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Sofia Mayor Vasil Terziev admitted his city botched trash pickup in the Lyulin neighborhood after transferring the waste plant operations to Zone 3, but they finally got most areas back on track. The municipality threw everything at the mess with equipment, workers, and random volunteers helping...

Prof. Minkin at University Hospital St. Ivan Rilski in Bulgaria just put in the country's first baclofen pump, which is basically a hockey-puck-sized gadget that sits under your stomach skin and drips medication through a tiny tube straight to your spinal cord. The device helps people with...

Electrohold and Sofia Graffiti Tour teamed up again to paint 10 transformer stations owned by ERM West with street art that pushes messages about power safety, environmental stuff, clean energy, and sports. The company behind it all ran a campaign called Life is worth more than likes with the...

Sofia police chief Plamen Maksimov got busted alongside some anti-drug unit cops in a corruption sweep. The Internal Security Service and the drug trafficking prevention folks ran the operation, and they grabbed multiple officers who were supposedly fighting narcotics. Maksimov had been running...

Bulgaria's Prime Minister Rosen Zhelyazkov stepped down after protests led by Gen Z demonstrators angry about corruption and dysfunction in their government. The young people mobilized through TikTok and brought down the sixth leader in five years, making it the first European government toppled...

Vazrazhdane plans to back the cabinet resignation but wants Bulgaria to pump the brakes on euro adoption by asking for a one-year delay. Party leader Kostadin Kostadinov says the country can request an extension until 2027 because of force majeure circumstances like not having a budget or a...

Bulgarian trade unions from CITUB and Podkrepa blocked the deputy entrance to parliament and dropped a 15-question list demanding answers before the budget votes move forward. Plamen Dimitrov from CITUB says lawmakers need to hash out budget changes instead of coasting on an extension law, since...

Sociologists Evelina Slavkova and Parvan Simeonov say Bulgarian protesters are ready to keep hitting the streets if politicians keep screwing around, and everything hinges on whether President Rumen Radev launches his political project. Simeonov figures Borisov will blame protesters for any euro...

Nikolay Denkov from PP-DB says mass protests knocked out the Zhelyazkov government after citizens figured out three major lies the establishment kept pushing for years. He claims people finally realized their voices matter when over 100,000 demonstrators hit the streets, and the whole "stability...

President Rumen Radev has to offer GERB first crack at forming a government since they pulled the most seats, and the mandate slides over to PP-DB if GERB whiffs on putting together a coalition. The president gets to pick whoever receives the third attempt if the second-largest party also...

Bulgaria's Supreme Court of Cassation is running a random lottery through its computer system to pick a new prosecutor who gets to investigate the chief prosecutor and his deputies. The position caps out at two years before whoever lands the gig goes back to their old job, and Prosecutor General...

Bulgaria's parliament lined up to greenlight Prime Minister Rosen Zhelyazkov stepping down after protesters spent days hammering the government over economic failures and corruption allegations. Boyko Borisov from GERB confirmed the resignation hits the floor as agenda item number one, and...

Sociologist Yuri Aslanov says Bulgaria's government collapsed after massive street protests forced politicians to bail, and another snap election looks inevitable. The ruling party couldn't handle the heat from citizens demanding accountability and clean governance, though the timing and outcome...

Warner Music shuffled the deck across Australia and Southeast Asia by bumping up Alex Young to handle domestic artist operations and promoting Dan Ellis to run international strategy for the whole region. Young gets Charlotte Kindred as her right hand for export planning, plus Sarah Thomas...

Jay-Z's private equity outfit MarcyPen teamed up with South Korean asset manager Hanwha to drop a $500 million fund aimed at boosting Korean culture brands worldwide. MarcyPen handles over $900 million in assets after merging Jay-Z's Marcy Venture Partners with Pendulum Holdings back in...

Graham Gouldman from 10cc is going after his old manager, Harvey Lisberg, and the publisher Man-Ken Music for hanging onto US copyrights, he says belong back to him. The songwriter sent termination notices back in 2020 for 13 tracks he registered between 1965 and 1968, but Lisberg allegedly kept...

Pro Music Rights and its parent company are threatening to sue Wisconsin Representative Scott Fitzgerald after he asked the FTC to investigate the PRO for sketchy business practices. Chairman Jake P. Noch says the letter contains false claims about the company's catalog and accuses Fitzgerald of...

Rostrum Pacific pulled $150 million from Crayhill Capital Management to buy up music catalogs, and the indie label outfit plans to scale up acquisitions through its SpaceHeater distribution platform. CEO Benjy Grinberg merged Rostrum Records, Fat Beats, Cantora Records, and SpaceHeater under one...

Spotify dropped a beta feature in New Zealand that lets people type out prompts to generate custom playlists, and the algorithm pulls from their entire listening history plus wider music trends. Users can ask for stuff like deep cuts from their top artists over the last five years or request a...

Warner Chappell Music merged all its sync licensing operations under Rich Robinson, who already runs global synchronization and media as EVP. Gavin Caroll from the Production Music side will report directly to Robinson instead of working separately, and Robinson also gets oversight of the Audio...