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Representatives of several political parties and public organizations paid tribute this week to the victims of the so-called Revival Process, marking the 41st anniversary of the December events linked to resistance against the forced assimilation of Bulgaria’s Muslim minority during the communist period.

Yes, Bulgaria party Co-Chairs Bozhidar Bozhanov and Ivaylo Mirchev paid tribute Friday at the Turkan fountain (South Bulgaria) to the victims of the so-called "Revival Process", which aimed to assimilate the country's Muslim minority by forcing 720,000 - 820,000 ethnic Turks and 180,000-250, 000 Muslim Roma to adopt Slavic names. In a Facebook post, Bozhanov stated that the two paid tribute to the dignity and pain of Bulgarians of Turkish origin who fought for freedom and democracy.

The National Institute of Meteorology and Hydrology (NIMH) has issued a warning for heavy snowfall Thursday, December 25. Yellow and orange code weather alerts will be in force, according to data published on the official NIMH website.

Christmas Day will be cloudy with widespread precipitation: snow in western and northern Bulgaria, and rain in the Upper Thracian Plain and along the Black Sea coast.

Deposits held by households in the Bulgarian banking system have surpassed the BGN 100 billion mark. At the end of November 2025, deposits of households and household-serving non-profit institutions were BGN 100.881 billion (45.9% of GDP),

The Energy and Water Regulatory Commission has approved higher prices of water for most of the country’s regions starting from January 1 2026, The decision was made at a closed meeting on Monday and published on the Commission’s website. Water will

President Rumen Radev and the leadership of the Association of Banks in Bulgaria discussed here on Monday the banking sector's readiness for the introduction of the euro as of January 1, 2026, the President’s press secretariat said. Vice President Iliana Iotova also took part in the meeting.

In 2024, liabilities of Bulgarian state-owned enterprises under EU Directive 2011/85 were 8.80% of the country's gross domestic product (GDP), the National Statistical Institute (NSI) wrote on its website on Monday. Of these, liabilities of

Bulgarian Patriarch and Sofia Metropolitan Daniil and Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew will concelebrate a solemn Divine Liturgy at the Church of St George the Great Martyr in Istanbul’s Fener borough. The service will mark the start of the second

Borislav Aleksandrov, the first Bulgarian geodesist to set foot on Antarctica and Head of the Geodesy and Geoinformatics Department at the University of Architecture, Civil Engineering and Geodesy (UACEG), contributed to the construction of the

American guitarist Marc Ribot will give a solo concert on February 4 in Sofia at Prostranstvo 108, the concert venue at 108 G. S. Rakovski Street, the organizers from Alarma Punk Jazz said. In 2025, the musician released the album Map of a Blue

An open-air gala featuring opera star Sonya Yoncheva will return to Sofia on August 25 and 27, 2026, her team announced Monday. The Sofia Gala has become a recognized event internationally. Following its success in 2025 and Yoncheva’s subsequent

The aim is to enable citizens to regularize their ownership of the buildings they use for residential or commercial purposes, thereby overcoming the problem of illegal construction. The submission of applications will continue until February 8, 2026.

The leader of Turkiye's main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP), Ozgur Ozel, has praised the economies of neighbouring Bulgaria and Greece while sharply criticizing Turkiye’s economic situation, the Ihlas News Agency reported.

Romanian MEP and leader of the far-right SOS Romania party Diana Sosoaca called on her colleagues from the Alliance for the Union of Romanians (AUR) and the Party of Young People (POT) to unite.

Turkish authorities at the Gurbulak customs checkpoint on the Iranian border, near the town of Dogubayazit in Eastern Turkiye, seized 163.9 kilograms of heroin that was being smuggled through the country en route to Bulgaria.