Bulgaria needs a transition government composed of experts that would lead the country out of the ongoing crisis and bring it to the next elections, Veselin Mareshki, the leader of the opposition Volya party, told Sputnik in an interview as anti-government protests continue to rock the country

Two police officers have been injured and six people were detained during anti-government protests against corruption that are taking place in the Bulgarian capital of Sofia, state broadcaster Radio Bulgaria said on Wednesday, citing Anton Zlatanov, the deputy head of the Sofia regional directorate of the police

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said on Friday that concerns coming from the global community in relation to turning the Hagia Sophia museum into a mosque were mere attempts to meddle in the country's internal affairs

A court in Moscow found former official at the Russian Ministry of Culture Sofia Apfelbaum guilty of negligence in a case involving theater director Kirill Serebrennikov, a Sputnik correspondent reported Friday from the courthouse