Bulgarian Orthodox Church’s Vratsa Metropolitan Kalinik dies
The Bulgarian Orthodox Church Metropolitan of Vratsa, Kalinik, died on December 26 at the age of 85. Kalinik, who headed
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Dossier Commission
Bulgaria’s Dossier Commission announces more names of former State Security agents in media
Bulgaria’s Dossier Commission, the body charged by law with disclosing the identities of people in various walks of public life
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Bulgarian Orthodox Church dismisses Stara Zagora Metropolitan Galaktion
The Bulgarian Orthodox Church’s governing body, the Holy Synod, said on September 28 that it had unanimously decided to dismiss
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Bulgaria’s Parliament again rejects proposal to close body checking communist-era agents
In what has become practically an annual ritual, Bulgaria’s National Assembly on September 2 again rejected proposals from socialist and
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Bulgaria: Many thousands of communist-era Military Intelligence staff records destroyed
At least 16 000 records of Bulgaria’s communist-era Military Intelligence personnel, the equivalent of nearly half, were destroyed after the
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Bulgarian President Plevneliev pledges to ‘send communism to the museum’
“A quarter of a century after the collapse of the Berlin Wall, we have to admit that in our country
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Bulgarian President: People linked to communist party and secret services still try to dominate society
A quarter of a century after the fall of the Berlin Wall, the same old people associated with the Communist
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Bulgaria’s Parliament presented with rival proposals on dealing with the communist past
MPs from Bulgaria’s centre-right Reformist Bloc coalition and largest party GERB have tabled in Parliament proposals to outlaw communist-era symbols,
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Bulgaria’s October 2015 elections: 267 candidate mayors worked for State Security
A total of 267 candidate mayors in Bulgaria’s October 25 2015 mayoral and municipal elections had worked for the country’s
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