The State Agency for National Security - SANS has successfully counteracted Russian intelligence activities in Bulgaria in 2019. In its annual report, SANS considers as a serious success the interception of intelligence activities of Russian diplomats and the ban on entry of Gen. Leonid Reshetnikov and businessman Konstantin Malofeev for a period of 10 years.
SANS has no information about terrorist activity in Bulgaria, about planned attacks on Bulgarian citizens and interests abroad or about creating of terrorist structures in this country. SANS assesses risk to public order from the activities of extreme right and left structures as low. 86 pre-trial proceedings and inspections over violations against the country's financial system have also been reported, as defendants are 71.
After a heated debate, Parliament rejected the proposed GERB-SDS cabinet with Rosen Zhelyazkov as Prime Minister. It was supported by 98 MPs, with 138 voting against and two abstaining. Zhelyazkov, representing the first political force in Parliament,..
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Under the program of the European Civil Protection Mechanism, 240 firefighters from 4 countries arrived in Greece to help their Greek colleagues, the Bulgarian Fire Protection Directorate has reported. Due to the high temperatures..
“Five people from the parliamentary group are going to be “torn apart” during the voting for a cabinet but will, most probably, not give their..
The first joint operation of the newly formed Mine Counter Measures Task Group Black Sea involving Bulgaria, Turkey and Romania is to take place July..
The caretaker government has fulfilled its main task successfully – organizing fair and transparent elections for National Assembly and for European..
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