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March 2025

  • Arda Kardzhali players pay tribute to the club’s former player Petko Ganchev, who is very much alive, before the league game against Levski Sofia on Sunday

    Bulgarian footballer honoured with minute’s silence … despite not being dead

  • Undated Metropolitan police handout photo of Orlin Roussev

    Today in Focus

    A spy ring – and a love triangle – podcast

  • Grozev identified the FSB poisoning squad behind an attempt to kill Alexei Navalny.

    ‘They came across as muppets’: Christo Grozev on being target of Bulgarian spy ring

  • Russian investigative journalist Roman Dobrokhotov fled Russia in 2021 and has been fearing for his life ever since.

    ‘Burn him alive on the street’: the Russian journalist targeted in UK by spy ring

  • Revealed: second Kremlin spy ring targeting Russian dissidents discovered in UK

  • Three UK-based Bulgarians found guilty of spying for Russia

  • ‘The dumbest thing I’ve ever done’: spy trial’s tales of scheming, bluster and a love triangle

January 2025

  • Katrin Ivanova

    Woman accused of stealing Ukrainian soldiers’ mobile numbers, court hears

    Prosecutor at Old Bailey says Katrin Ivanova was only member of Bulgarian spy ring able to pull off plot

  • Bottom half of person standing on a muddy road with a body lying on the ground, pixillated out, and an inset picture of a young Egyptian man, the one who died on the road.

    Bulgarian police ‘blocked rescue’ of teenage migrants who froze to death

    Report by rights groups alleges border police refused to rescue boys and blocked activists’ efforts to save them

  • Alexander Hurst

    Open borders defy rising nationalism in Europe. We must protect them

    Alexander Hurst

    Reimposing passport checks in the Schengen area creates new political lines in our minds – and that poses its own danger, says Guardian Europe columnist Alexander Hurst

December 2024

  • Houses covered in snow

    Weather tracker

    Weather tracker: Storm brings well over a metre of snow to peaks in Alps

    Several days of snow brought avalanche risk at Christmas, as wintry weather also caused four deaths in India

  • A group of people sitting in rows in the corner of a room

    Bulgaria trying to force out Syrian asylum seekers after fall of Assad

    Exclusive: NGO finds Syrians subjected to interrogations and reportedly pressed into signing return documents

  • A beach in Tunisia.

    Holidaymakers on smaller budgets turning to Tunisia and Egypt, says Tui

    Bulgaria also among more affordable choices as vacations remain a priority

November 2024

  • No Place for You in Our Town.

    No Place for You in Our Town review – uncomfortably up close with Bulgarian football hooligans

    Nikolay Stefanov’s documentary, which follows fans of FC Minyor Pernik, reveals much about what is behind this toxic masculinity

October 2024

  • Vilija Blinkevičiūtė at a press conference

    Lithuanian election winner promises to bolster defence to counter Russia threat

  • Maria Bakalova.

    The G2 interview

    ‘People are complex’: Maria Bakalova on Donald Trump – and playing Ivana in The Apprentice

July 2024

  • Firework factory explodes in town near Bulgaria's capital – video

    One person was killed and another injured after a firework factory exploded in Bulgaria in a town near the capital, Sofia

  • Huge fireball and smoke above the land

    One person dead and another injured in Bulgarian firework factory explosion

    Blaze on Thursday night at warehouse in Elin Pelin near Sofia set off series of dramatic fireballs

  • Aerial photo of people standing on the edge of a flooded street as others are carried over the water in the front bucket of a bulldozer

    Weather tracker

    Weather tracker: Heavy seasonal rain causes widespread flooding in China

    Six people dead, thousands evacuated and transport disrupted after at least 20 floods in major rivers

March 2024

  • The Neighbours.

    DIY spaces of remembrance: Artist’s tribute to Bulgaria’s gulag prisoners

    Installation aiming to ‘un-silence’ former inmates by recreating interior of their homes to go on display at Venice Biennale

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