President Rumen Radev, US ambassador to Bulgaria Herro Mustafa, Defence Minister Georgi Panayotov and Chief of Defence Admiral Emil Eftimov observed the military exercise Strike Back 21 at Koren training ground near Haskovo.
800 Bulgarian troops with 210 units of military equipment, Su-25 aircraft Mi-24 and AH-Apache helicopters, as well as a tactical combat group from Greece and a light infantry platoon from Romania played out a “mechanized battalion offensive”. The aim of the Strike Back 21 maneuvers is to enhance the interoperability and training of the formations for defensive and offensive action in multinational format, the Ministry of Defence has announced.
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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