences of the torrential
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Calls in Bulgarian Socialist Party for leadership change after European Parliament elections rout
Sergei Stanishev’s leadership of the Bulgarian Socialist Party is being called into question by some BSP MPs after the party’s
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Central Election Commission: Final results of Bulgaria’s May 2014 European Parliament elections
The Central Election Commission (CEC) announced at a May 28 news conference the final results of Bulgaria’s European Parliament elections
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Mestan: ‘very sober’ discussion about early elections needed
The Movement for Rights and Freedoms (MRF) is ready for talks with all political forces to calm the situation in
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