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.
The Bulgarian government has announced the reimposition of tougher restrictions, including the closure of restaurants and schools, in an effort to contain a surge in coronavirus cases that are straining the country's health system.
A Bulgarian inventor has come up with a new board game specifically designed so that people with visual impairments can play, too. The system consists of 70 tiles and over 500 magnets and, like a pack of cards, can be used to play multiple games, including ones in 3D.
Bulgaria has blocked the start of accession talks between North Macedonia and the European Union over a history and language dispute with its neighbor.
Buzludzha is the biggest communist-era monument in the Balkans. Built on a mountaintop in Bulgaria in 1981, it's since fallen into ruin and its very future is at risk.
Bulgaria is threatening to delay North Macedonia's path toward European Union membership over a history and language dispute with its neighbor.
Bulgarian President Rumen Radev is self-isolating after his chief of staff tested positive for coronavirus, his office says.
Bulgarian Prime Minister Boyko Borisov has tested positive for the coronavirus as the number of those infected with COVID-19 in the EU member country has been on a steady rise over the past two weeks.
Underwater archaeologists in Bulgaria say they have discovered evidence of a human settlement by the mouth of the Ropotamo River on the Black Sea that could date back to the 5th millennium B.C.
Bulgaria, Kosovo, and North Macedonia have signed declarations with the United States on the security of 5G wireless communications networks under which they committed to protect their networks from "untrusted" Chinese tech companies such as Huawei.
Bulgarian President Rumen Radev has left an official trip to Estonia and faces quarantine at home after it was determined he was recently exposed to the coronavirus.
Bulgaria has expelled two Russian diplomats accused of military espionage and ordered them to leave the country within 72 hours, the Bulgarian Foreign Ministry said on September 23.
A Bulgarian court has handed two men life sentences for their roles in the bombing of a bus in July 2012 that killed five Israeli citizens and a bus driver.
A Bulgarian district court has sentenced a deputy parliament speaker and chief of a small opposition party to four years in prison on September 15 for extorting money from a pizza parlor owner.
Anti-government protesters returned to the streets of the Bulgarian capital, Sofia, pressing demands for the resignation of the government and the prosecutor-general.
Bulgaria’s weeks-long political crisis deepened on September 3 as the ruling conservative GERB party rebuffed calls to resign following violent anti-government protests the night before.
Thousands of people gathered into the evening outside Bulgaria's parliament on a day that saw violent clashes and one of the biggest turnouts in nearly two months of anti-government rallies as lawmakers returned to work September 2, after the summer recess.
Violent clashes broke out in the Bulgarian capital, Sofia, between police and protesters who are calling for the resignation of the prime minister and chief prosecutor. The September 2 protest took place outside the parliament as lawmakers returned to work after summer recess.
Violent clashes have broken out in the center of Sofia between Bulgarian police and protesters calling for the resignation of the country’s prime minister and chief prosecutor.
Prosecutors in Sofia confirm they’ve “suspended” an investigation into the 2015 poisoning of a Bulgarian arms dealer that had been focusing on three suspected Russian agents.
Bulgarian Justice Minister Danail Kirilov has tendered his resignation after "a conversation" with Prime Minister Boyko Borisov, the Bulgarian government said in a statement on August 26.
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