Gypsies Focus of Controversy in Bulgaria
638290
The seven forest rangers were patrolling their region south of Sofia when they came across a group of Gypsies they suspected of illegal logging. A verbal exchange quickly turned violent &#151; and then, police say, the Gypsies went after the rangers with metal clubs.
38644
POSTOJNA, Slovenia  - Elka Strojan and her 30-strong Roma Gypsy family, forced to swap a house for three rooms in a former army barracks, highlight the precarious existence in the Balkans of Europe's largest minority.
333322
Politics: 1 September 2004, Wednesday. Bulgaria will open a general consulate in Chicago, where the largest Bulgarian community abroad, some 50 000 people, reside.
36230
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 ...
650982
Politics: 7 October 2004, Thursday. A Bulgarian culture and information center will be opened in Paris by the prime minister, who is currently on a visit in the French capital.
714643
Politics: 18 November 2004, Thursday. Bulgaria's President Georgi Parvanov is to meet Thursday members of the Bulgarian community in Hungary within his official visit to the country.
732813
Politics: 30 September 2004, Thursday. Bulgarian Balkancar Holding employees gathered at the Alexander Nevski Square in Sofia, near the Parliament, to protest for their unpaid salaries.
110684
Secret police files from Bulgaria's communist past reportedly list President Georgi Parvanov as a collaborator.
123589
About 75% of Bulgarians want their country to join the European Union according to a poll conducted by the Sociology Institute of the Bulgarian Academy of Science published Wednesday.
742430
Politics: 25 September 2004, Saturday. Bulgarians, living and working in UK, circulated an open latter claiming that all Bulgarian candidates for UK business visas are subjected to discrimination.
473240
Politics: 10 December 2004, Friday. About 700,000 Bulgarians have emigrated from the country for the period 1985-2001, accordinh to data of the National Statistical Institute (NSI). The last two population ...
372314
Prime Minister Ferenc Gyurcsany's  blunt admission he lied to win an election has sparked outrage,  riots and a race to claim a website over his comments.
113436
Elka Strojan and her  30-strong Roma Gypsy family, forced to swap a house for three  rooms in a former army barracks, highlight the precarious  existence in the Balkans of Europe's largest minority.
292166
Bulgaria pressed Wednesday for the repatriation of five of its nurses and a Palestinian doctor jailed in Libya after their death sentences were commuted to life in prison.
613027
Politics: 3 September 2004, Friday. The fate of the five Bulgarian nurses sentenced to death in Libya will be one of the topics discussed by foreign ministers from the EU member and candidate countries.
653916
In the last decade, Bulgaria has begun to acknowledge domestic violence as a major problem.
665388
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 ...