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Bulgaria’s Supreme Administrative Court has rejected an appeal against the stance of the Central Election Commission (CEC) that Delyan Peevski is eligible to stand in the country’s May 2019 European […]
The Movement for Rights and Freedoms submitted its candidate list for the May 2019 European Parliament elections on April 22, with party leader Mustaf ...
The Central Election Commission has ordered an end to the distribution of a book distributed free with a newspaper, directed against former justice mi ...
A group of Bulgarians who were among those who founded the Protest Network during the 2013/14 large-scale public protests demanding the resignation of ...
Bulgaria’s Prosecutor-General Sotir Tsatsarov has sought to defend the investigation, including a tax probe, into four activists from the Protest Network – while also defending the prosecutor assigned to the […]
At the request of the Sofia City Prosecutor’s office, Bulgaria’s National Revenue Agency has begun a formal investigation into four prominent activists from the Protest Network that arose from the […]
Georgi Bliznashki, who was Bulgaria’s caretaker prime minister in 2014 after the resignation of the “Oresharski” cabinet, said on February 11 2015 that he had no doubt that there had […]
The findings of an investigation ordered after allegations that anti-government protesters were the subject of illegal surveillance in 2013 and 2014 are “far more disturbing” than claims already made in […]
An internal investigation into allegations that Bulgaria’s 2013/14 administration illegally eavesdropped on anti-government protesters would be completed soon, Interior Minister Vesselin Vuchkov said on February 6. In 2014, the Protest [& ...
There was a large-scale operation eavesdropping on anti-government protesters by the Interior Ministry, State Agency for National Security and specialist surveillance department at the time of the now-departed administration, the […]
