The Latest Breaking News from Bulgaria

The FBI has increased the bounty on missing CryptoQueen Dr Ruja Ignatova to $5 million. Bulgaria-born German national Ignatova went missing in 2017 after a federal warrant was issued for her arrest. She is accused of defrauding crypto-investors out of more than $4 billion.

Bulgaria’s Orthodox Church has elected a bishop considered to be pro-Russian as its new leader in a vote that reflected the divisions in the church and wider society since Russia invaded Ukraine more than two years ago

Former Prime Minister Boyko Borissov has invited his political opponents to hold talks on forming a new government

Bulgaria’s sixth vote in three years delivers yet another fragmented parliament.

Bulgaria’s center-right GERB party led by former Prime Minister Boyko Borissov has received most votes in the country’s parliamentary election but will need at least two partners to form a governing coalition

The snap vote, the sixth in three years, has been triggered by the collapse of a coalition government in March.

Bulgarians head to the polls on Sunday for a sixth time in three years, with hopes for change expected to be quashed in the Balkan country.

The remains of Ferdinand Saxe-Coburg-Gotha, the first king of Bulgaria following five centuries of Ottoman rule, were repatriated from Germany Wednesday to be interred in a family mausoleum, 76 years after his death.

Religious education is commonplace in public schools across Europe, and is obligatory in many. In some European countries such as Slovakia, religious bodies are responsible for religious education curricula, and in Bulgaria religious schools follow their own curricula for religious education, which can include teachings that condemn LGBTQIA+ identities. This…