- A 53-year-old man set himself on fire in the southern town of Radnevo, becoming the third such case in Bulgaria in just a week.
- Bulgaria's outgoing Prime Minister Boyko Borisov has been listed in the government hospital in the capital Sofia with hypertensive crisis.
- Bulgarians stage a new nationwide protest rally Sunday, March 3, the day marking the 135th anniversary of its Liberation from five centuries of Ottoman yoke.
- "Front for Saving Bulgaria - for Boyko" has been established with the goal of uniting all Bulgarians who want outgoing Prime Minister Boyko Borisov to keep ruling the country.
- MPs from "Order, Law, Justice" (RZS), a controversial marginal Bulgarian conservative party, have tabled to the Bulgarian Parliament a motion for... a referendum for the adoption a new constitution.
- The leader of Bulgaria's far right nationalist Ataka party, Volen Siderov, managed once again to stir a scandal in shouting and storming out of the emergency sitting of the Consultative Council for National Security at the Office of the President.
- Bulgarian President Rosen Plevneliev has sent a message for preventing the destabilization of the Bulgarian state amidst the ongoing protests against power utilities and corruption in the wake of the resignation of the Borisov Cabinet.
- Bulgaria's Prime Minister Boyko Borisov resigned in order to expose his political opponents, Borisov's closest aide, Interior Minister Tsvetan Tsvetanov, has said.
- Bulgarian Socialist MEP Iliyana Yotva has suggested that the Chief Prosecutor should initiate a self-referral and ban outgoing Finance Minister and Deputy Prime Minister Simeon Djankov from leaving the country until the financial situation of the country becomes clear.
- Police have detained a young man carrying a pistol and a knife in front of the President's Office in downtown Sofia.
- Bulgaria's Prosecutor's Office has assigned the State National Security Company DANS with the task of investigating reports that Ahmed Dogan, ex leader of Bulgaria's ethnic Turkish party DPS, ordered the assassination of outgoing Prime Minister Boyko Borisov.
- Controversial Bulgarian Metropolitan Nikolay is selling his notorious Rolex watch to pay the electric bill of the Saint Marina church in his bishopric, the second largest city of Plovdiv.
Tuesday, February 26, 2013
Bulgaria On Edge: Today's Headlines From Sofia
Headlines from the Sofia News Agency speak for themselves:
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