On Jan. 1, Bulgaria became the eurozone’s 21st member when it gave up its 145-year-old currency, the lev, for the euro. In ...

Bulgaria became the 21st member of the Eurozone on Thursday, completing a long-sought step in its European integration ...

On January 1, Bulgaria officially switched to the euro, finally cementing its course toward the EU. For Moscow, this was a major geopolitical defeat: attempts to keep Sofia within Russia's zone of ...

Late into the night, the Burgas refinery—Bulgaria’s sole oil-processing plant—became the center of a dramatic government intervention. The facility, owned by Russia’s Lukoil and responsible for ...

Bulgaria is drafting new legislation that will allow it to seize control of an important oil refinery belonging to Russia's sanctioned oil giant Lukoil. The Burgas refinery is the only one of its kind ...

The European External Action Service (EEAS) has dismissed Russia’s recent accusations regarding the destruction of Soviet monuments in Bulgaria and other countries as unfounded. EEAS spokesperson ...

When Russian citizens who have been involved in dissident activities seek asylum in Bulgaria they are often rejected – and the reasons remain unclear. Konstantin Semenov is a founder of a company ...

But what comes next for the crucial refinery on the outskirts of Bulgaria's Black Sea city of Burgas is uncertain. On October 22, Washington announced it would impose sanctions on Russian oil giants ...

Bulgaria on Friday nominated a senior government official to take control of a major Lukoil refinery in the east of the country following US sanctions against the Russian oil giant. The United States ...

SOFIA, Bulgaria — Bulgaria is racing to prevent the shutdown of its only oil refinery before U.S. sanctions on the Russian owner take effect later this month. Parliament in Sofia approved legal ...