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The Bulgarian Orthodox Church still has no official position on the Ecumenical Patriarchate’s decision that Ukraine could have its own Orthodox Christian church independent of Moscow, Patriarch Neofit said in […]
In Saint Sophia’s Cathedral in Kyiv, currently a museum, there is scaffolding and noise. I visited the church, which boasts some of the most stunning medieval mosaics in Central Europe, […]
Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko has told visiting Bulgarian Prime Minister Boiko Borissov: “I dream that we will sit together in a car, either in Varna or in Odessa, and in […]
The Council of the European Union has prolonged the restrictive measures over actions undermining or threatening the territorial integrity, sovereignty and independence of Ukraine for a further six months, until March 15 2019, […]
The Council of the European Union said on June 18 that it was extending restrictive measures in response to the illegal annexation of Crimea and Sevastopol by Russia until June […]
At a ceremony on May 27, Bulgarian Prime Minister Boiko Borissov and his Ukrainian counterpart Volodymyr Groysman opened a square and unveiled a memorial in honour of Dimitar Peshev, who […]
Ukraine has an important place among the foreign policy priorities of Bulgaria, Prime Minister Boiko Borissov told President Petro Poroshenko in Kyiv on May 26. Borissov is the first Bulgarian […]
Mohammad Zahoor, only the second owner in the Kyiv Post’s nearly 23-year history, has decided to sell the newspaper to Adnan Kivan, an Odesa multi-millionaire businessman and native of Syria. […]
Next month the Eastern Partnership (EaP) summit convenes for the fifth time. This could be a crucial moment for the future of the European Union’s neighbourhood policy: the partnership holds […]
Ukraine’s parliament, the Verkhovna Rada, on Oct. 3 passed a judicial reform bill that would make it almost impossible to investigate many criminal cases, including corruption cases against top officials, […]
