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This past Sunday afternoon found me on a beach on the southern Bulgarian Black Sea coast, seeking swift respite from the labours of our coverage of the Covid-19 crisis – […]
Everyone had a reason to be there, this balmy July evening of protest in Bulgaria’s capital city Sofia. To a degree, three disparate protests merged, to an extent, into one. […]
As of July 10, a number of restrictive measures against the spread of coronavirus in Bulgaria return – closing of indoor night bars, discos and nightclubs, a restriction on group […]
On June 26, The Independent published an op-ed written by Professor Menachem Rosensaft, general counsel of the World Jewish Congress, which outlines the current situation considering memory politics on the […]
It was a stunt, but it was a good one. Hristo Ivanov had a Bulgarian flag in his hand; he lacked only a copy of the Bulgarian constitution in the […]
Eighteen years ago, I wrote an editorial saying that there was a need for a coherent agreed European Union policy on migration. That policy, I argued, should be based on […]
Among the beneficiaries of state aid for small businesses in Bulgaria hit by the Covid-19 crisis were funeral parlours in the Black Sea city of Varna. To be eligible for […]
For The Sofia Globe, there was a life before Covid-19; now the daunting challenge is to ensure that there is a life beyond it. One response is the Globe’s Patreon […]
As the general public leans towards the mentality that the world is now “almost” normal again, politicians and medical experts have a totally different opinion on the state of play. […]
“I would like to be positive despite the unusually difficult situation,” Bulgaria’s Tourism Minister Nikolina Angelkova has told a news conference, according to a media statement by her ministry. Her […]
