A combination picture shows Kornelia Ninova (L), leader of the Bulgarian Socialist party and Boiko Borisov, former Bulgarian prime minister and leader of centre-right GERB party voting in Sofia, Bulgaria, March 26, 2017. REUTERS/Staff
SOFIA (Reuters) - Bulgarians were voting in a snap general election on Sunday, with the centre-right GERB party challenged for power by Socialists who say they will improve ties with Russia even if it means upsetting the country's European Union partners.
Many Bulgarians feel a strong cultural affinity for Russia, with which they share the Cyrillic script and Orthodox Christianity and a decade after joining the EU, the Balkan country remains the bloc's poorest member with corruption rife.
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