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.
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.
After more than a month of protests calling for his resignation, Bulgarian Prime Minister Boyko Borisov has called for the convening of a grand national assembly to consider and adopt a new constitution.
A man who was filmed assaulting an RFE/RL correspondent at a rally for Bulgaria’s ruling GERB party in Sofia has been charged with hooliganism and detained after admitting to being a paid provocateur.
Bulgarian police have cleared traffic blockades set up by protesters in the capital and other cities for the past week to demand the resignation of Prime Minister Boyko Borisov's conservative government over corruption, the Interior Ministry says.
Two RFE/RL journalists were assaulted at a rally for Bulgaria's ruling GERB party in Sofia, where Prime Minister Boyko Borisov was speaking. RFE/RL has called for an investigation and for Bulgarian authorities to condemn the incident.
Thousands of people marched in the capital, Sofia, and other cities across Bulgaria on July 29, marking three weeks of protests to demand the resignation of the government and the prosecutor-general.
Thousands of people marched in cities across Bulgaria on July 29, marking three weeks of protests to demand the resignation of the government and the prosecutor-general.
Several hundred people protested the government in the Bulgarian capital on July 25 despite a cabinet reshuffle meant to appease them.
Bulgarian Prime Minister Boyko Borisov was placed in quarantine late on July 23 after a test showed that his chief of staff had contracted the coronavirus.
Bulgarian Prime Minister Boyko Borisov has replaced three key ministers in a reshuffle meant to appease weeks-long anti-corruption protests.
Bulgaria's center-right government has survived a no-confidence vote initiated by the opposition, who accuse it of failing to fight endemic corruption.
Bulgarians took to the streets of the capital and other citiestto press demands that the prime minister resign over allegations of corruption.
Bulgaria’s prime minister has asked his finance, economy, and interior ministers to step down.
Hundreds of protesters stormed a Bulgarian Black Sea beach to protest and draw attention to what they say is endemic corruption among the country's elites.
Thousands of protesters took to the streets of the Bulgarian capital of Sofia for a fifth-straight day on July 13.
Thousands gathered in front of Bulgarian President Rumen Radev's office in Sofia in support of the presidency after prosecutors raided the offices of two of Radev's staff on July 9.
A confrontation on what is ostensibly public property has drawn attention to the special protection provided to leaders of a small Bulgarian party in what activists are calling an example of Bulgaria's "lawlessness."
Thousands of Bulgarians took to the streets of the capital, Sofia, and other cities on July 7 to protest overconstruction on the country's Black Sea coast and planned amendments to the Biodiversity Act that they say would facilitate construction in protected areas.
On July 4, 1950, Radio Free Europe made its first broadcast, transmitting a program to communist Czechoslovakia. But over the decades that followed, the news organization's broadcasts were not always heard loud and clear by audiences in communist-controlled Central and Eastern Europe. Ahead of the 70th anniversary of that first broadcast, RFE/RL's Bulgarian Service was given a tour of a Cold War-era jamming station by an engineer who once worked there.
Bulgaria's richest businessman, who is currently living in self-imposed exile in Dubai, has fired the latest salvo in his ongoing social-media war against the government, comparing himself to folk hero Ali Baba in a Facebook cartoon.
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