Section: Bulgaria
EU Sends Foreign Policy Chief to Moscow as Tensions over Navalny Jail Sentence Mount
European Union foreign policy chief Josep Borrell jets to Moscow on February 4 amid jailing of Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny and crackdown against protesters. According to the Moscow Times, Borrell’s visit marks the first to Russia by a tip EU envoy since 2017. His trip, however, has drawn criticism from some European capitals worried...
The Economist: Bulgaria Continues to Fall into the Group of “defective democracies”
The Economist: Bulgaria continues to fall into the group of “defective democracies” Bulgaria continues to deteriorate and has already moved to the bottom half of the “defective democracies” category. The Economist Intelligence Unit explains this in its annual ranking of the state of democracy in the world in 2020. The...
President Rumen Radev to seek second term
President Rumen Radev announced he would be running for a second term of office alongside Vice-President Iliana Iotova. During a one-hour press conference marking four years since his inauguration, the Bulgarian head of state called for reforms in the Election Code, the updating of the electoral registers, live streaming of the election protocols...
Bulgarian school to open in Odessa
At a meeting with Bulgaria’s Consul General Svetoslav Ivanov, Chairman of the Odessa Regional State Administration, Sergei Grinevetsky supported the idea of opening a Bulgarian school in Odessa, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs has reported. The question was first raised by Bulgarian Minister of Foreign Affairs Ekaterina Zaharieva during...
Coronavirus Global March – Cases Surpass 100 Million
Global coronavirus cases surpassed 100 million on Wednesday, according to a Reuters tally, as countries around the world struggle with new virus variants and vaccine shortfalls. Almost 1.3% of the world’s population has now been infected with COVID-19, the disease caused by the novel coronavirus, and more than 2.1 million people have died....
Joe Biden Had Phone Talk with Vladimir Putin, Raised Some Sore Issues
US President Joe Biden has had his first call with Vladimir Putin, the White House and Kremlin said. Mr Biden raised concerns about the arrest of opposition figure Alexei Navalny while pressing the Russian president on his nation’s involvement in a massive cyber espionage campaign and bounties on American troops in Afghanistan, US officials...
Trump Impeachment Article Sent to Senate
The US House of Representatives presented a single article of impeachment to the Senate on Monday accusing Donald Trump of inciting the storming of the Capitol, setting in motion the first-ever impeachment trial of a former president. In a solemn procession, the nine House impeachment managers silently walked the article through the same ornate...
Navalny’s Team Released Two-Hour Video Featuring Putin’s Deluxe Palace in Crimea
Alexei Navalny’s team on Tuesday released a two-hour video featuring details of a luxurious property on Russia’s southern Black Sea coast purportedly belonging to Russian President Vladimir Putin. The YouTube feature, accompanied by a blog post from the jailed dissident, claims Putin’s property cost $1.35 billion (€1.1 billion)...
Photographers to capture life of Bessarabian Bulgarians
Documentary photographers Mihaela Arroyo and Denislav Stoychev are in the city of Taraclia in Moldova to capture the lives of Bessarabian Bulgarians, BTA reports. Their idea is for photos to show more about our compatriots who emigrated to Wallachia, Moldova and Ukraine during the Russo-Turkish War; “not only their customs and traditions,...
Serbia’s Slobodan Simic wins Aleko 2020 literary award
The celebrations of the 158th anniversary of the birth of the emblematic Bulgarian writer Aleko Konstantinov began today in his native town Svishtov. The Aleko Literary Prize was awarded for the 54th time. This year’s winner of the distinction for a humorous short story is Serbian psychiatrist, aphorist and writer Slobodan Simic. He was...
