Bulgaria has been added to Russia‘s “blacklist” of unfriendly countries. As of yesterday morning, the country has been placed on the list of potential enemies, according to the main Russian federal TV channel “Rossiya 1”. “As far as friends are concerned, who the friends are we do not know, but this morning Read more…
The prosecutor’s office compared four cases of blasts in ammunition depots in Bulgaria where similarity in incidents was noted. They’ve happened in the last 10 years, spokesperson of the Prosecutor General, Siyka Mileva, told a briefing on Wednesday. The first incident is from November 12, 2011 – explosion in a warehouse of Read more…
MPs of the Democratic Bulgaria coalition have asked Prime Minister Boyko Borissov if Bulgarian special services have intelligence on whether foreign special services were involved in explosions in military factories in Bulgaria in the last 10 years. The question was provoked by revelations of the Czech authorities that agents of Read more…
The BBC has been lively commenting on the Bulgarian trace in the explosion of ammunition depots in the Czech Republic in 2014. The media reported that one of the people who stored in Vrbetica ammunitions that were meant for Ukraine was the Bulgarian arms dealer Emilian Gebrev, who six months after the explosion Read more…
Former Secretary of Defense Mark Esper says the United States should deploy more troops along the Black Sea in Bulgaria and Romania to deter potential aggression from Russia as tensions between Moscow and Washington heat up. Esper, now a fellow at the McCain Institute for International Leadership at Arizona State University, said “I think we need Read more…
CNN has broadcast a report on the latest spy affair in Bulgaria, which resulted in two Russian diplomats being expelled from the country, BGNES reported. Until 1989, Bulgaria was one of the most loyal members of the USSR-led Warsaw Pact. According to Western analysts, now as a member of NATO and the European Union, Read more…
A total of 87 candidate Members of Parliament in Bulgaria’s April 4 2021 elections worked for the country’s communist-era secret service State Security, either as staff members, agents or collaborators, according to a list published by the Dossier Commission on March 23. The Dossier Commission is the official body empowered Read more…
Bulgaria’s Foreign Ministry has notified the Russian embassy in Sofia that it has declared two Russian diplomats persona non grata and given them 72 hours to leave the country, Foreign Minister Ekaterina Zaharieva said on Twitter on March 22. Earlier, Bulgaria’s Prosecutor-General Ivan Geshev sent a letter to Zaharieva Read more…
“It’s the first time that an espionage ring has been busted in Bulgaria. We have evidence gathered through special intelligence tools. Their criminal activity endangers our national security,” stated spokesperson for the Prosecutor General Siyka Mileva in connection with the detained servicemen who participated in an espionage ring as quoted by BGNES We received Read more…