Bulgaria’s ambassador in Moscow, Atanas Krastin, was summoned to the Russian Foreign Ministry on December 28 to be handed a note concerning the declaration of Bulgaria’s deputy military attache in the Russian capital as persona non grata, the Russian ministry said. Russia’s Foreign Ministry said in a media statement that Read more
Joe Biden‘s election is generating anxiety in Moscow that Russia‘s global ambitions will be more directly challenged. While President Trump focused on withdrawing American forces from Europe and avoiding embroilment in any new conflicts, the Kremlin fears that President Biden will reengage in disputed regions in pursuit of Western integration. The Read more
Four people have been arrested for drug trafficking in Plovdiv. This was announced at a briefing of the Regional Prosecutor‘s Office in the city, Nova TV reported. Thanks to the police operation the, a drug smuggling network from Western Europe to Turkey was broken up: 115 kg of ecstasy worth BGN 3.5 Read more
Dozens of West Point cadets have cheated in one of the biggest exam scandals to hit the elite US military academy in decades, officials say. More than 70 students were accused of breaking West Point‘s Cadet Honor Code in a math test while studying remotely because of the coronavirus pandemic. Most of the cadets have admitted Read more
Prosecutor General Ivan Geshev informed Minister of Foreign Affairs Ekaterina Zaharieva of intelligence-gathering activities by a Russian diplomat on the territory of Bulgaria. The prosecutor’s office had evidence to prove it, the public prosecutor’s office said. After the signal of the State Agency for National Security the Specialized Prosecutor’s Office started pre-trial Read more
Bulgaria’s Defence Minister Krassimir Karakachanov signed on December 8 a contract worth 49.9 million leva (about 25.5 million euro) with Bulgarian firm Samel-90 for the supply of 98 armoured vehicles of 10 different types for the country’s special forces, a Defence Ministry statement said. The contract is to be carried Read more
Saab said on December 8 that it had signed a contract with German shipbuilding company Lürssen and received an order to provide and integrate the combat system for the Bulgarian Navy’s new Multipurpose Modular Patrol Vessels, MMPV. Lürssen is the prime contractor to the Bulgarian Ministry of Defence, following the signing Read more
United States Vice President-elect Kamala Harris has named Nancy McEldowney, a former US ambassador to Bulgaria, as her national security adviser. McEldowney served for over 30 years in the US Foreign Service, including as ambassador to Bulgaria, from August 2008 to July 2009, and as Chargé d’Affaires and Deputy Chief Read more