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The office of Bulgaria's uber-powerful prosecutor-general quickly spread misleading information after a roadside blast near his motorcade, sparking confusion and politicking, and accusations that the attack was a false flag.
Bulgaria recently announced it expelling 70 Russian diplomats for posing a "threat to national security." Russian Ambassador Eleonora Mitrofanova is not being expelled, despite such calls for months now by many Bulgarians for her less-than-diplomatic activities.
Coming as tensions mount in Ukraine over a massive Russian buildup of troops near its border, and with the United States hitting Moscow with major new sanctions, expelling 10 diplomats, the Czech announcement shook Prague’s politics and was likely to further roil Western relations with Moscow. "There is unequivocal evidence about the involvement of officers of the Russian intelligence service GRU...in the explosion of the ammunitions depot,” Prime Minister Andrej Babis told an unusual night news conference on April 17. He also said 18 Russians working at the Russian Embassy were being exp...