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WEBBulgaria’s 2024 elections: Peevski MRF cases against electoral commission decisions head to court. September 10, 2024 The Sofia Globe staff. As the process of registration for Bulgaria’s October early parliamentary elections nears its …
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WEB6 days ago · Bulgarian supreme court upholds refusal to register Dogan’s Democracy, Rights and Freedoms – MRF coalition for October elections. September 12, 2024 The Sofia Globe staff Bulgaria elections 2024. At a sitting on September 12, Bulgaria’s Supreme Administrative Court rejected an appeal by the Movement for Rights and Freedoms.
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WEBMay 17, 2023 · The Sofia Globe provides news, features, insight and analysis about Bulgaria, Central and Eastern Europe and the wider world according to the high professional standards of independence and objectivity that we have set ourselves in our Editorial Charter.
Neo-Nazi Lukov March in Bulgaria: Prosecutors call for public …
WEBFeb 25, 2023 · Bulgaria’s Supreme Administrative Prosecutor’s Office issued a call on February 25 to the Interior Ministry and Sofia’s mayor to ensure the preservation of public order and protection of the rights of the public ahead of the Lukov March, the annual torchlit march in the capital city in honour of a Bulgarian fascist leader at the time of …
Four parties in Bulgaria’s Parliament condemn Lukov March
WEBFebruary 11, 2022 The Sofia Globe staff. Four parties in Bulgaria’s National Assembly have made declarations strongly condemning the Lukov March, planned for February 12, a torchlight procession honouring a pro-Nazi Bulgarian general of the 1930s and 1940s, who led the fascist Union of Bulgarian National Legions. First held in 2003, the Lukov ...
Nato chief in Sofia: Bulgaria is a valued and reliable Nato ally
WEBMay 27, 2024 The Sofia Globe staff Nato, Russia, Ukraine. Bulgaria is a valued and reliable Nato ally, the Alliance’s Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg said in Sofia on May 27 at a joint news conference with Bulgaria’s caretaker Prime Minister Dimitar Glavchev. Stoltenberg and Glavchev held talks on the third and final day of the Nato ...
Bulgaria: Schedule for ‘BG-ALERT’ tests announced
WEBNovember 2, 2023 The Sofia Globe staff. After an unscheduled and unannounced “BG-ALERT” warning system test caused sharp reactions in Bulgaria on the night of November 1, the schedule for tests has been announced. The November 1 signal, sent to subscribers of one of Bulgaria’s three mobile phone operators, has been blamed on “human ...
Sirens to sound in Bulgaria on June 2 2022 to honour memory of …
WEBJune 1, 2022 The Sofia Globe staff. Sirens will sound across Bulgaria for two minutes at noon on June 2 2022 in an annual custom honouring the memory of revolutionary, poet and rebel Hristo Botev, who died in 1876 in the struggle against Ottoman rule, as well as in tribute to all who died for the freedom of Bulgaria. When the sirens sound, all ...
US court imprisons Bulgarian owner of Bitcoin exchange for …
WEBJan 13, 2021 · US District Court Judge Robert E. Weir sentenced Iossifov, 53, formerly of Bulgaria, for conspiracy to commit a Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act (RICO) offence and conspiracy to commit money laundering. According to trial evidence, Iossifov owned and managed RG Coins, a cryptocurrency …
Poll finds Bulgarians evenly divided on Nato membership, as …
WEBJun 4, 2022 · The poll found that support in Bulgaria for Nato membership had dropped in the past year. In 2021, in a hypothetical referendum, 54 per cent of Bulgarians would have voted to remain in Nato and 25 per cent to leave. Support for Nato in Bulgaria was lowest among nine Central and Eastern European countries polled – the others being the Czech ...