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Nov 8, 2024 | 
balkaninsight.com | Svetoslav D. Todorov
The premiere of a play by Bernard Shaw directed by John Malkovich at Sofia’s National Theatre was boycotted by several hundred nationalists on Thursday and demonstrations are expected to continue on Friday around the second performance.
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Nov 7, 2024 | 
balkaninsight.com | Svetoslav D. Todorov
Bulgarian journalist Venelina Popova, from the investigative online media outlet Za istinata (For the Truth), has received a series of threats from Mayor Nikolay Tonev, the website and the Association of European Journalists – Bulgaria said on Thursday. The mayor of the small town of Galabovo reportedly sent threats through Viber to Popova over her critical coverage of the October 27 elections, alleging electoral fraud in his region.
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Nov 5, 2024 | 
balkaninsight.com | Svetoslav D. Todorov
A majority of Bulgaria’s leading parties are calling for a recount of the October snap elections over concerns that ballot-rigging manipulated the result. The centre-right GERB party won with 26.3 per cent of votes cast. The election saw the break-up of the mainly ethnic Turkish Movement for Rights and Freedoms into two new rival factions.
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Oct 28, 2024 | 
balkaninsight.com | Svetoslav D. Todorov
Bulgaria’s centre-right GERB party, running alongside United Democratic Forces, has come first in the country’s seventh general election in three years, as nine parties made it into the 240-member parliament. On Monday morning, with 99 per cent of votes counted, GERB was leading with 26.4 per cent, well ahead of the main pro-EU opposition, We Continue the Change / Democratic Bulgaria, on 14.3 per cent and the pro-Russian far-right Revival on 13.4 per cent.
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Oct 25, 2024 | 
balkaninsight.com | Svetoslav D. Todorov
Former Prime Minister Boyko Borissov’s centre-right GERB party is expected to come first in Sunday’s elections, the latest round of a near-continuous election cycle that has seen seven general elections in just three years. On Friday, Trend agency published a survey which put GERB on 24.9 per cent of the vote, followed by the formerly marginal pro-Russian party Revival, on 15.2 per cent. The pro-EU We Continue the Change/Democratic Bulgaria bloc came third.
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Oct 24, 2024 | 
balkaninsight.com | Svetoslav D. Todorov
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Oct 17, 2024 | 
balkaninsight.com | Svetoslav D. Todorov
Belarusian opposition activist Barys Barysau told BIRN in an interview in Sofia that he fears deportation from Bulgaria and persecution by Alexander Lukashenko’s regime after Bulgaria’s State Agency for Refugees rejected his asylum application. “A closed investigation into my participation in the 2020 protests [in Belarus] will be immediate; my social media activity and the fact that I had contacts with other activists abroad will be also problematic factors,” Barysau said.
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Sep 27, 2024 | 
balkaninsight.com | Svetoslav D. Todorov
Revival, Bulgaria’s leading pro-Russian far-right party, could take second place in parliamentary elections due on October 27, suggested pre-election opinion polls that were published on Friday.
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Sep 25, 2024 | 
balkaninsight.com | Svetoslav D. Todorov
A Belarusian activist fears deportation from Bulgaria after his refugee asylum application was rejected, and may take his case to the European Court of Human Rights, ECHR while also re-applying, his representatives told BIRN. Andriy, who is married to Russian journalist and opposition activist Alexei Bachinsky – who was granted asylum on April 25 – declines to divulge his last name over fears that this might have consequences for relatives back home in Belarus.
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Sep 17, 2024 | 
balkaninsight.com | Svetoslav D. Todorov
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