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.
Nikola Minchev, the speaker of Bulgaria's parliament, has tested positive for COVID-19 after he attended a meeting with the country's top politicians and officials.
Bulgaria's President Rumen Radev said on January 10 that officials in Sofia want "real results" from Skopje toward the conditions of a 2017 treaty on good relations before they drop their opposition to North Macedonia's European Union membership talks.
Two journalists in Bulgaria and a website have been convicted of defamation and ordered to pay the equivalent of some $35,000 for articles published in 2018 in what is being described as an unprecedented verdict, RFE/RL’s Bulgarian Service reports.
Experts attribute Bulgaria’s demographic decline to low birth rates, high mortality and an aging population, low fertility rates, and emigration from the EU's poorest member.
Bulgaria’s Prime Minister Kiril Petkov says his government has neither discussed nor taken any decision on an eventual deployment of NATO troops in the Black Sea country as a response to Russia's troop buildup near the border with Ukraine.
Bulgaria's defense chief says there is no need to deploy NATO troops in the Southeast European country in response to Russia's troop buildup near the border with Ukraine.
Bulgaria's lawmakers have voted to freeze electricity and heating prices for households until the end of March, giving the new governing coalition time to come up with a plan to shield the European Union's poorest member state from rising energy costs.
Bulgaria's parliament has confirmed a government led by Kiril Petkov after his new anti-corruption We Continue the Change party (PP) sealed a governing coalition deal with three other factions.
Bulgarian Prime Minister designate Kiril Petkov presented the composition of his future government to the nation as he seeks to end eight months of political deadlock.
Bulgaria's new anti-corruption We Continue the Change party (PP) has reached a coalition deal with three smaller parties, giving the country a new government after eight months of political deadlock.
Bulgaria's largest political party expects to soon form a coalition government and put an end to the political deadlock that has resulted in three parliamentary elections this year.
Bulgarian lawmakers have convened for their first session of parliament since a newly formed anti-graft party emerged as the surprise winner of the country's third general elections this year.
Bulgarian officials say that "human error" on a "dangerous stretch" of highway is the most likely cause of the fiery bus crash this week in western Bulgaria that killed at least 44 people, all of them from North Macedonia and many of them children.
Bulgaria, Kosovo, and North Macedonia have begun holding official days of mourning for the victims of a fiery bus crash just outside Sofia, which killed 46 people, including a dozen children.
At least 45 people, most of them tourists from North Macedonia, have been killed in a fiery bus crash in western Bulgaria, officials said.
The United States has voiced serious "concern" regarding Bulgarian President Rumen Radev's recent statement that Ukraine's Crimean Peninsula, a region forcibly annexed by Moscow in 2014, was "Russian."
Incumbent Bulgarian President Rumen Radev has won a second five-year term, defeating challenger Anastas Gerdzhikov in a runoff vote, according to preliminary results.
Early results from Bulgaria's parliamentary elections indicate a new anti-graft party is heading for a slim victory, potentially handing the party of former Prime Minister Boyko Borisov a shock defeat.
A newly formed anti-graft party appears to be winning Bulgaria's general elections with more than a quarter of the vote, according to partial official results, opening the door to difficult coalition talks in a deeply divided parliament.
Bulgarian officials say an overnight fire at a ward for COVID-19 patients has killed three patients.
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