Bulgarian Attorney General Sotir Tsatsarov will be invited to a hearing on October 10 at the next session of the Interim Committee in Parliament, in order to examine the facts and circumstances over the interruption of BNR’s broadcasting of the Horizon central program on September 13 for 5 hours, as well as allegations of political pressure on BNR leadership and journalists.
This was decided by MPs at today's committee meeting. The Attorney General will provide details of the investigation and its results. After that, members of the Council for Electronic Media in Bulgaria, BNR Director General Svetoslav Kostov and radio journalists will be invited to hearings. The proposal to set up a temporary committee was made by the BSP.
Bulgaria’s Anti-Corruption Commission is investigating a large-scale property fraud and money laundering scheme connected to the 'Historical Park', which is associated with Ivelin Mihaylov, the leader of the Velichie party. Those arrested include the..
The ruling party and the opposition argued about the procedure for the Budget Committee meeting before the final vote on the 2006 budget . Assen Vassilev, chairman of the We Continue the Change party, attempted to block the committee’s extraordinary..
Employees in the agriculture and forestry sector staged a protest in front of the Parliament, demanding higher salaries for workers in departments that are secondary budget administrators. The protest was organized by the National Federation of..
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