Yesterday, Bulgaria launched a Unified Information Portal to help Refugees fleeing Ukraine. The portal is the first of its kind in the European Union, the press service of Bulgaria’s Council of Ministers notes.
Full information in Bulgarian and English on the border control requirements for entry into the Republic of Bulgaria is available at: https://gov.bg/bg/ukraine. Upon entering Bulgaria, Bulgarian citizens must present a Bulgarian identity document - identity card or passport. Bulgarian citizens will be allowed to pass the border checkpoint even with expired personal documents.
A special section provides information on how Ukrainian citizens can receive international protection status upon arrival. Citizens can use the platform to submit help and evacuation reports.
Tuesday will be a day of national mourning as an expression of solidarity with our closest neighbour in the Balkans, Prime Minister Rosen Zhelyazkov announced. A fire at a disco in the North Macedonian city of Kočani killed 59..
The fire in town of Kočani, which claimed the lives of 59 people and left 155 injured, was a foreseeable event, said Associate Professor Milen Ivanov, a security expert and former deputy rector of the Academy of the Ministry of the Interior...
Stefanija Alexova, a sophomore at the American University in Bulgaria (AUBG), is one of the victims of the Kočani fire. She was born in the Macedonian town, which became the scene of the tragedy where 59 people lost their lives and 155 were injured...
A protest is taking place in Sofia to demand maximum sentences for a man and a woman who killed animals in a particularly cruel way. So far, nearly..
In response to the tragedy in North Macedonia, where more than 50 people lost their lives in a fire at a nightclub in the town of Kočani, Foreign..
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