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- Seven Dead after Hellish Crash in Bulgaria
Seven people are reported dead after a bus with Serbian license plates collided with a Turkish van near the Bulgarian town of Svilengrad, not far from the Bulgarian-Turkish border on Saturday. All of the dead were passengers in the van that reportedly
- GERB Vows to Remove Dual Citizenship in Bulgaria
Remove Dual Citizenship in Boyko Borisov, leader of the GERB party that is expected to have the biggest result on Sunday?s parliamentary elections in , has said Friday that one of his government?s first jobs would be to remove dual citizenship. Once in
- Seven Turkish citizens die in traffic accident in Bulgaria
Sofia - Seven Turkish citizens, including a 12-year-old child, died on Saturday in a traffic accident near the south-eastern Bulgarian town of Svilengrad, the Interior Ministry reported. The victims, who were traveling via minibus from Germany to Turkey,
- Seven Turks die in bus crash in Bulgaria
SOFIA, July 4 (Reuters) - Seven Turks, including a child, died on Saturday when their minibus crashed into a Serbian-owned bus in southern Bulgaria, police said. The driver of the bus was injured in the accident near the town of Svilengrad on the
- Bulgarians head to polls amid vote-buying allegations
Bulgarians head to the polls on Sunday to vote in the country's first parliamentary election since joining the EU. The ruling Socialist Party is predicted to do badly, and corruption allegations are largely to blame.
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Having fought on the losing side in both World Wars, Bulgaria fell within the Soviet sphere of influence and became a Peoples Republic in 1946. Communist domination ended in 1991 with the dissolution of the USSR, and Bulgaria began the contentious process of moving toward political democracy and a market economy while combating inflation, unemployment, corruption, and crime. Today, reforms and democratization keep Bulgaria on a path toward eventual integration into the EU and NATO.
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