The Bulgarian National Assembly has held a closed sitting with outgoing Prime Minister Kiril Petkov and the heads of the specialized security services in connection with the expulsion of 70 Russian diplomats from Bulgaria. Petkov..
The visit to Serbia by Russia’s Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov on 6 and 7 June has been cancelled after Bulgaria, North Macedonia and Montenegro refused to open their airspace to his airplane. Russia’s ambassador to Bulgaria Eleonora Mitrofanova..
On May 9 - the Day of Europe and Victory Day (commemorating the Soviet Union's victory over Nazi Germany in World War II), Bulgarian citizens and dignitaries laid wreaths and flowers at the memorials of the Bulgarian and Soviet soldiers who died..
Leaders of "Stand up, BG!” movement and former MPs Arman Babikyan and Nikolai Hadzhigenov were arrested for 24 hours , after they threw red paint at the sign of the Russian embassy in Sofia. They commented that by this act they expressed..
In a parliamentary declaration, the co-ruling Democratic Bulgaria formation has demanded that Russian Ambassador to Bulgaria Eleonora Mitrofanova be declared a persona non grata. The political formtation believes that Mitrofanova's behaviour is in..
Bulgaria’s ambassador to Moscow will be summoned back to Sofia for consultations . In diplomatic language, this means that the other side should do the same, Prime Minister Kiril Petkov said in Brussels before the European Council meeting kicked off...
A diplomatic response will probably follow the statement made by Russia’s ambassador to this country Eleonora Mitrofanova who said, in an interview with a Russian TV channel, that the Bulgarian people does not support the rhetoric and the actions of..
Bulgaria's Prime Minister Kiril Petkov invited the Ambassador of Russia to Sofia Eleonora Mitrofanova for a conversation today , the government's press service reports. The Prime Minister called on the first Russian diplomat to adhere to the generally..
Bulgaria's Foreign Ministry has declared two Russian diplomats accredited to Bulgaria personae non gratae and has given them 48 hours to leave the country , said at a briefing the director of the press centre of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs Mitko..
Eleonora Mitrofanova, Ambassador of the Russian Federation has been summoned to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs over the Russian espionage scandal but has refused and will send a deputy, Lena Borislavova, head of the political cabinet of PM Kiril..