Ultra-nationalist Bulgarian politician Miroslav Ivanov was condemned by Shalom, the Jewish umbrella organisation in Bulgaria and EJC affiliate, for a television interview denying the Holocaust and praising Adolf Hitler.

Ceremonies were held in Bulgaria’s capital city Sofia and elsewhere in the country on March 10 commemorating the 1943 rescue of the Bulgarian Jews from deportation to the death camps.

The host of a popular game show on Bulgarian public TV quoted on air the antisemitic rantings of the late chess master Bobby Fischer, then apologized the following day, a day after the broadcasting company’s top official.

The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) ruled against Bulgaria in two cases, one lodged by two Bulgarian Jews and one by two Roma people, over rulings against them in cases involving far-right politician Volen Siderov.

Praise has come in for the banning by Sofia's mayor of the “Lukov March”, an annual march held in tribute to a pro-Nazi general in the Bulgarian capital.

Dr. Aleksander Oscar, the President of Shalom Organisation of Jews in Bulgaria has been awarded with the Order of Civil Merit by President Rumen Radev for his outstanding achievements for the development of civil society, the protection of human rights and freedoms, and the strengthening of democratic institutions in the Republic of Bulgaria.