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Former US Ambassador to Bulgaria James Warlick will join Egorov Puginsky Afanasiev & Partners (EPA&P), a Russian law firm, as of January 2017.

Warlick made the announcement on Twitter, thus putting an end to 30 years of service for the US Department of State.

Currently he is the OSCE Minsk Group Co-Chair, a role he will leave on December 31.

Dr. Steve Pieczenik is a former US Department of State official who served in the Nixon administration. Pieczenik, who is considered an expert on matters of US and global intelligence, is held in high esteem in the circles of the US intelligence community. He is also a psychiatrist, an author and publisher.

BELGRADE - First Deputy PM and FM Ivica Dacic has met with US Assistant Secretary of State for International Security and Nonproliferation Thomas Countryman.

In its annual country reports on terrorism released on Thursday, the US Department of State notes that throughout last year Bulgaria continued to deport people it considers threats to national security and increased extradition of suspected foreign terrorist fighters.

US Department of State avoids to condemn the violations of Turkey in the area of the Greek island of Oinousses.

Washington has given Athens until next April to improve security levels of Greek identity cards in order to preserve the right of Greek nationals for visa-free travel to the United States as part of the Visa Waiver Program (VWP) of the US Department of State.

The "marginalization of and societal intolerance towards" the Romani minority remained Bulgaria's "most pressing human rights problem" throughout 2015, according to an official report of the United States.

An alert sent to the emergency hotline 112 left a key junction in the center of Bulgaria's capital Sofia sealed off for nearly an hour on Monday evening.

A controlled detonation was carried out after police cordoned off the junction of Vitosha and General Skobelev Blvds, meters from the National Palace of Culture.

A team of the specalized anti-terror squad was also deployed.

Bulgarian Prime Minister Boyko Borisov has dismissed warnings from the US Department of State about a possible attack in the capital Sofia.

"The information... does not match reality," he has made clear, adding there is no danger to either "residents or guests of Sofia."

There is no real threat to the life of citizens in the Bulgarian capital Sofia, the Interior Ministry's Chief Secretary, Georgi Kostov, has said.