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Russian Foreign Ministry spokesperson Maria Zakharova described Bulgaria’s expulsion of two staff from the Russian embassy in Sofia as without grounds and called on Bulgaria to “stop participating in a […]
Bulgaria’s Foreign Ministry has notified the Russian embassy in Sofia that it has declared two Russian diplomats persona non grata and given the ...
The Military Court in Sofia has remanded five out of the six accused of espionage for Russia in custody pending trial. This emerged after a marathon s ...
Bulgarian prosecutors and the State Agency for National Security have taken into custody members of a group, led by a former senior Military Intellige ...
European Union foreign ministers have agreed to work on further restrictive measures against figures in Russia responsible for the arrest, sentencing and persecution of Alexei Navalny, it emerged from a […]
Bulgarian Prime Minister Boiko Borissov repeated on January 24 a call to President Roumen Radev to state his position on jailed Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny. Borissov’s second call to […]
Bulgaria’s ambassador in Moscow, Atanas Krastin, was summoned to the Russian Foreign Ministry on December 28 to be handed a note concerning the declaration of Bulgaria’s deputy military attache in […]
Bulgaria has given a Russian diplomat 72 hours to leave the country after it was established that he had sought state secrets about the military, including the number of US […]
Bulgaria’s ambassador in Moscow, Atanas Krastin, was summoned to the Russian Foreign Ministry on October 12 to be handed a note concerning the declaration of two employees of the Bulgarian […]
Commenting on September 24 on Bulgaria’s latest expulsion of Russian diplomats identified by the State Agency for National Security and prosecutors as spies, Prime Minister Boiko Borissov said that he […]
