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 arrived in Prague on July 6 for a visit with senior Czech officials as Kyiv pushes for NATO membership and more weapons that can be deployed in its ongoing counteroffensive against Russian forces.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy will visit Bulgaria on July 6, according to Bulgarian media reports confirmed by RFE/RL.
Russian activist Aleksandr Stotsky faces deportation after being denied political asylum by Bulgaria. He joins dozens of Russians who have had their applications rejected by the government in Sofia. The 27-year old says he could be sent to war or prison if he is forced to return to Russia.
Bulgaria's top broadcasting and new-media regulator, who was appointed by the country's pro-Russian president, conflated UN-backed evidence of atrocities by Russian forces in Ukraine with anti-Russian "propaganda," setting off a firestorm.
The Bulgarian government has approved a new military aid package for Ukraine, the press service of the Council of Ministers announced on June 26.
New Bulgarian Prime Minister Nikolay Denkov, whose government assumed power three weeks ago, has pledged increased support and better security for the country's defense industry following a second serious fire in less than a year at a private arms company.
A new, powerful fire broke out in a storage room at Bulgarian arms dealer Emilian Gebrev's EMCO arms company in Karnobat, eastern Bulgaria, the manufacturer told RFE/RL on June 25.
Bulgaria’s defense minister, Todor Tagarev, has signaled a likely break from the previous caretaker government’s reluctance to provide lethal aid to Ukraine by pledging an imminent announcement on a fresh package of military assistance, a move that could increase tensions with Bulgaria’s president.
Two Bulgarian women and their mother faced momentous challenges in breaking out of unofficial segregation ingrained into the Romany ghetto where they lived. Anche's daughters Maria and Reneta faced bullying and wanted to quit school. But she believed education was the only way for them to succeed.
Bulgaria's notorious prosecutor-general, Ivan Geshev, has been fired halfway through his seven-year term. However, the process of his dismissal has only confirmed to many that Bulgaria's judiciary is far from independent.
Bulgarian President Rumen Radev fired Prosecutor-General Ivan Geshev on June 15, halfway through his seven-year term amid growing domestic and Western frustration with his failure to tackle endemic corruption.
Bulgarian Foreign Minister Maria Gabriel has called statements about Moscow's ongoing invasion of Ukraine by Russian Ambassador to Sofia Eleonora Mitrofanova "propaganda and disinformation" that are "unacceptable and inappropriate."
Bulgaria's Supreme Judicial Council on June 12 voted to dismiss controversial chief prosecutor Ivan Geshev, who previously refused to resign on national television and attacked his rivals in parliament as "political trash."
Bulgaria's parliament on June 6 approved a coalition government led by Prime Minister Nikolay Denkov, giving the Balkan member of the EU and NATO a new government after five elections within two years.
A top Bulgarian mobster has been shot dead in South Africa. The death of Krasmir Kamenov, or Kuro, has sparked speculation as to why the low-lying kingpin was killed now. Some say he knew too much about the ties between organized crime and elites in Bulgaria and was about to speak out.
The Kremlin is "weaponizing information" to divide U.S. allies in the Balkans, and media outlets in the region should increase efforts to detect Russian disinformation and distinguish it from the truth, a top U.S. diplomat said on June 1 in an interview with RFE/RL.
Bulgaria's Supreme Court has rejected a request for political asylum by 27-year-old Russian Aleksandr Stotsky, who fled Russia immediately after the start of Moscow's invasion of Ukraine.
Ten rescue dog teams train hard to prepare for avalanches and lost hikers in Bulgaria's rugged mountains. The underfunded rescue service depends on dedicated volunteers, who live with their dogs and rely on their own resources. With rescue vehicles scarce, rescuers say dogs help get people down too.
Dozens of people protested the screening at a Russian cultural center in Sofia on May 25 of a Russian film casting the capture last year of the Azovstal steel plant in southern Ukraine as a "liberation" from "neo-Nazis."
Bulgaria's center-right GERB party, which narrowly won last month's parliamentary elections, has reached a compromise with the second-placed We Continue the Change-Democratic Bulgaria coalition to form a government, top officials from both political organizations said.
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