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Bulgarian Prime Minister Boiko Borissov and Foreign Minister Ekaterina Zaharieva have expressed condolences to their Ukrainian counterparts after a Ukraine International Airlines Boeing 737-800 crashed soon after taking off from […]
The governing body of the Greek Orthodox Church, its Holy Synod, took a formal decision on October 12 to recognise the Ukrainian Orthodox Church as au ...
The Bulgarian Navy corvette Bodri is taking part in Sea Breeze 2019, the exercise in the Black Sea co-hosted by the United States and Ukraine, Bulgari ...
Exit polls in Ukraine indicate standup comedian Volodymyr Zelenskiy has won a landslide victory in the April 21 2019 runoff presidential election over ...
While its current disposition in Crimea is mainly defensive in nature, Russia’s military build-up on the peninsula could soon turn the Black Sea region into a security black hole. On […]
The Bulgarian Orthodox Church has rejected reports in Ukrainian media that its governing body has decided to support the autocephaly of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church. The Ukrainian reports emerged after […]
The Bulgarian Orthodox Church will address the question of the autocephaly of the “Macedonian Orthodox Church” after the process of the new name of the former Yugoslav republic has been […]
Ecumenical Patriarch Bartolomeos I has signed the “tomos” document officially proclaiming the Orthodox Church of Ukraine as autocephalous. Bartolomeos I signed the document on January 5 in the presence of […]
With two elections next year, Ukraine is facing upheaval on the domestic front. Russia, meanwhile, is shaking up its foreign policy, particularly with the United States, after withdrawing from the […]
Russians are the largest group of foreigners in Bulgaria, the National Statistical Institute (NSI) said in a special report, citing figures as at December 31 2017. At that date, when […]
