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Day: August 20, 2012

Business 

Russian civil servants favour Bulgarian property – report

August 20, 2012August 20, 2012 The Sofia Globe staff

Russian civil servants with property abroad favoured Bulgarian real estate because of low prices and mild climate, business daily Vedomosti

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Bulgaria News 

Bulgarian police union demands higher wages, threatens to protest

August 20, 2012August 20, 2012 The Sofia Globe staff

One of Bulgaria’s largest police trade unions said on August 20 it was prepared to hold protest rallies if the

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Bulgaria News 

Sofia delays introduction of ‘blue zone’ parking stickers

August 20, 2012August 20, 2012 The Sofia Globe staff

Following protests by residents of central Sofia, the city hall decided on August 20 to delay by one month, to

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Bulgaria News 

Forest fire burns near Bulgaria’s Rila Monastery

August 20, 2012August 20, 2012 The Sofia Globe staff

The wildfire near Bulgaria’s Rila Monastery was spreading, reports in Bulgarian media said on August 20, but it was no

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Bulgaria Europe News 

NY Times: Bulgarian media wars draw EC’s attention

August 20, 2012May 22, 2013 The Sofia Globe staff

Conflicts between Bulgarian media groups and the decline of media freedoms in Bulgaria has drawn the attention of the European

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News World 

Taxes heat up US presidential campaign

August 20, 2012August 20, 2012 Pamela Dockins of VOANews

The political campaigns of U.S. President Barack Obama and Republican challenger Mitt Romney have sharpened their attacks against each other

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News World 

Assange calls for US to end ‘witch-hunt’

August 20, 2012August 20, 2012 Al Pessin of VOANews

WikiLeaks founder and wanted fugitive Julian Assange made a defiant statement from the balcony of the Ecuadorian Embassy in London

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Leisure News World 

Hollywood director Tony Scott dies

August 20, 2012August 20, 2012 VOANews

Authorities in Los Angeles say movie director Tony Scott, director of such Hollywood blockbusters as Top Gun, Days of Thunder

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News Perspectives World 

Russia Watch: Kremlin x Pussy Riot: Girls win!

August 20, 2012August 20, 2012 James Brooke VOA Moscow Bureau Chief

“Who breaks a butterfly upon a wheel?” – Alexander Pope, 1735 This summer, Vladimir Putin tried to break three of

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