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Comedian who played president could win Ukraine election
A comedian who shot to fame for playing the role of a president is currently topping opinion polls ahead of Ukraine’s election. …read more Source: Sky...
Beech forests in Central Balkan Park are already part of UNESCO list of natural heritage
The Central Balkan National Park received UNESCO’s World Heritage Site designation on March 27. This way the beech forests in the park have become part of the European heritage site “Ancient and Primeval Beech Forests of the Carpathians and Other Regions of Europe”. Bulgaria participates with its most representative beech...
Searching for an end to eastern Ukraine’s war ahead of presidential polls
The conflict in eastern Ukraine has claimed around 13,000 lives, a quarter of them civilians. That’s according to the United Nations Human Rights Monitoring Mission in Ukraine. Although Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko called on the UN secretary-general back in February to draw up options for a peacekeeping mission in eastern Ukraine,...
Bulgaria Gives BGN 3.5 million to Western Balkan Countries And the Eastern Partnership
Bulgaria will financially support 9 Western Balkan countries and the Eastern Partnership by providing grants of BGN 3 485 028 million for the implementation of projects for the development of education, science, culture, social integration and civil society. This was announced by the press center of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. The Ministry...
No joke: Comedian Zelenskiy leads race to Ukrainian presidency
Ukrainians head to the polls on Sunday for the first round of presidential elections. Many are disappointed in incumbent Petro Poroshenko for his failure to address corruption. They don’t think much of his more traditional rival, former premier Yulia Tymoshenko, either. Instead, the frontrunner in the polls is Volodymyr Zelenskiy, a...
Ukraine’s unenviable choice
KHARKIV, Ukraine – An oligarch, a comedian or a political has-been. Ukrainians will head to the polls on Sunday to choose a president in an election that is less about hope than what locals call the “lesser evil.” The trio of candidates — incumbent President Petro Poroshenko, a billionaire businessman who built a chocolate empire; Volodymyr...
Out of the police cell and into the polling station: Ukraine’s election monitors
Andriy Verbetskiy is not a typical election observer. Just days before Sunday’s presidential vote in Ukraine, he was leading several hundred members of an ultra-nationalist group called the National Militia in a protest that ended in clashes with police. …read more Source:...
Ukraine elections: The plight of IDPs
Since the start of the war in eastern Ukraine in 2014, some 1.5 million people have been internally displaced, fleeing the conflict in the eastern regions. Ukraine is the ninth largest country in the world in terms of the number of internally displaced persons, also known as IDPs. While their status as IDPs guarantees them certain rights,...
The Bulgarian Foreign Minister Considers the Statement of her Turkish Counterpart as Extremely Unacceptable
Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs Ekaterina Zaharieva described the statement of Turkey’s Foreign Minister Mevluth Chavusoglu as extremely unacceptable. In front of journalists in the Council of Ministers, Zaharieva has announced she is ready to be heard in the National Assembly on the subject and has no concerns to...
Ukraine goes to polls with TV comic eyeing the presidency
Actor Vladimir Zelenskiy is tapping into the protest vote as favourite in Sunday’s voteUkraine goes to the polls on Sunday with a comic who plays the president on his own TV show the favourite to become the next president in a protest vote against the country’s leaders.Volodymyr Zelenskiy, an actor with no prior political experience,...
