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.
Sofia’s city council has approved a proposal to dismantle the massive monument to the Soviet Army and relocate it to another site in the Bulgarian capital.
Bulgarian authorities say a van carrying migrants crashed early on February 26, killing one person and injuring 32 others.
The European Commission says Bulgaria's adoption of the euro by next January is "no longer realistic" because of inflation, an acknowledgement that sheds greater light on the caretaker government in Sofia's announcement last week that its new "target date" is January 2025.
Bulgarian police have found a van carrying 43 migrants near the town of Ihtiman, 55 kilometers southeast of the capital, Sofia.
Seven people have been arrested in Bulgaria a day after the bodies of 18 Afghan migrants were found in an abandoned truck near the village of Lokorsko outside capital, Sofia, authorities said on February 18.
Bulgaria will not adopt the euro from January 1, 2024, as the country planned, Finance Minister Rositsa Velkova said on February 17.
Police in Bulgaria on February 17 discovered an abandoned truck containing the bodies of 18 migrants who appeared to have suffocated to death.
Britain and the United States on February 10 announced sanctions on eight Bulgarian politicians who have served as members of parliament and held top government jobs in a coordinated action targeting corruption in the NATO and EU-member country.
The comics that fired Juliano Dimitrov's imagination as a child in Bulgaria are back -- thanks in part to his own artistic skills. The only state-sanctioned comic of the country in the 1980s, Duga, or Rainbow, is being revived. This edition melds the artwork of new creatives with that of veterans.
Bulgarian President Rumen Radev has signed a decree dissolving the parliament and setting April 2 as the date for early elections -- the country's fifth in two years -- after an inconclusive October vote failed to produce a government.
The Bulgarian National Assembly has approved legislation declaring the 1932-33 famine caused by the policies of the Soviet government led by Joseph Stalin a genocide.
Bulgarian President Rumen Radev said on January 24 that the country would hold early election on April 2 after inconclusive October vote failed to produce a government.
New parliamentary elections will be held in Bulgaria in the spring after the third and last possible attempt to form a new government failed.
Bulgarian Socialist Party leader Kornelia Ninova told BTV television that her party had a "plan for what should unite us" after President Rumen Radev on January 16 handed her the mandate to form a new government.
Bulgarian President Rumen Radev on January 15 announced he will formally ask the Bulgarian socialist party to form a government in a bid to avoid a fifth general election in two years.
Lyudmil Yordanov is a third-generation maker of traditional Bulgarian "kuker" masks. He returned from doing menial jobs in the United States to develop the family craft.
Bulgarian President Rumen Radev has formally asked the second-largest political party in parliament to form a government in a bid to avoid a fifth general election in two years.
Two Bulgarian brothers are campaigning for limits to be placed on the size of dams, arguing that many existing hydropower installations in their country are destroying aquatic life.
Bulgaria's National Assembly has rejected Nikolay Gabrovski's nomination for prime minister, raising the specter of yet another political crisis in the country and a fifth election in the past two years.
An investigation by RFE/RL and other media has raised serious questions about alleged abuses of migrants arriving in Bulgaria. Secretly shot videos showed people being held in a foul-smelling wooden building with barred windows. People said they were mistreated and returned to Turkey.
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