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.
Bulgaria says it does not plan to lift its veto on long-delayed accession talks between North Macedonia and the European Union over a language and history dispute with its neighbor.
Bulgarian caretaker Prime Mnister Stefan Yanev has officially taken office, saying the main priority of his government will be to uphold the rule of law and ensure the fairness of the upcoming snap parliamentary elections.
Bulgarian President Rumen Radev has called snap parliamentary elections for July 11 after a vote last month resulted in a fragmented parliament that failed to produce a government.
Bulgarian President Rumen Radev says he will set July 11 for early parliamentary elections after a third and final attempt to form a government following April 4 polls that led to a fragmented parliament failed.
Bulgaria is heading for a fresh election after the Socialists became the third party to fail to form a government following parliamentary elections on April 4.
Bulgaria says it will expel another Russian diplomat after the country's authorities said they suspected six Russian citizens of involvement in a series of blasts that hit four weapons and armament facilities over the past 10 years.
The Russian envoy has been summoned to the Bulgarian Foreign Ministry after the authorities launched an investigation into six citizens of Russia suspected of involvement in a series of blasts at four weapons and armament facilities in Bulgaria between 2011 and 2020.
Bulgarian Prime Minister Boyko Borisov says that his GERB party will nominate Daniel Mitov, a former foreign minister, to lead the government it will try to form after the April 4 election.
Bulgarian officials have announced they are easing restrictions on businesses and other commercial activity, citing improving numbers of COVID-19 cases and hospitalizations.
Bulgarian Prime Minister Boyko Borisov has announced plans to seek a coalition government after his center-right party placed first in the country’s parliamentary elections, though he cautioned he was "unlikely to succeed."
In the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic, Bulgaria is struggling with a separate, ongoing health crisis: Most patients who need an organ transplant are unable to get one. Bulgaria's restrictive laws on living organ donations have driven some patients to travel abroad for life-saving operations.
Bulgarian Prime Minister Boyko Borisov's center-right party is set to come in first in the April 4 parliamentary elections, but it could struggle to form a ruling coalition after parties behind the mass anti-government protests last summer won a large share of the vote.
Amid parliamentary elections in Bulgaria on April 4, special crews with ballot boxes visited the homes of quarantined voters. Polling stations in the capital, Sofia, have also adopted strengthened hygiene measures amid the soaring COVID-19 outbreak.
The center-right ruling party of Prime Minister Boyko Borisov is projected to win Bulgaria's parliamentary elections with about 25 percent of the vote.
An ethnic-Turkish Bulgarian deputy at the European Parliament has told RFE/RL that he believes he was sanctioned by China because he helped an imprisoned ethnic-Uyghur economist receive the Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thought.
Bulgaria’s government has given two Russian diplomats 72 hours to leave the country, after the authorities uncovered the latest in a string of Moscow-linked spy scandals.
Bulgaria says it has detained and charged six people suspected of passing classified information to Russia.
Bulgaria has announced it will close kindergartens, schools, restaurants, and shopping malls for 10 days as the country battles a surge in COVID-19 infections that have stretched its hospitals.
Two Bulgarian friends, one of whom grew up with deaf parents, have launched an online video series with sign-language interpretation of poetry and films. It's meant to raise the visibility of the deaf community and allow different groups to come closer together through culture.
Bulgarian police have busted a counterfeiting operation at a university in the capital, Sofia.
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