Bulgaria is a step closer to full membership of the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance
The International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA) has decided to accept Bulgaria as a liaison country, the first state to take
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Bulgarian Jews
Shalom Organisation of the Jews in Bulgaria condemns attack on Muslim leader’s family in Sofia
Bulgarian Jewish organisations, in a statement on June 28, condemned the previous day’s assault on the wife and two daughters
Read moreBulgarian Jewish community confers awards on former president Plevneliev and late Metropolitan Neofit
At a moving ceremony at the Sofia Central Synagogue on June 8, the Shalom Organization of the Jews in Bulgaria
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Bulgaria’s Shalom Jewish organisation welcomes European Parliament resolution against anti-Semitism, calls for government action
The Shalom Organization of the Jews in Bulgaria said on June 7 that it welcomed the approval by a huge
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Bulgarian PM meets initiators of Nobel Prize nomination for Bulgarian Orthodox Church for role in preventing deportation of Jews to Holocaust
Bulgarian Prime Minister Boiko Borissov has held talks with three of the initiators of the campaign for the Nobel Peace
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European Jewish Congress: Tenev’s Nazi salute should serve as a caution against working with ultra-nationalist parties
The episode in which a now-former Bulgarian deputy minister was pictured giving a Nazi salute should serve as a caution
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Bulgarian Defence Ministry official publicly apologises for Hitler salute photograph
Ivo Antonov, the Bulgarian Defence Ministry official whose appearance in a photograph showing him giving a Nazi salute compounded the
Read moreBulgarian President criticises government, calls for condemnation of Nazism over ‘Hitler salutes’ scandals
Bulgarian President Roumen Radev has become the latest to react to the controversy of the past few days about photographs
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Nationalists in Bulgarian government mean rocky first fortnight for third Borissov cabinet
Bulgaria’s National Assembly is hardly ever a place free of acrimonious exchanges, but May 2017 is seeing ever more bitter
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