Large turnout in Plovdiv for protest against Muslim court claims on property
More than 1000 people from all over Bulgaria, most of them from football clubs, took part in a February 7
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Turkish foreign minister postponed Bulgaria visit ‘because of Sochi’
Turkish foreign minister Ahmet Davutoğlu postponed a scheduled visit to Bulgaria’s capital city Sofia on February 6 and 7 so
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Bulgaria’s anti-government ‘Early Rising Students’ to protest against MPs’ salary hike
The anti-government “Early Rising Students” group is to hold a protest on February 6 against an increase in the salaries
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Petition to be launched to support Plevneliev’s electoral law referendum proposal
A committee including academics, actors and university students has been set up to organise a petition in support of Bulgarian
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Sofia city council approves 2014 budget
Sofia city council voted on February 6 to approve the 2014 municipal budget for the Bulgarian capital city, with only
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Bulgarian prosecutors probe refugee tent camp funding
Prosecutors in Bulgaria have started pre-trial proceedings in connection with the spending of money that had been intended for the
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Rat population in Sofia on the rise
Some years ago, a mayoral election candidate in Sofia pledged that if elected, he would rid the city of its
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Problems continue at Bulgarian-Turkish border because of lorry transit licence dispute
The dispute between Bulgaria and Turkey over the issuing of transit licences for trucks is continuing, and the Foreign Ministry
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How the Bulgarian media covered (or did not) new report on the Bulgarian media
Coverage by the Bulgarian-language media of an annual report on the state of the Bulgarian media said a lot about,
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