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.
Senator Marco Rubio (Republican-Florida) is asking U.S. officials to review the national-security implications of AT&T's planned sale of its majority stake in Central European Media Group Enterprises (CME).
Anti-corruption prosecutors in the Spanish autonomous region of Catalonia are investigating a money laundering case with possible links to Bulgarian Prime Minister Boyko Borisov, Business News Europe reported on February 23, citing a newspaper in Barcelona.
A Bulgarian court has approved the extradition of a Ukrainian man suspected of co-organizing an acid attack on a Ukrainian activist that eventually led to her death.
The United States has high hopes that the European Union will begin accession talks next month with North Macedonia and Albania and considers the two countries' EU path essential, the U.S. special representative for the Western Balkans told RFE/RL on February 10.
Bulgaria's parliament has adopted amendments to the country's central-bank law in order to ease its accession to the "waiting room" of the eurozone.
The United States has imposed sanctions on Andon Mitalov, a Bulgarian judge that the State Department says is involved in "significant" corruption in the Balkan state.
Bulgarian gambling czar Vasil Bozhkov has been arrested in the United Arab Emirates on charges he is facing at home of tax fraud, attempted bribery, and organized crime, the chief prosecutor said on February 2.
Bulgarian gaming czar Vasil Bozhkov has been charged in absentia of extortion and attempted bribery among other crimes, and placed on an international wanted list, Prosecutor-General Ivan Geshev said on January 29.
Bulgarian Prime Minister Boyko Borisov's center-right government has survived a vote of no-confidence called by the opposition over water shortages that have already cost Environment Minister Neno Dimov his job.
A court in Bulgaria on January 27 sent Ukrainian national Oleksiy Moskalenko (Levin) to jail for 40 days based on a red Interpol notice issued by Ukraine on suspicion of co-organizing an attack on a Ukrainian activist that led to her death.
Bulgaria is expelling two unnamed Russian diplomats accused of involvement in spying in the Balkan country.
Bulgarian prosecutors have charged three Russians in absentia for the attempted murder of a weapons manufacturer, his son, and the production manager of the company.
Bulgaria's lawmakers have approved Emil Dimitrov as environment and water minister after his predecessor was charged with deliberate mismanagement of water supplies in a western region.
Bulgarian authorities have detained the country’s minister of environment and water for 24 hours in relation to a criminal investigation over water shortages in and aroun
Bulgaria's top judicial body has voted for a second time to appoint Ivan Geshev as the next chief prosecutor, overriding a presidential veto.
Bulgarian President Rumen Radev has rejected the Supreme Judicial Council's choice for a new chief prosecutor, stressing that the selection process was not competitive and was conducted in a manner that doesn't foster public trust in him.
A former Bulgarian lawmaker who is charged with spying for Russia has returned to Sofia from Moscow where he received an award from President Vladimir Putin for his “friendship and cooperation.”
Bulgaria has denied a long-term visa to the incoming Russian defense attache on October 30, a day after expelling a Russian diplomat on suspicion of espionage.
The Bulgarian Foreign Ministry has given a Russian diplomat accused of espionage 24 hours to leave the country after learning that its request to Moscow to recall him by October 28 had not been fulfilled.
Exit polls in Bulgaria found that the ruling center-right GERB party will maintain its nationwide dominance but with less support than four years ago, following the October 27 municipal and mayoral elections.
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