Bulgaria’s Prosecutor-General defends probe into Protest Network activists
Bulgaria’s Prosecutor-General Sotir Tsatsarov has sought to defend the investigation, including a tax probe, into four activists from the Protest
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Media
Bulgaria drops again in World Press Freedom index, lowest among EU countries
Bulgaria has dropped yet again in Reporters Without Borders’ annual world press freedom index, falling six places to 106th place
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Bulgarian media express solidarity with Charlie Hebdo
A demonstration by staff of Bulgarian National Television outside the public broadcaster’s Sofia head office on January 8 2015 was
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Bulgarian culture ministry officials, public broadcasters’ chiefs boycott Binev committee
Officials from Bulgaria’s Ministry of Culture said on December 4 that they would not attend a meeting of the parliamentary
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Turkish ambassador: Scrapping TV news in Turkish would put Bulgaria on wrong side of history
Should Bulgaria discontinue daily news bulletins in Turkish on the public broadcaster, the country would be on the wrong side
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Bulgarian man tests negative for Ebola, Bulgarian media tests positive for hysteria
The shrill panic-inducing performance of some US cable television media in covering, or rather creating, the Ebola scare appears to
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Back in power, Bulgaria’s GERB party revives idea of print media law
Bulgaria’s print media should be self-regulating in accordance with a new media law, a senior MP for the country’s largest
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Survey of Bulgarian journalists says media under political pressure – report
More than half of the journalists in an anonymous survey carried out by Konrad Adenauer and Reporter foundations, the findings
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Bulgaria again lowest-ranked EU country in RSF’s World Press Freedom Index
Bulgaria has for the second consecutive year been placed 100th in Reporters Without Borders’ World Press Freedom index, again also
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