Day in 3 news: Radev’s cabinet blocks Bulgaria-Greece gas link; Petkov criticizes the caretaker gov’t’s actions; Russia expels 14 Bulgarian diplomats

Day in 3 news: New caretaker cabinet named; Fire in ammunition warehouse; Customs Agency with record revenues for half year

The week: A bridge worth paying for, Aurubis is at the top again and out with the hawks, in with the doves

Day in 3 news: BSP to return third mandate unfulfilled; Bulgargaz proposes 54% hike in natgas price for August, Specialized Prosecution closes probe of MP Peevski under the Magnitsky Act

Day in 3 news: List of politicians’ foreign estates remains secret; Red zones of new Covid cases rise to 9; Road construction firms to block 20 key junctures in protest on Wednesday

Bulgaria: further away from Russia’s claws, but still close enough

An unprecedented diplomatic row between Russia and Bulgaria as the latter plunged into a political crisis

Sofia warns Skopje after anti-Bulgarian protests; President Radev: best time for elections is October; Bulgarians get news mostly from TV and social media

The week: Petkov’s tough choice, 70 (more or less) Russian diplomats & budget debacle

Day in 3 news: 70 Russian diplomats expelled, No excise for LPG and methane, 0% tax on flour

Illegal road repairs worth billions

A cross-ministerial probe found that much of the money paid for roadworks and maintenance has been illegally allocated

Gov’t teeters on brink after six stormy months

With TISP pledging to support GERB’s vote of no-confidence next week and the ruling coalition at least six MPs short of keeping its majority, Petkov’s cabinet looks terminal

How a small plane flew over 7 countries and landed in Bulgaria without permission

The mystery of the phantom aircraft is a stress test for Bulgarian national security - which the state is so far failing

The IGB project: A game-changer on the Eastern European gas market

The link with Greece is the first project that will really reduce Bulgaria’s dependence on Russian gas

The week: The private border of Bulgaria and the EU, are we still on track for the euro and a stellar year for banks (so far)

K Insights 03/06: what happened with the refugees

Bulgaria’s anti-inflation measures: chaos and populism

The government will spend 2 billion levs on populist measures without targeting the most vulnerable groups in society

Where are the Ukrainian refugees heading to?

Bulgaria faces the uphill task of having to find accommodation for 60,000 refugees currently in seaside hotels whose owners want to kick off their summer holiday season. Integrating them in society and in the labor market are now pressing priorities

The day in 3 news: Resettling of Ukrainians starts with a trickle, Producer price index reaches 40% in April, Minimum wage will be 800 BGN from 2023: Social Policy Minister

Does Bulgaria really have 213,000 bitcoins?

Five years after the first information that the Bulgarian state had seized crypto worth billions of dollars, inside sources and other information from the new cabinet reveal that there were never any bitcoins at all

They know why you didn’t buy

Bulgarian deep data analysis SessionStack raised 750 thousand euro from BrightCap VC and Telerik co-founder Boyko Yaramov

Is Bulgaria the weak link in Europe’s fight against Russian disinformation?

Pro-Kremlin propaganda has been flooding the country for years, fracturing the social fabric and offering a fruitful environment for the spread of disinformation