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Day: August 15, 2012

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Controversial Russian businessman charged with embezzlement in Bulgaria

August 15, 2012May 22, 2013 The Sofia Globe staff energy

Denis Ershov, the controversial Russian businessman once declared a persona non grata in Bulgaria, has been charged with embezzling funds

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Bulgaria Business News 

Bulgaria’s finance, health ministers clash on differentiated VAT

August 15, 2012August 15, 2012 The Sofia Globe staff

Bulgaria’s Finance Minister Simeon Dyankov and Health Minister Dessislava Atanassova remain on opposite ends of the debate concerning the introduction

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Leisure 

Film review: Cosmopolis

August 15, 2012August 15, 2012 Andre Crous of The Prague Post

Though billing itself as an apocalyptic vision of the future resulting from capitalist greed, David Cronenberg’s Cosmopolis is a vanity

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News World 

Australian high court upholds plain cigarette packaging

August 15, 2012August 15, 2012 VOANews

Australia’s highest court has ruled that new laws requiring cigarettes to be sold in plain packaging without company logos do

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Bulgaria Business News 

Businesses complain of power cuts in Sofia as utility renovates network

August 15, 2012August 15, 2012 The Sofia Globe staff

Businesses and residents in Bulgaria’s capital city Sofia are complaining about what they say are lengthy and unpredictable power cuts

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Bulgaria News 

Archaeology: Excavation of two tombs to begin at Bulgaria’s Perperikon

August 15, 2012August 15, 2012 The Sofia Globe staff

Excavation of two previously unopened tombs at Bulgaria’s ancient sacred site of Perperikon was to begin on August 15 2012,

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News World 

Bomb wounds three near UN hotel in Syrian capital

August 15, 2012August 15, 2012 VOANews

Syrian state television says a bomb has exploded near a hotel used by United Nations observers in Damascus, wounding three

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