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The Council of the EU decided on June 21 to renew sanctions introduced in response to the illegal annexation of Crimea and Sevastopol by Russia for a further year until […]
Bulgaria’s ambassador in Moscow, Atanas Krastin, was summoned to the Russian Foreign Ministry on May 26 to be handed a note concerning the declarati ...
Bulgaria’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs said on April 29 that another Russian diplomat was being expelled from the country, and said that it was ...
Bulgaria’s ambassador in Moscow, Atanas Krastin, was summoned to the Russian Foreign Ministry on April 20 to be handed a note concerning the declara ...
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 them 72 hours to leave the country, Foreign […]
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 sitting, held behind closed […]
Bulgarian prosecutors and the State Agency for National Security have taken into custody members of a group, led by a former senior Military Intelligence officer, who built an intelligence network […]
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 […]
