The religious services on Easter will be held in front of the temples. I am calling on the Bulgarians to refrain from going to church in that moment. May only those who need the temple the most go to church on Easter, Premier Borissov said after a meeting with the Holy Synod of the Bulgarian Orthodox Church.
The Holy Fire will not be brought from Jerusalem, because the Church has kept it from last year's Easter. The money that had to be spent on the flight to Tel Aviv will be redirected towards the activities aimed to contain the Covid-19 epidemic. It also became clear that no willow twigs and flowers will be handed to the Christians on Palm Sunday.
No nuclear weapons will be stored at the Graf Ignatievo airbase near Plovdiv . This was confirmed in a written reply by interim Defence Minister Atanas Zapryanov to a question from BSP MP Ivan Petkov. The new fighter jets at the base will be equipped..
Bulgaria's president has not refused to appoint a new ambassador to Ukraine, Rumen Radev's press service said. There was a proposal from the Denkov-Gabriel cabinet for an ambassador to Ukraine in October 2023, which the president had approved,..
Bulgarians drive more than their Balkan neighbours, averaging more than 21 000 km per year, according to a survey by CarVertical , reported by BGNES. They are closely followed by the Serbs, who drive an average of 20,028 kilometres per year, and the..
The best Bulgarian students in mathematics have won 5 medals by participating in the most prestigious mathematics competition in the world for 2024. At..
The former Bulgarian Minister of Defense Nikolay Nenchev will be temporarily in charge of the Bulgarian Embassy in Ukraine. This decision was taken by..
For the first time, the Bulgarian Antarctic base on Livingston Island will study in detail the pulsations in the Earth's ionosphere caused by solar..
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