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.
Bulgaria has granted asylum to Iranian citizen Alireza Beigi, who says he was given a death sentence in absentia in his homeland for renouncing Islam in favor of Christianity.
Bulgaria has issued a European arrest warrant for six Russian citizens accused of involvement in the destruction of arms factories and warehouses between 2011 and 2020, the prosecutor's office said.
Protestors gathered in the central Bulgarian city of Plovdiv on January 17 after news emerged of local politicians seeking to dismantle a hilltop monument to the Soviet Red Army known as "Alyosha."
Romania and Bulgaria have reached an agreement with Austria to join Europe's open-borders Schengen Area by air and sea from March 2024, with talks set to continue next year about land borders.
Hungary on December 16 threatened to veto Bulgaria’s entry into the passport-free Schengen zone unless it abolishes the transit fee for Russian gas.
A longtime host for Bulgarian National Radio on December 16 accused the national broadcaster of preventing the airing of a previously recorded interview with the Russian ambassador to that country amid escalating tensions over Russia's invasion of Ukraine and the dismantling of a towering Red Army monument in Sofia.
Reaction was mixed on the streets of the Bulgarian capital, Sofia, as a contentious monument to the Red Army was cut into pieces this week.
The Bulgarian parliament on December 8 voted overwhelmingly to provide surplus air-defense missiles to Ukraine.
LUKoil, Russia's largest private oil company, says it is reviewing its business strategy in Bulgaria and is not ruling out selling its entire operation in the Balkan EU and NATO member.
Bulgarian President Rumen Radev has vetoed the country's plans to send 100 surplus armored personnel carriers (APCs) to Ukraine, sending the arrangement back to parliament for reconsideration.
Bulgaria's Foreign Ministry says it has given permission to Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov's plane to cross its airspace en route to North Macedonia's capital, Skopje, where he is to attend a November 29-December 1 meeting of the Council of Ministers of the OSCE.
For years, he was mostly known as an oligarch and media mogul, who rarely appeared in public and is sanctioned by the U.S. for his "extensive role in corruption in Bulgaria." But now, Delyan Peevski is coming out of the shadows and is increasingly a more influential presence.
A transgender woman is staging a hunger strike outside a courthouse in the Bulgarian capital, Sofia, after the country's highest appeals court ruled in February that Bulgarian law "does not envisage" legal changes to someone's gender.
A demonstration by thousands of Bulgarian football fans in Sofia on November 16 to demand the resignation of the president of the Bulgarian Football Union (BFS) and its leadership turned violent, resulting in injuries and arrests.
Samar Chinino's first thought when war broke out in her home in Gaza on October 7 was to get her child away from the window. Her experience in past conflicts helped her to keep her family safe until they could get out, through Egypt. They made it to Bulgaria, where Chinino was born. Now the Palestinian-Bulgarian mother finds herself making do in a safe but unexpected new home, Sofia.
Vassil Terziev, the candidate of the reformist pro-Western coalition We Continue the Change/Democratic Bulgaria has won a crucial runoff mayoral race in the capital, Sofia, almost-complete results showed early on November 6.
Bulgarian voters are electing hundreds of mayors and other local posts in November 5 runoffs. In the capital, Sofia, entrepreneur Vasil Terziev is facing Vanya Grigorova, a trade-union activist with a record of pro-Kremlin statements.
Initial exit polls in Bulgaria show that reformist pro-Western coalition We Continue the Change/Democratic Bulgaria is leading in the crucial mayoral race in the capital, Sofia, although former Prime Minister Boyko Borisov's center-right GERB party appears to be performing solidly elsewhere.
The first Bulgarian citizens evacuated from Gaza arrived in Sofia on November 3. A Palestinian-Bulgarian man, Ala el-Sharafi, came with his wife, Sali, and their daughter Siyka. They were welcomed by Ala's mother, also named Siyka.
The first Bulgarian citizens to escape Gaza -- a family of three -- have arrived in Sofia.
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