SOFIA, Nov. 10 (bnn)- Some 15, 000 people rallied in front of the government headquarters in Sofia Wednesday to protest poverty and government-proposed social benefit cuts as Bulgaria marked the 15th anniversary of the collapse of communism....

SOFIA, Nov. 10 (bnn)- Some 15, 000 people rallied in front of the government headquarters in Sofia Wednesday to protest poverty and government-proposed social benefit cuts as Bulgaria marked the 15th anniversary of the collapse of communism. (On the slogan: "No to the lies.")...

SOFIA, Nov. 10 (bnn)- Some 15, 000 people rallied in front of the government headquarters in Sofia Wednesday to protest poverty and government-proposed social benefit cuts as Bulgaria marked the 15th anniversary of the collapse of communism....

SOFIA, Nov. 10 (bnn)- Some 15, 000 people rallied in front of the government headquarters in Sofia Wednesday to protest poverty and government-proposed social benefit cuts as Bulgaria marked the 15th anniversary of the collapse of communism....

SOFIA, Nov. 10 (bnn)- Some 15, 000 people rallied in front of the government headquarters in Sofia Wednesday to protest poverty and government-proposed social benefit cuts as Bulgaria marked the 15th anniversary of the collapse of communism....

PRAGUE, Nov. 9 (bnn)-Bulgarian Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Economy Lidia Shuleva (left) and Czech Minister of Industry and Trade Milan Urban address a news conference in Prague on Tuesday. (Photo by courtesy of Bulgarian Ministry of Economy). ...

SOFIA, Nov. 9 (bnn)--Foreign Minister Solomon Passy (second from left to right) presents a marble bust of Bulgarian national hero Petko Kiryakov (known as Kapitan Petko Voevoda) which will be placed in Rome on Dec. 2. In 1865 Kapitan Petko led a unit of 300 men he gathered with Italian revolutionary...

SOFIA, Nov. 5 (bnn)--France on Friday extradited to Bulgaria Vasil Kachikov, a Bulgarian national suspected of complicity in the assassination of one of his country's underworld bosses in Amsterdam about a year ago. Kachikov was escorted on a flight from Paris to Sofia and handed to local police at ...

SOFIA, Nov. 5 (bnn)--Workers of state tobacco monopoly Bulgartabac Holding AD rallied in front of Parliament in Sofia Friday to demand leva 4.5 million (some $3 million) in backpay and to protest a government plan to restructure and privatise the holding....

SOFIA, Nov. 4 (bnn)—Independent lawmaker Stela Bankova (left) argues with a policeman, who is guarding a rally of workers from state tobacco monopoly Bulgartabac Holding AD in front of Parliament in Sofia on Friday. The workers demand leva 4.5 million (some $3 million) in backpay and protested a gov...

SOFIA, Nov. 4 (bnn)--Prime Minister Simeon Saxe-Coburg Gotha visited Thursday the BNB printing plant, which celebrated its 10th anniversary. The BNB plant will merge with the printing facility of the Ministry of Finance in a step to cut costs....

SOFIA, Nov. 4 (bnn)--Prime Minister Simeon Saxe-Coburg Gotha (centre), Finance Minister Milen Velchev (left) and Bulgarian National Bank (BNB)Governor Ivan Iskrov (right) visited Thursday the BNB printing plant, which celebrated its 10th anniversary. The BNB plant will merge with the printing facili...

SOFIA, Nov. 1, (bnn)--Minister ot Finance Milen Velchev (left), Interior Ministry Chief Secretary Boyko Borisov (centre) and Chief of National Servive for Combat against Organised Crime Valentin Petrov brief reporters in Sofia Monday on joint body they set up ot co-orodinate struggle against value a...

SOFIA, Oct. 29 (bnn)--World Orthodox leader Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I (left) and Bulgarian Patriarch Maxim (right) meet at the Holy Synod office in Sofia Friday as Maxim celebrates his 90th birthday....

SOFIA, Oct. 29 (bnn)--World Orthodox leader Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I joined celebrations of Bulgarian Patriarch Maxim 90th anniversary in Sofia on Friday. ...