Svetoslav Todorov

Activist facing possible deportation to Minsk may take his case to the European Court of Human Rights, citing his marital status and new repressive laws in Belarus, his legal representatives say.

Pro-Kremlin Revival party is tipped to perform strongly in elections due on October 27, the seventh in just three years - with no guarantee of an end to the cycle of inconclusive parliamentary polls.

Barys Barysau, the second Belarusian activist to be denied refugee status in Bulgaria recently, says he could face persecution by Alexander Lukashenko's repressive regime if he is returned to Minsk.

The pro-Russian Revival party is vying for second place heading into elections this weekend - Bulgaria's seventh in three years. A stable government may yet again prove elusive.

Centre-right party that long dominated Bulgarian politics looks set to come first by a wide margin in Sunday's elections – the seventh in three years.

Centre-right party polls well ahead of its rivals in election that will see a record nine parties – several of them espousing nationalist agendas – enter the next parliament

Opposition parties demand an investigation into alleged voting fraud in the recent elections, pointing accusing fingers at the party of oligarch Delyan Peevski.

A provincial mayor close to oligarch and political party leader Delyan Peevski has been accused of sending threats to investigative journalist Venelina Popova over her work uncovering alleged electoral corruption.

Angry nationalists jostled and heckled theatre-goers trying to attend the premiere of a John Malkovich-directed Bernard Shaw play set in the 1885 Serbo-Bulgarian war, claiming it insulted the memory of Bulgarian soldiers

The presence of high-level delegations from the Balkans at COP29, the UN's latest climate summit in Baku, cannot disguise their foot-dragging in the fight for a greener future.