Bulgaria

Bulgaria’s State Agency for National Security (DANS) is probing within its authority revelations of the whistle-blowing site WikiLeaks that former Chief of General Staff, Nikola Kolev, has provided valuable information …

by Alexandre Lévy, Western Balkans Printed in Le Monde 03 July 2011 edition Since the beginning of the Greek crisis, the issue of bank stability and in particular of the bank …

On October 26, 2005, on the so-called “government route” on “Bulgaria” boulevard in Sofia, banker Emil Kuylev was gunned down. Immediately after the murder, the top people in the country …

Bulgarian PM Boyko Borisov refuted yesterday the Wikileaks revelations about his past ties to organized crime, metamphetamines traffic and his dependence from a shady businessman from Lukoil. “I don’t read Wikileaks” – …

Borissov described himself as “Bulgaria’s biggest asset” “We must continue to walk a fine line between being used by Borisov’s publicity machine and alienating an exceptionally popular and seemingly pro-American …

Bulgaria held European elections in June 2009, followed by the national parliament elections in July. The main political players are analysed by the american ambassador in Sofia Nancy McEldowney in …

Former Interior Minister of Bulgaria (2005-2008), Rumen Petkov is presented as a “hard working, hard drinking”, controversial figure, related to political corruption and russian intelligence in a WikiLeaks diplomatic cable …

Boyko Borisov complained about Putin to the Americans; RWE had been “sabotaged” to give up on Belene NPP project. Bulgarians “risk being cold” this winter if the government did not …