RFE/RL’s Bulgarian Service relaunched in 2019 after a 15-year absence, providing independent news and original analysis to help strengthen a media landscape weakened by the monopolization of ownership and corruption.
In an interview with RFE/RL's Bulgarian Service, former Bulgarian Prime Minister Nikolay Denkov blamed the U.S.-sanctioned oligarch Delyan Peevski for the recent government collapse and said the influential politician was the " biggest evil in Bulgaria."
Bulgarian President Rumen Radev, who has been accused by the opposition of taking a pro-Russian stance, has refused to endorse the replacement of current caretaker Foreign Minister Stefan Dimitrov with Daniel Mitov from the pro-Western GERB party.
A multimillion-dollar project aimed at recreating a lost ancient Thracian city has stirred controversy in Bulgaria. Critics say the mock-up, funded with EU and state funds, has nothing to do with the reality of the ancient city. The authors defend it and say it will attract thousands of tourists.
Kristalina Georgieva, a Bulgarian economist, will serve as head of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) for a second five-year term, the Washington-based fund said on April 13.
A Bulgarian caretaker government led by Prime Minister Dimitar Glavchev was sworn in by parliament on April 9 after being appointed by President Rumen Radev, who also announced a snap general election for June 9.
Romania and Bulgaria have formally joined -- at least partially -- Europe’s visa-free Schengen travel zone as of March 31, a move widely hailed in both countries as well as the EU after years of painful negotiations.
Bulgaria is preparing for yet another general election -- the sixth since April 2021 -- after the populist There Is Such a People (ITN) party on March 28 refused to form a government, the third party to decline the mandate.
Thousands of people in the Bulgarian capital, Sofia, joined with Orthodox Christian leaders on March 16 to bid a final farewell to Patriarch Neophyte, who died on March 13 after a long illness.
Bulgaria’s reformist We Continue the Change/Democratic Bulgaria political bloc (PP-DB) on March 15 condemned an incident the day before in which a mob cornered a Jewish member of parliament representing the PP-DB in a cafe, calling him names and shouting anti-Semitic phrases at him.
Bulgarian Prime Minister Nikolay Denkov has submitted his resignation to the National Assembly as part of a planned step with his party's governing coalition party that calls for the rotation of the office after nine months.
Mourners outside of Russia, including Russians living abroad, held memorial services for opposition leader Aleksei Navalny on March 1 as his funeral took place in Moscow. People in Armenia, Georgia, and Bulgaria placed signs, flowers, and candles for Navalny, whom some described as a source of hope.
Parts of statues from a massive and contentious communist-era monument in Sofia have been located outside a warehouse in a village near the Bulgarian capital. The statues were removed from the Monument to the Soviet Army.
A sixth Bulgarian citizen has been charged in Britain with allegedly being a member of a Russian spy network operating in the United Kingdom, British prosecutors said.
An investigative journalist has said he helped plan a potential prisoner swap meant to include late Russian opposition leader Aleksei Navalny. But Western officials say the plan was only in the early stages, and the Kremlin says it was not aware of any prisoner swap.
Investigative journalist Christo Grozev told RFE/RL that there was a plan in the works to exchange Russian opposition leader Aleksei Navalny for convicted murderer and former colonel in Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB) Vadim Krasikov.
Bulgaria has banned two Russian citizens from entering Bulgaria and the entire European Union for five years over their alleged role in a security agency operation in the Balkan country, its state security agency said on February 26.
A Bulgarian lawmaker who has been sanctioned by the United States and Britain for alleged corruption, has been elected a co-president of the Movement for Rights and Freedoms at the party’s national convention in Sofia.
Farmers from across Bulgaria blocked two main thoroughfares in the capital, Sofia, on February 13, pouring milk onto the streets as they called for the resignation of Agriculture Minister Kiril Vatev among other demands.
Farmers in Bulgaria continued a nationwide protest for a fourth straight day, demanding more state compensation for being undercut by cheaper imports from Ukraine. Dozens blocked roads in the village of Trud on February 8 after farmers in other European countries held protests.
Bulgarian national television reported on February 5 that investigators have detained an employee from the Interior Ministry's unit fighting organized crime on suspcion of spying for Moscow.
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