For the upcoming Christian holidays of Palm Sunday on April 12 and the Orthodox Easter on April 19, the police presence throughout the country will be strengthened, the Secretary General of the Ministry of Interior, Chief Commissioner Ivaylo Ivanov, announced at an extraordinary briefing. There are about 4,000 churches in Bulgaria, and there will be police officers around all of them to oversee the order. The checkpoints set up at the entrance and exit points of the big cities continue to operate.
The Bulgarian Orthodox Church (BOC) is the only representative of the country's traditional Eastern Orthodoxy. This was decided by MPs in the final amendments to the Law on Religious Denominations. The amendment, which states that only the BOC can use the..
The claims of Bulgarian citizens investigated for espionage in the UK about their links to the "highest echelons" of power in Bulgaria, are not based on any factual evidence and are as absurd as the manipulative abuse of them, reads a statement by the..
''Vazrazhdane'' is submitting a draft resolution on the coutry's withdrawal from the agreement with the World Health Organization (WHO), the party said. ''Vazrazhdane'' demands that the cabinet terminates the Basic Agreement between the Government of..
Bulgaria is well advanced in the process of meeting the criteria for joining the Eurozone, European Central Bank President Christine Lagarde said during..
The idea of the state acquiring the only oil refinery in Bulgaria – Lukoil Neftohim in Burgas – as proposed on 29 January by the Movement for Rights and..
The case with the detained Bulgarian ship Vezhen was discussed behind closed doors in the European Parliament's Security and Defense Committee on..
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