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.
Supporters of Bulgaria's pro-Russian party Vazrazhdane (Revival) clashed with police and set fire to the entrance of the European Commission building in Sofia on February 22. The incident occurred during a protest against Bulgaria's adoption of the euro.
Bulgarians and Romanians celebrated the lifting of European Union visa restrictions, as the two EU members gained full entry into the bloc’s Schengen Zone.
A Bulgarian accused of spying for Russia in Britain discussed in text messages the possibility of kidnapping or murdering investigative journalist Christo Grozev, British prosecutors said during the trial of members of an alleged spy ring.
The premiere of a play directed by world-famous actor and director John Malkovich for Bulgaria's National Theater was disrupted by pro-Russian nationalist demonstrators on November 7.
Hundreds of Bulgarian nationalists have disrupted the premiere of a play directed by John Malkovich that they claimed was "insulting" Bulgarians, demanding that it be banned and the American actor expelled.
Partial official results show that Bulgaria's center-right GERB party is poised to win the country’s parliamentary elections, but without enough support to break a prolonged political stalemate.
Polling stations opened in Bulgaria on October 27 for the seventh parliamentary elections in three years. Divisions and mistrust on Bulgaria's political scene have deepened, enhancing the role of caretaker cabinets appointed by President Rumen Radev.
In what appears to be the continuation of a long-standing political deadlock, exit polls gave former Prime Minister Boyko Borisov’s center-right GERB party the most votes in Bulgaria’s parliamentary elections but without enough support to cobble together a government.
The devices looked like those made by Taiwanese-based Gold Apollo, but the company said they were actually produced by a Hungarian company. Now, new findings point to additional connections in Bulgaria and Norway.
President Rumen Radev has accepted the proposed cabinet of acting Prime Minister Dimitar Glavchev, giving poverty- and corruption-stricken Bulgaria a caretaker government as it heads toward its seventh general election in three years.
Bulgaria’s parliamentary elections, which were scheduled for October 20, have been indefinitely postponed after President Rumen Radev refused to sign a decree approving the formation of a caretaker government.
Bulgarian President Rumen Radev has signed into law a recently adopted amendment banning LGBT "promotion" in schools despite calls to veto it from Bulgarian intellectuals as rights groups staged a protest against the measure on August 15.
The Council of Europe commissioner for human rights, Michael O'Flaherty, has called on Bulgarian president Rumen Radev not to sign a law banning LGBT "promotion" in schools.
Protesters have turned out in force in Sofia after the Bulgarian parliament passed an amendment to ban LGBT "propaganda" in schools. Protesters say that the new legal ban will harm not only young LGBT people but also heterosexuals.
Bulgarian President Rumen Radev has selected Goritsa Grancharova-Kozhareva, the deputy chairwoman of the Audit Chamber, to serve as acting prime minister and tasked her with forming an acting cabinet.
Saber-fencing world champion Olha Kharlan won Ukraine's first medal at the 2024 Paris Olympics on July 29, giving her country something to celebrate as it battles invading Russian forces.
Bulgaria's There Is Such A People (ITN) party on August 5 returned the mandate to form a government to President Rumen Radev -- the third party to do so since an inconclusive June 16 election -- thus prompting Radev to schedule yet another parliamentary election within 60 days.
Three Bulgarian citizens have been detained on suspicion of vandalizing the Holocaust Memorial in Paris in May, the State Agency for National Security (DANS) said on July 26.
Shortly after Bulgarian President Rumen Radev on July 1 asked the center-right GERB-SDS coalition to form a new government, the party submitted its proposal for a minority cabinet headed by former parliament speaker Rosen Zhelyazkov.
A council of the Bulgarian Orthodox Church has elected Metropolitan Daniil of Vidin as the church's new patriarch, a man seen as a pro-Russian who is close to Moscow.
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