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.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy has said he is grateful to Bulgaria for not extending restrictions on Ukrainian grain imports from September 15.
The Bulgarian government on September 13 said it favors lifting the ban on Ukrainian grain imports in return for additional compensation for its farmers, but Hungary, Poland, Romania, and Slovakia insist that the current ban be extended by the European Commission and threatened to unilaterally take action if their demands are not met.
Heavy rains pounded areas across the Black and Aegean sea regions, leaving at least four people dead in southeastern Bulgaria.
The ECHR said Bulgaria violated the rights of a same-sex couple by not recognizing their marriage abroad, a ruling LGBT rights activists said would help seal a legal vacuum in the country, which does not allow same-sex marriage and does not recognize same-sex couples married abroad.
Despite protests, officials in the Bulgarian capital, Sofia, vow to press ahead with plans to dismantle and move the capital's Monument to the Soviet Army.
Bulgaria will allow a Russian national to stay in the country, after earlier rejecting three asylum requests.
Gaming czar Vassil Bozhkov, 67, was detained upon his return to Bulgaria from self-imposed exile, the Sofia prosecutor’s office said on August 25.
Faded Communist Party signs, chipped kitchenware, and political speeches on a dusty record player are on display at Evgeni Mladenov's newly opened communism museum in the Bulgarian mountain village of Banite. The time capsule brings visitors back to the 1980s and immerses them in the Cold War past.
A Soviet Army monument in the Bulgarian capital, Sofia, was defaced by a group of soccer fans late on August 17.
A former Bulgarian secret agent who became a prominent businessman in the post-communist era was shot dead on August 16 in broad daylight in a suburb of Sofia.
Three Bulgarian nationals suspected of spying for Russia in the U.K. have been arrested and charged as part of a major national security investigation, the BBC reported on August 15.
The mayor of a Bulgarian town has been arrested in an investigation into an alleged fraud involving EU funds meant for a project to increase energy efficiency in multifamily residential buildings, the European Public Prosecutor’s Office said.
An 18-year-old Bulgarian woman whose case of domestic abuse triggered nationwide protests has thanked Bulgarians for their support, which led to changes in the legislation against domestic violence in the Balkan EU member state.
The Bulgarian National Assembly on August 7 approved changes in the Criminal Code and the law on protection from domestic violence following a shocking case of abuse against an 18-year-old woman that sparked mass protests.
A man in Bulgaria who took to social media to downplay a recent knife attack on a young woman that shocked the country was suspended by the company where he worked. It was an unusual step in traditionally conservative Bulgaria, where activists say too little has been done to protect women's rights.
Bulgaria is the world’s largest producer of rose oil, used in medicines and perfumes, but its centuries-old industry is struggling. First COVID-19, then a lack of pickers, and now a threat of new European Union rules have made for hard times on the country's sweeping fields of roses.
Thousands of people staged protest rallies in the capital, Sofia, and other Bulgarian cities on July 31 following a case of shocking violence against an 18-year-old woman.
Thousands of people staged protest rallies in the capital, Sofia, and other Bulgarian cities following a case of shocking violence against an 18-year-old woman.
The Bulgarian parliament voted to send additional military and technical support to Ukraine, including some 100 Soviet-era armored vehicles from the NATO country’s reserves.
Former Bulgarian presidential candidate Boyan Rasate has been convicted for hooliganism after attacking an activist at an LGBT center in 2021 while he was running for office.
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