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.
Bulgarian President Rumen Radev said on January 24 that the country would hold early election on April 2 after inconclusive October vote failed to produce a government.
New parliamentary elections will be held in Bulgaria in the spring after the third and last possible attempt to form a new government failed.
Bulgarian Socialist Party leader Kornelia Ninova told BTV television that her party had a "plan for what should unite us" after President Rumen Radev on January 16 handed her the mandate to form a new government.
Bulgarian President Rumen Radev on January 15 announced he will formally ask the Bulgarian socialist party to form a government in a bid to avoid a fifth general election in two years.
Lyudmil Yordanov is a third-generation maker of traditional Bulgarian "kuker" masks. He returned from doing menial jobs in the United States to develop the family craft.
Bulgarian President Rumen Radev has formally asked the second-largest political party in parliament to form a government in a bid to avoid a fifth general election in two years.
Two Bulgarian brothers are campaigning for limits to be placed on the size of dams, arguing that many existing hydropower installations in their country are destroying aquatic life.
Bulgaria's National Assembly has rejected Nikolay Gabrovski's nomination for prime minister, raising the specter of yet another political crisis in the country and a fifth election in the past two years.
An investigation by RFE/RL and other media has raised serious questions about alleged abuses of migrants arriving in Bulgaria. Secretly shot videos showed people being held in a foul-smelling wooden building with barred windows. People said they were mistreated and returned to Turkey.
Bulgaria has denied that its border police fired at refugees on the border with Turkey a day after the release of a video showing a man being shot at the border.
The Bulgarian government has criticized the Netherlands' decision to block the southeastern EU member's accession into Europe's passport-free Schengen zone, calling it an act of "cynicism."
Bulgaria has charged five people with helping one of the suspects in last weekend's bombing in central Istanbul, which killed six people, prosecutors said on November 19.
Trade union supporters took to the streets in front of the Bulgarian parliament building in Sofia to demand higher wages to combat surging inflation in the EU’s poorest country.
Two people have been arrested in connection with the murder of a Bulgarian border policeman who was shot and killed while on patrol on the country's border with Turkey.
A Bulgarian policeman has been shot and killed while on patrol on the country's border with Turkey, the Interior Ministry said on November 8, amid an influx of people trying to cross into the European Union country.
A Bulgarian government official revealed on November 7 that remains found in Bulgaria in September belonged to a prominent Ukrainian military pilot who had been missing for months, and the body has been returned to Ukraine for burial.
Bulgaria's parliament has overwhelmingly voted to send heavy military aid to Ukraine, ending months of tension and disputes around the topic among the Balkan NATO member's political parties.
Sofia has rejected Russian claims that a truck suspected of blowing up a key bridge linking the country to the Russia-occupied Crimean Peninsula traveled through Bulgarian territory.
Bulgaria could be forced into new elections yet again after the victorious center-right GERB party was rebuffed by what many regarded as its last hope for coalition talks in a hung parliament days after its fourth elections in just 18 months.
Bulgaria's center-right GERB party, the winner of the country's October 2 snap election, will initiate negotiations with other parties to try to form a government, GERB leader Boyko Borisov, the former long-serving prime minister, said on October 4.
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