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An outdoor ice rink billed as to be the largest in the Balkans – and certainly in Bulgaria – is to open in the city of Plovdiv in late November, […]
Visits by foreign tourists to Plovdiv, the Bulgarian city holding the European Capital of Culture 2019, were 6.5 per cent higher in January to August ...
Bulgarian Prime Minister Boiko Borissov’s Cabinet, at a scheduled meeting on November 6, appointed new regional governors in Plovdiv and Haskovo ...
The ninth annual “Di Vino.Taste” Bulgaria wine forum is being held at the Inter Expo Centre in Bulgaria’s capital Sofia from Novembe ...
To channel Highlander, Sunday is coming – and there can only be one. In Sofia and 18 other cities that are capitals of districts, run-off elections are being held to […]
The Bulgarian Socialist Party and the Democratic Bulgaria coalition in Plovdiv have declined to endorse either candidate in the city’s November 3 mayoral election second round, a contest between GERB’s […]
With English as its working language, a symposium is to be held in Plovdiv – Bulgaria’s second city and current holder of the European Capital of Culture title – on […]
Spare a thought for Mladen Mladenov, Iliya Zyumbilev and Milena Dimitrova. Few else may. In the October 27 mayoral elections in Sofia, Plovdiv and Varna, respectively, these three got the […]
At a ceremony on October 28, a bas-relief honouring Dimitar Peshev, who played a key role 76 years ago in the rescue of the Bulgarian Jews from the death camps […]
Mayoral elections in Plovdiv will go to a second round on November 3, with a contest between GERB candidate Zdravko Dimitrov and ultra-nationalist VMRO-NFSB’s Slavcho Atanassov. This is according to […]
