A high-ranking officer of the Russian intelligence service and head of the team involved in the attempted murder of Sergey Skripal and his daughter Julia in March 2018 is the man caught on tape in the building of EMKO company in 2015.

Bulgaria will expel two Russian citizens suspected of espionage. Thereafter, country’s actions against the “malign foreign influence” won the support of its Euro-Atlantic allies, the US, the United Kingdom and Canada.

“The U.S. Embassy commends recent actions of the Bulgarian government to defend the country’s independence and sovereignty from malign influence, including the January 24 announcement of the expulsion of two Russian Embassy officers for espionage and the January 23 announcement of charges against three Russian citizens for attempted murder,” reads a special statement of the U.S. Embassy in Bulgaria published on its internet page.

Two more Russian diplomats posted in Bulgaria have been caught in espionage and divulgence of official secrets pertaining to election procedure and energy sector in the country, it transpired from the Prosecutor’s Office statement.

Three officers of the Russian military intelligence (formerly known as GRU) have been charged with the attempted murder of arms dealer Emiliyan Gebrev, his son, and a third individual with the initials V.T., the Prosecutor’s Office announced on 23 January. According to an investigation conducted by the website Bellingcat, the defendants are Denis Sergeev (aka Sergey Fedotov), Sergey Lyutenko (aka Sergey Pavlov) and Piotr Borissov (aka Georgi Gorshkov).

Very soon the citizens of Sofia and tourists coming to Bulgaria's capital will be able to visit the medieval church of St Spas, the remnants of which are preserved right at the heart of the city. The archaeological layers uncovered at this place are abundant in artefacts and date back to different epochs. Among them are an antique street from the 2nd-3rd centuries, part of the fortification wall of ancient Serdica with a round tower and a medieval church from the 11th-13th centuries. All these monuments will be converted into a new archaeological complex.

The oligarchy’s minions never sleep. And they are extremely pathetic in their ridiculous efforts to pose as democrats, victims of the status quo, and champions for justice. A great illustration is the supposedly non-governmental organisation Boets, which boasts exactly one member – Georgi Georgiev, fugitive banker Tsvetan Vassilev’s footboy.

You can tell Google to erase you from its memory (requesting the removal of specific results for queries that include your name from Google Search is actually an option). This is essentially what Ivan Kostov, former Bulgarian prime minister and the mastermind behind the country’s transition to democracy, did – he tried to hide his dark past under a thick shroud so that society can forget how he sold public assets at cents on the dollar.

The criminal tandem of fugitive banker Tsvetan Vassilev and his loyal string puppet Emiliyan Gebrev have made yet another attempt to snatch the Dunarit defence plant right from under the nose of the state. And the regional judges of Ruse lend them a shoulder in their endeavor, shows the journalistic inquiry by Blitz.

“Peevski granted permission to build in Mladost,” pronounces a headline in the website Frognews owned by Ognyan Stefanov (aka Agent Academician). And some too-busy-to-read-further resident of the aforementioned neighbourhood in the capital Sofia undoubtedly got up in arms about the fact that Peevski would be building something in the area. This Peevski, however, is not that Peevski.