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Billboards promoting tolerance towards same-sex couples, put up in various Bulgarian cities, have been targeted by vandalism and public outrage. The negative response has prompted organisers of the campaign to […]
The District Court in the Bulgarian Black Sea city of Varna has remanded in custody a 38-year-old Russian sought for extradition by the United States in connection with alleged online […]
The USNS Carson City docked in the Bulgarian port of Varna on August 27 for a visit that will continue until August 29 and is part of the vessel’s first […]
A plaque, placed by the Organization of the Jews in Bulgaria “Shalom”, has been unveiled in the port of Varna honouring the people of the city and the Bulgarian sailors […]
After repeated delays, the “blue zone” paid parking system in Bulgaria’s largest Black Sea city Varna went into effect on July 10, public broadcaster Bulgarian National Television reported. This comes […]
Just as the summer holiday season begins to pick up speed, getting a place in a Bulgarian railways sleeping car on trains to the Black Sea cities of Varna and […]
More than 100 million leva would be needed to avert Varna being flooded after intense rainfall of the kind that hit the Bulgarian Black Sea city on June 4, mayor […]
Torrential rain inundated Bulgaria’s largest Black Sea city Varna on June 4, bringing down trees, turning streets into rivers and disrupting traffic. Rain was bucketing down at a rate of […]
The head of the Varna diocese of the Bulgarian Orthodox Church, Metropolitan Yoan, has spoken out against the construction of a crematorium in the Black Sea city. The ground-breaking for […]
The 2018 summer seaside holiday season was officially opened in Bulgaria’s largest Black Sea city Varna on May 19. Varna mayor Ivan Portnih presided at the event at the Sea […]
