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Day: August 27, 2012

Business 

Westinghouse picked to do Kozloduy plant new unit study

August 27, 2012May 22, 2013 The Sofia Globe staff energy

Bulgarian Energy Holding’s board of directors signed on August 27 a contract US nuclear consultancy firm Westinghouse to carry out

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Bulgaria News 

Relatives of Bourgas terrorist bombing victims visiting Bulgaria for commemorative ceremonies

August 27, 2012August 27, 2012 The Sofia Globe staff

Relatives of the five Israeli citizens who died in a suicide bomb attack by an as-yet unidentified terrorist in Bourgas

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Bulgaria News 

Stanishev seeks to stop socialists seeing red over ‘socialism is like AIDS’ remark

August 27, 2012August 27, 2012 Clive Leviev-Sawyer

A strange saga in the past few days has re-exposed rifts inBulgaria’s opposition socialist party – and exposed the fact

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Bulgaria News 

Booze cruising for a bruising at Bulgarian seaside resort

August 27, 2012August 27, 2012 The Sofia Globe staff

Foreign tourists in Bulgaria’s popular Black Sea resort of Sunny Beach are imbibing alcohol at astonishingly cheap prices – or

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Bulgaria Europe News 

Firefighters battle blazes in Bulgaria’s Rila Mountain, Serbia, Macedonia and Greece

August 27, 2012August 27, 2012 The Sofia Globe staff

Firefighters in Bulgaria continued their struggle against the blaze in the Beli Bor area of the Rila Mountain on August

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Bulgaria News 

Bulgaria cracks down on dodgy driving schools

August 27, 2012August 26, 2012 The Sofia Globe staff

Bulgarian authorities have begun investigating misleading advertisements by driving schools that offer fees of 200 to 300 leva (about 100

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Bulgaria News 

New Italian ambassador to Bulgaria named

August 27, 2012August 26, 2012 The Sofia Globe staff

Bulgarian media reports have identified career diplomat Marco Conticelli as the new Italian ambassador in Sofia, succeeding Stefano Benazzo. Conticelli

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Bulgaria Business Leisure News 

Hoteliers in Bulgaria’s Sunny Beach complain about foreign tourist complaints

August 27, 2012August 26, 2012 The Sofia Globe staff

Hoteliers in Bulgaria’s Black Sea resort of Sunny Beach say that shortcomings in legislation on the tourism industry expose them

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Seagulls at Riviera resort Golden Sands Bulgarian Black Sea coast photo Clive Leviev-Sawyer
Bulgaria Business Leisure News Perspectives 

The shape of summer 2012: Some notes on tourism in Bulgaria

August 27, 2012June 2, 2013 Clive Leviev-Sawyer tourism

Strolling the tourist area alleyways of Bulgaria’s Black Sea coastal resort of Golden Sands in August 2012, any passerby with

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