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What we are doing through the social budgets is to have both pork and cabbage for all Bulgarians".

Asen Vassilev on GERB's program: They finally recognized that there should be a social element in the budget and have committed to it

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DANS points out that the activities of a group of Bulgarians who developed espionage for Russia, as well as of Russian citizens connected to the Russian special services, were stopped.

As part of the EU and NATO,

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in countering risks and threats from the activity of foreign special services in 2021, the following can be indicated:

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purposefully and consciously placed themselves at the service of the Russian Federation in order to serve it, as spies;

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involved in the activities of the Russian special services on the territory of the Republic of Bulgaria;

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who has placed himself in the service of a foreign special service;

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foreigners who are not wanted on the territory of the Republic of Bulgaria.

Bulgaria is an object of systematic intelligence interest, according to a report by the National Security Agency

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Both the moment and the occasion are by no means accidental.

The message is more than clear, containing a warning about what our rather patient EU partners expect from us.

Ursula von der Leyen will arrive in Bulgaria for the opening of the interconnector with Greece, the president of the European Commission personally confirmed to BTV.

"This is a decision for a reliable source that is not looking to use the gas as a weapon," she commented to our camera, right after her State of the Union speech to MEPs in Strasbourg.

The tone and messages of Ursula von der Leyen's speech today were unequivocal - authoritarianism has stood up to our democracy, but Putin will lose and Ukraine and Europe will win.

Ursula von der Leyen is coming to Bulgaria for the opening of the interconnector with Greece

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The former head of KEVR: I am still curious to hear what the cabinet's strategy is for gas

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The police umbrella investigation over Georgi Semerdzhiev reaches even higher levels.

This was announced by the Acting Interior Minister Ivan Demerdzhiev.

A few days ago, it was reported that 40 employees of the Ministry of Internal Affairs were helping him, three of them in management positions.

Employees at even higher levels are to be checked.

The Minister of the Interior: The police umbrella investigation over Semerdzhiev reaches even higher levels

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There have already been more than 10 such cases...

Vladimir Sungorkin

He is considered

It is included in the EU sanctions list for "manipulation, propaganda and disinformation".

The official information is that there are suspicions of a stroke.

According to information from "Interfax", 68-year-old Sungorkin died during a business trip in the Khabarovsk Territory, where he planned to collect material for a book.

Khabarovsk is his hometown.

One of Putin's closest propagandists died suddenly

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While explaining from Donbass what the situation is on the front, the correspondent Alexander Sladkov stated that the Russian army is suffering huge losses and has many wounded, but he quickly realized what he said and in an attempt to "blur" the situation added that they are still achieving "great success" .

A Russian correspondent close to the Kremlin inadvertently said something he shouldn't have

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Artem, who lives in the town of Balaklia in the Kharkiv region, told the BBC that he was held by Russians for more than 40 days and was tortured with electric shocks. 

Balaklia was liberated on September 8 after more than six months of occupation. 

The epicenter of the brutality, however, was the city's police station, which Russian forces used as their headquarters. 

Artem said he heard screams of pain and terror coming from other cells, and the Russian occupiers made sure the captives' cries were heard by turning off the building's noisy ventilation system.

“They turned it off so everyone could hear people screaming when they got electrocuted.

They (the Russian occupiers - b.r.) did this every other day with some of the prisoners, among them there were women," he added, quoted by bTV.

Stories of brutal Russian torture by electric shock in Ukraine shocked the world

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The President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky participated in the raising of the state flag in the liberated city of Izyum in the Kharkiv Region.

This was announced by the Ukrainian head of state on the Facebook social network.

"Before, when we looked up, we always looked for the blue sky. Today, when we look up, we look for only one thing - the flag of Ukraine. Our blue and yellow is already flying in the liberated city of Izyum. And so it will be in every Ukrainian city and village. We are moving only in one direction - forward and towards victory," Zelensky wrote. 

Zelensky took part in the raising of the state flag in the liberated city of Izyum and declared: We are moving in only one direction - forward and towards victory

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