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Bulgarian Prime Minister Boiko Borissov won a form of grudging praise from the opposition after the government decided against expelling Russian diplomats over the Skripal nerve agent poisoning case. On […]
Bulgaria will not expel Russian diplomats from the country, Prime Minister Boiko Borissov said on March 30 after a special meeting of the Cabinet security council which held a hearing […]
Bulgarian Prime Minister Boiko Borissov has called a special meeting of the Cabinet security council for March 30, to conduct a hearing of Boiko Kotzev, the country’s ambassador recalled from […]
Bulgaria’s government said on March 27 that it has recalled its ambassador to Russia Boiko Kotsev for consultations, the Cabinet said. The announcement comes just days after Prime Minister Boiko […]
Several European Union countries joined the US on March 26 in expelling dozens of Russian diplomats in a coordinated retaliation for the March 4 nerve-agent poisoning in Britain of a […]
Bulgarian Prime Minister Boiko Borissov says that while there is “high probability” that Russia was behind the March 4 nerve agent attack in the UK on former double agent Sergei […]
Bulgaria’s Defence Ministry has said that it has signed a framework agreement worth 81 million leva (about 41.4 million euro) with Russian Aircraft Corporation MiG (RSK MiG) for the supply […]
Bulgaria’s ruling majority and the opposition are caught up in their latest political row after Bulgarian Socialist Party MP Tasko Ermenkov posted on Facebook that Crimea had voted for Vladimir […]
Archimandrite Vassian Zmeev, the new representative in Bulgaria of Russian Patriarch Kirill, has arrived in Sofia and held talks with Bulgarian Orthodox Church Patriarch Neofit, specialist church news website Dveri […]
Bulgarian President Roumen Radev congratulated Vladimir Putin on his re-election as president of Russia, Radev’s office said on March 19. Putin, who has been in power either as president or […]
