Police violence during the anti-government protests last summer is among the reasons behind the dismissal of the Chief Secretary of Bulgaria’s Interior Ministry, Chief Commissioner Ivaylo Ivanov, reads a statement on the Council of Ministers' website.
According to the statement, the caretaker cabinet adopted a decision proposing to President Rumen Radev to issue a decree terminating the powers of Ivaylo Ivanov due to the violation of fundamental working principles at the Interior Ministry. Tension between law enforcement authorities and demonstrators escalated during the protest on September 2 last year. As a result, peaceful protesters and journalists were injured.
Despite the bad weather, dozens of children and their parents took part in an initiative for making toys for the Christmas decoration of the capital city. At the initiative of Sofia municipality, a workshop was put up in the square in front of..
The Democrats for a Strong Bulgaria (DSB) are to nominate the party’s leader Atanas Atanasov for president of the 51 st National Assembly. According to BNR sources, the decision was made by the party’s national leadership and will be put to..
During the regional GERB youth academy in Targovishte, GERB leader Boyko Borissov stated that GERB would not sign the declaration of We Continue the Change/Democratic Bulgaria (PP/DB) for a cordon sanitaire around Delyan Peevski. PP/DB calls..
The financial effect of our country's accession to Schengen by land will amount to BGN 1.63 billion (EUR 833.4 million) per year, according to a study..
The Ministry of Transport and Communications supports the idea of naming Sofia Airport after Vasil Levski– the most undisputed figure in Bulgarian..
On Monday, the weather will continue cloudy in most parts of the country with rain, more significant in the southeastern regions. Light snow will fall..
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