There are an estimated 6 million Bulgarians and over, including children from mixed marriages, living outside Bulgaria, said in an interview for Trud newspaper Petar Haralampiev, chair of the State Agency for Bulgarians Abroad.
There are Bulgarian communities in Northern Greece, in Albania there are 150,000 - 500,000 people of Bulgarian origin, in Kosovo 60,000 – 200,000, in Romania 50,000 – 200,000, in Ukraine – 210,000 people officially registered as being Bulgarian during the 2002 census. There are more than 200,000 Bulgarians in Chicago, USA, and the environs. According to unofficial data from different official Bulgarian sources, 2.3 – 3 million people have left Bulgaria in the post-1989 period alone. The other group are Bulgarians from what are known as the “traditional migrant communities”, people who emigrated in the first half of the 20th century. There are around 50,000 people of Bulgarian descent in Argentina, for example, who fall into this group.
According to official Eurostat data, the sum of data from 2011 indicate there are 1, 023,248 people born in Bulgaria living around the world, Trud writes.
Bulgaria’s support for Ukraine in the context of the ongoing Russian aggression was the focus of a meeting between caretaker Minister of Foreign Affairs Ivan Kondov and Ukrainian Ambassador to Bulgaria Olesya Ilashchuk, the Ministry of Foreign..
Following the checks conducted by the State Agency for National Security (SANS), in cooperation with the National Revenue Agency, the Ministry of Interior, and the National Customs Agency, it has been established incontrovertibly that no communication..
After a long journey from the capital Sanaa, to the port city of Hodeidah, I managed to meet with the two Bulgarians in Yemen, said MEP Elena Yoncheva. They met outside the hijacked ship Galaxy Leader, in a room chosen by the Houthis for security..
MEP Elena Yoncheva is in the city of Sanaa, Yemen, aiming to reach the port city of Hodeidah on the Red Sea. There lies the hijacked ship Galaxy Leader,..
In response to media reports that a company registered in Bulgaria supplied pagers to the Lebanese organization Hezbollah, which were subsequently..
The Council of Ministers has granted the Kozloduy Nuclear Power Plant a derogation from the European regulation on restrictive measures in light of..
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