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Bulgaria’s National Co-ordinator against Antisemitism, Deputy Foreign Minister Georg Georgiev, was among government officials to take part in the March of the Living from Auschwitz to Birkenau on May 2 […]
Eleven Bulgarian NGOs have approached the country’s statutory broadcast regulator the Council for Electronic Media over a television interview in which a Bulgarian National Union leader used intolerant language directed […]
Addressing the second consecutive Passover Seder dinner that she has hosted, Bulgaria’s Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Ekaterina Zaharieva sent a strong message that Bulgaria’s government and society had […]
Ultra-nationalist extra-parliamentary party the Bulgarian National Union is to host a gathering of far-right groupings from all over Europe in Sofia on April 20 and 21 to discuss common initiatives […]
Swastikas and offensive language have been found daubed on a monument in the Bulgarian town of Stara Zagora, the day after April 11, the international day of the liberation of […]
Twelve kindergartens and five schools in Bulgaria’s capital city Sofia are included in the campaign for free eye examinations “Smiley Eyes” which started on April 2 and will continue until […]
Bulgarian Deputy Foreign Minister Georg Georgiev, who is the National Co-ordinator for Combating Antisemitism, has held talks in Washington DC with Tom Yazdgerdi, Special Envoy for Holocaust Issues in the […]
Bulgaria has conferred on Ronald S Lauder, President of the World Jewish Congress, its highest state honour, the Stara Planina first degree. The award celebrates Lauder’s extraordinary dedication to the […]
Hundreds of Bulgarians, including political leaders and ordinary people including representatives of the Bulgarian Jewish community, as well as foreign diplomats, turned out on March 10 for a procession entitled […]
Sofia municipality and the Organization of the Jews in Bulgaria “Shalom” are holding a procession entitled “Together for Bulgaria. Together for Europe” on March 10, the day commemorated as the […]
