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Close to 18 000 students at universities in Bulgaria are foreigners

April 26, 2023April 26, 2023 The Sofia Globe staff

A total of 17 593 students at universities in Bulgaria in the 2022/23 academic year studying for bachelor’s or master’s

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Bulgaria probes claim bank is laundering money for Russian oligarchs

April 25, 2023April 25, 2023 The Sofia Globe staff Russia

The Sofia City Prosecutor’s Office said on April 25 that it had instructed the State Agency for National Security (SANS)

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Borissov wants to see who would be in a WCC-Democratic Bulgaria government

April 25, 2023April 25, 2023 The Sofia Globe staff Boiko Borissov, Bulgaria elections 2023

Boiko Borissov’s GERB-UDF and the We Continue the Change-Democratic Bulgaria coalition held a 40-minute leaders meeting on April 25, with

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GERB-UDF invites We Continue the Change-Democratic Bulgaria to leaders meeting

April 24, 2023April 24, 2023 The Sofia Globe staff Bulgaria elections 2023

Boiko Borissov’s GERB-UDF says that it has invited We Continue the Change-Democratic Bulgaria to a leaders meeting in the Parliament

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Bulgarian Foreign Ministry: Russian ambassador’s comments on domestic politics inappropriate

April 24, 2023April 24, 2023 The Sofia Globe staff Russia

Bulgaria’s Foreign Ministry has criticised comments by Russian ambassador Eleonora Mitrofanova on domestic politics as inappropriate. In an interview posted

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Covid-19 in Bulgaria: In past week, 19 deaths, 1146 new cases

April 24, 2023April 24, 2023 The Sofia Globe staff new coronavirus

The deaths of 19 people in Bulgaria who had tested positive for Covid-19 were registered in the past week, bringing

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Bulgaria 

Foreign Ministry: ‘Necessary measures’ taken to evacuate Bulgarian citizens from Sudan

April 23, 2023April 23, 2023 The Sofia Globe staff

Bulgaria’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs has taken the necessary measures and is doing everything possible, in coordination with its partners

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Bulgaria 

Bulgaria’s caretaker Agriculture Minister: Ukrainian import ban will not cause bread, sunflower price rises

April 22, 2023April 22, 2023 The Sofia Globe staff Russia, Ukraine

Bulgaria’s caretaker Agriculture Minister Yavor Gechev says that he does not believe that the country’s temporary ban on several foodstuffs

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Bulgarian President concludes consultations ahead of handing mandate to form government

April 21, 2023April 21, 2023 The Sofia Globe staff Bulgaria elections 2023, Roumen Radev

Bulgarian President Roumen Radev concluded his round of consultations with the 49th National Assembly’s parliamentary groups on April 21, as

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