“Koprivshtitsa does not belong to a handful of municipal councilors. Koprivshtitsa belongs to Bulgaria, Koprivshtitsa is Bulgaria,” said President Rumen Radev, commenting on the decision by the Koprivshtitsa municipal council to have the town’s status of an architectural and historical reserve abolished.
“I call on all people this depends on, to immediately revise or halt the municipal council decision for altering the status of the museum-town,” the Bulgarian head of state wrote in his Facebook profile. In his words, any compromise in this instance is an attack on the national and cultural heritage of Bulgaria.
The two North Macedonian citizens who attacked and beat Macedonian Bulgarian Hristijan Pendikov in Ohrid received sentences of 8 months in prison. The Ohrid court rejected the aggravating circumstance that the motive for the crime..
Following consultations between Bulgarian institutions and UNESCO, the Bureau of the World Heritage Committee has agreed to organize the 47th session of the Committee at the UNESCO headquarters in Paris from July 6 to 16. This was..
In a telephone conversation, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and Bulgarian Prime Minister Rosen Zhelyazkov have discussed ways to establish a just and lasting peace in Ukraine. "I had a meaningful conversation with..
In light of the EU's recently announced plan to rearm Europe, President Rumen Radev told journalists that he had always advocated a more responsible..
A protest under the slogan "Feminism, not Militarism" started this afternoon in front of the Court House in Sofia . "On March 8 we are not celebrating. On..
Nearly 19% of over 800 working Bulgarians surveyed have been victims of sexual harassment at their workplace , almost 90% of the victims are women. Among..
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