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GERB MPs walk out of Radev’s speech at second inauguration

January 19, 2022January 19, 2022 The Sofia Globe staff Roumen Radev

MPs for Boiko Borissov’s opposition GERB party walked out of the National Assembly chamber on January 19 as President Roumen

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Bulgaria 

Covid-19: Most of Bulgaria’s leadership self-isolating after Radev’s meeting

January 11, 2022January 13, 2022 The Sofia Globe staff new coronavirus, Roumen Radev

Much of Bulgaria’s political leadership is in self-isolation, pending decisions on quarantine, after it emerged that the Speaker of the

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Bulgaria 

Bulgaria’s President gets booster jab against Covid-19

January 6, 2022January 6, 2022 The Sofia Globe staff new coronavirus, Roumen Radev

Bulgarian head of state President Roumen Radev received a booster dose of vaccine against Covid-19 at the Military Medical Academy

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Bulgaria 

Bulgaria’s PM nominee Petkov names proposed cabinet line-up

December 11, 2021December 14, 2021 The Sofia Globe staff Kiril Petkov, Roumen Radev

We Continue the Change (WCC) co-leader Kiril Petkov, the party’s prime minister nominee put forth after it won the November

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Bulgaria 

Bulgarian President Radev to hand government mandate on December 11

December 10, 2021December 11, 2021 The Sofia Globe staff Roumen Radev

Bulgarian President Roumen Radev will hand the mandate to form a government to the prime minister-designate of the We Continue

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Bulgaria 

Bulgarian President Radev re-elected with 66.7% of the vote – final results

November 22, 2021November 22, 2021 The Sofia Globe staff Bulgaria elections 2021, Roumen Radev

Bulgarian President Roumen Radev won a second term of office with 66.7 per cent of votes cast in the November

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Bulgaria 

US deeply concerned by Bulgarian President calling Crimea ‘Russian’

November 22, 2021November 24, 2021 The Sofia Globe staff Bulgaria elections 2021, Roumen Radev, Russia, Ukraine

The United States is deeply concerned by the recent statements by Bulgarian President Roumen Radev in which he referred to

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Bulgaria 

Bulgaria’s 2021 presidential elections: Radev wins second term with 63.9% of vote – exit poll

November 21, 2021November 23, 2021 The Sofia Globe staff Bulgaria elections 2021, Roumen Radev

Bulgaria’s incumbent President Roumen Radev has won a second five-year term as head of state, with 63.9 per cent of

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Bulgaria 

Ukraine summons Bulgaria’s ambassador over Radev’s debate statement on Crimea

November 19, 2021November 21, 2021 The Sofia Globe staff Bulgaria elections 2021, Roumen Radev, Ukraine

Ukraine’s Foreign Ministry summoned the Bulgarian ambassador in Kyiv on November 19 to tell him of the “incorrectness and unacceptability”

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