Kenneth Merten is no longer the Ambassador of the United States of America to Bulgaria. Martin McDowell, a career member of the Senior Foreign Service, becomes the Chargé d’Affaires at the Embassy of the United States in Sofia, Bulgaria.
Kenneth Merten submitted his resignation, which was accepted by U.S. President Donald Trump. “It is common practice when a new administration takes office in the U.S. that all acting ambassadors submit a letter offering their resignation. The President has accepted the resignation of Ambassador Kenneth Merten, thanking him for his long and dedicated service to the United States,” the US Embassy in Sofia said in a statement.
Bulgaria’s Ministry of Foreign affairs advised Bulgarian citizens to avoid travelling to the Democratic Republic of Congo, especially to the eastern parts of the country, including the city of Goma in North Kivu Province and the city of Bukavu in..
Five authors and four translators will be residents at the Sofia Literature and Translation House in 2025, the organizers announced. A resident at Sofia Literature and Translation House will be Natalia Matolinets, a novelist and short..
200 Bulgarian students between the ages of 11 and 15 will be able to attend NASA space camps in Turkey this summer. Dilyana Georgieva, programme manager of the Space Camp Türkiye 2025 programme, told Radio Varna. The competition for participation is..
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Bulgaria’s Minister of Defense Atanas Zapryanov is leaving on a three-day visit to the United States, the Ministry of Defense said. Minister Zapryanov..
''A Bulgarian ship was detained on suspicion of damaging a telecommunications cable under the Baltic Sea between the Latvian city of Ventspils and the..
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