Eastern Bulgaria Struggles to Return to Normal Life ... read
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Politics: 6 February 2005, Sunday. After three days tightly embraced by blizzards, stormy winds and freezing temperatures, the residents of sea capital Varna started to return slowly to normal life with streets ...
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Politics: 5 February 2005, Saturday. Winter storms took the life of an elderly woman and forced authorities in Bulgaria to declare a state of emergency in 35 municipalities and nine districts to date.
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Politics: 30 December 2004, Thursday. Most of the Bulgarian tourists who are on a holiday trip to various parts of South East Asia want to return preliminarily, but find no cooperation from Bulgarian consular ...
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Bulgaria in Brief: 6 September 2004, Monday. Hundreds of Bulgarians have expressed their condolences over the hostage tragedy in Beslan, North Ossetia, which claimed the lives of hundreds of victims, mostly ...
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More than 10,000 people protested in the streets of Bulgaria&#039;s capital Tuesday to demand changes in the government&#039;s economic and social policy, which they blame for the country&#039;s rising cost of living.
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Politics: 4 January 2005, Tuesday. The Bulgarian Kalotina Checkpoint at the Serbian border is in a completely different condition than it used to be, said Tuesday the Sofia District Governor Olimpi Katev.
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Top news: 28 September 2004, Tuesday. Envoys of Europe's big business recommended Tuesday for Bulgaria to speed up its reforms en route to European Union membership.
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Bulgaria and Romania received an almost grudging green light to join next January.
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Formerly communist Bulgaria, now knocking at the door of the EU, keeps stumbling over a complex and allegedly corrupt judicial system, while criminal circles in the country engage in gangland score-settling killings.
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Bulgaria in Brief: 7 December 2004, Tuesday. Half of the Bulgarian people have water bills pending, an official was cited as saying on Tuesday.
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Politics: 12 January 2005, Wednesday. The last but one session of the 39th Bulgarian National Assembly will pass a number of laws, necessary for Bulgaria's European integration, the Prime Minister Simeon ...
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The rest of the world made a collective shudder on July 22 when Bulgaria decided to close 250 churches and 50 police raided a church in Sofia.
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Politics: 7 December 2004, Tuesday. The date on which Bulgaria is to sign the accession treaty might be posponed, according to the President Georgi Parvanov.
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In this poor Balkan country set to join the European Union in January, brazen slayings &#151; along with gang shootouts and car and apartment bombings &#151; have almost become part of the fabric of everyday life.
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Bulgaria in Brief: 30 January 2005, Sunday. Bulgaria's Silistra region declared an emergency situation as the heave snowfalls and the strong winds continued for nearly two days.
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The decaying Ottoman bridge on  Bosnia&#39;s River Drina at Visegrad is soon to be restored, but  the community whose life around it was chronicled in an epic  novel is unlikely to be the same again.
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One  night in 2003, on the wintry streets of Kosovo, a group of thugs stalked and beat Gramoz Prestreshi almost to death. Police in the war-scarred Balkan province laughed and called him names. The emergency room workers made him mop up his own blood. It was a sordid but hardly unusual episode in...