Bozho Kolov Archives

🇧🇬 Bulgaria Monthly Digest: billionaire charged and prosecutor general on the offensive

February 21, 2020

Bozho Kolov recounts the latest news from Bulgaria, Jan-Feb 2020.

🇧🇬 Bulgaria Monthly Digest: water crisis and Turkstream launch

January 27, 2020

– On December 21st, a state of emergency was declared in Pernik, a mining town in Western Bulgaria about 25 km away from Sofia. Water restrictions had been imposed there in mid-November and [...]

🇧🇬 Bulgaria Monthly Digest: Prime Minister Boyko Borissov visits Washington, and the country is struck by protests

December 20, 2019

– On November 25th Deputy Director of the National Police Office Blagorodna Makeva announced that in 2018, more than 31 000 reports of domestic violence had been received by the police in [...]

🇧🇬 Bulgaria Monthly Digest: Eu Parliament Election Confirms Balance of Power and Vice-President of Ruling Party Resigns

June 23, 2019

– The results of the European Parliament (EP) elections on May 26th in Bulgaria reconfirmed the balance of power in the National Assembly. The ruling Citizens for European Development of [...]

🇧🇬 Bulgaria Monthly Digest: Fresh Report Show Decrease in Freedom of Speech and Pope Francis Visits Bulgaria

May 24, 2019

– According to a report released on April 30th by the Bulgarian National Statistical Institute, 22% of the country’s population live under the poverty threshold. Roughly 70% of Roma in [...]

🇧🇬 Bulgaria Monthly Digest: real estate scandal, and the far-right gathers

April 26, 2019

– On March 21st , for the second time in one month, doctors, nurses, other healthcare providers, and citizens protested against low pay and poor working conditions in the public healthcare sector [...]