Bulgaria’s SJC suspends judges indicted in EU funds embezzlement probe
Bulgaria’s Supreme Judicial Council (SJC) ruled on May 15 to suspend two senior judges indicted in an EU funds embezzlement
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Bulgarian doctors in symbolic protest
Bulgarian doctors across the country took part in a symbolic protest on May 15 2014, wearing ribbons and warning that
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Hacking attack on Bulgarian Orthodox Church website ‘revenge for assault on Plovdiv mosque’
Hackers attacked the official website of the Bulgarian Orthodox Church, leaving a message saying that this was revenge for the
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Bulgarian regulator mulls massive fines on electricity distribution firms
Bulgaria’s State Energy and Water Regulatory Commission (SEWRC) said on May 14 that its audit of three privately-owned electricity distribution
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Bulgarian leaders send condolences to Turkish counterparts over Soma mine disaster
Bulgaria’s President, Speaker of Parliament, prime minister and foreign minister each sent messages of condolences to their Turkish counterparts on
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Bulgaria’s European Parliament elections: Notebook, May 14
A commentator on media coverage of the campaign ahead of Bulgaria’s May 25 2014 European Parliament elections said that the
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Former constitutional judge: Committee investigating President Plevneliev is unconstitutional
A former judge in Bulgaria’s Constitutional Court has become the latest expert to say that the parliamentary committee set up
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Bulgarian Orthodox Church Patriarch Neofit to visit Russia
Patriarch Neofit, head of the Bulgarian Orthodox Church, is to visit Russia from May 23 to 29, the church’s governing
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ADL survey of anti-Semitism: Bulgaria worse than Eastern Europe average
Eastern Europe ranks second among the world’s regions in anti-Semitic attitudes, and Bulgaria is worse than the average, scoring 44
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