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.
The Bulgarian parliament on December 8 voted overwhelmingly to provide surplus air-defense missiles to Ukraine.
LUKoil, Russia's largest private oil company, says it is reviewing its business strategy in Bulgaria and is not ruling out selling its entire operation in the Balkan EU and NATO member.
Bulgarian President Rumen Radev has vetoed the country's plans to send 100 surplus armored personnel carriers (APCs) to Ukraine, sending the arrangement back to parliament for reconsideration.
Bulgaria's Foreign Ministry says it has given permission to Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov's plane to cross its airspace en route to North Macedonia's capital, Skopje, where he is to attend a November 29-December 1 meeting of the Council of Ministers of the OSCE.
For years, he was mostly known as an oligarch and media mogul, who rarely appeared in public and is sanctioned by the U.S. for his "extensive role in corruption in Bulgaria." But now, Delyan Peevski is coming out of the shadows and is increasingly a more influential presence.
A transgender woman is staging a hunger strike outside a courthouse in the Bulgarian capital, Sofia, after the country's highest appeals court ruled in February that Bulgarian law "does not envisage" legal changes to someone's gender.
A demonstration by thousands of Bulgarian football fans in Sofia on November 16 to demand the resignation of the president of the Bulgarian Football Union (BFS) and its leadership turned violent, resulting in injuries and arrests.
Samar Chinino's first thought when war broke out in her home in Gaza on October 7 was to get her child away from the window. Her experience in past conflicts helped her to keep her family safe until they could get out, through Egypt. They made it to Bulgaria, where Chinino was born. Now the Palestinian-Bulgarian mother finds herself making do in a safe but unexpected new home, Sofia.
Vassil Terziev, the candidate of the reformist pro-Western coalition We Continue the Change/Democratic Bulgaria has won a crucial runoff mayoral race in the capital, Sofia, almost-complete results showed early on November 6.
Bulgarian voters are electing hundreds of mayors and other local posts in November 5 runoffs. In the capital, Sofia, entrepreneur Vasil Terziev is facing Vanya Grigorova, a trade-union activist with a record of pro-Kremlin statements.
Initial exit polls in Bulgaria show that reformist pro-Western coalition We Continue the Change/Democratic Bulgaria is leading in the crucial mayoral race in the capital, Sofia, although former Prime Minister Boyko Borisov's center-right GERB party appears to be performing solidly elsewhere.
The first Bulgarian citizens evacuated from Gaza arrived in Sofia on November 3. A Palestinian-Bulgarian man, Ala el-Sharafi, came with his wife, Sali, and their daughter Siyka. They were welcomed by Ala's mother, also named Siyka.
The first Bulgarian citizens to escape Gaza -- a family of three -- have arrived in Sofia.
Ahead of local elections last weekend, Bulgarian officials cancelled machine voting 36 hours before polls opened. The move sparked protests and -- ahead of a November 5 runoff -- has thrown the election administration into chaos and strained the ties of the country's ruling coalition.
Bulgaria has expelled Russian journalist Aleksandr Gatsak, a correspondent for the Russian-government's Rossiiskaya Gazeta, for "security reasons."
Bulgaria's government approved on October 25 the construction of two nuclear reactors using U.S. technology as the country seeks to diversify its energy sources.
An investigation has linked an explosion at a Bulgarian arms depot in 2011 to the activity of a notorious unit of Russia’s military intelligence that has been accused of involvement in other blasts and poisonings in NATO countries.
The European Commission is investigating a deal allowing Bulgaria to access gas supplies via Turkey over a possible breach of the bloc's antitrust rules.
Bulgaria's government has defended its decision to impose a new tax on Russian gas transiting through the country as Hungary and Serbia -- which rely on supplies from Moscow -- vowed to respond to the move, which they called a “hostile” step.
Bulgaria's government survived a no-confidence vote on October 13 that was filed by three opposition parties over plans for a transition to cleaner energy and other policies in the energy sector.
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