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Month: August 2012

Business 

Bulgaria seals cheaper gas deal with Russia

August 28, 2012June 2, 2013 The Sofia Globe staff energy, South Stream

Bulgaria will pay, on average, 11 per cent less for Russian natural gas bought until the end of this year,

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Bulgaria Business News 

Bulgaria to sign movie co-production deal with Turkey

August 28, 2012August 28, 2012 The Sofia Globe staff

Bulgaria and Turkey were due to sign on August 28 2012 an agreement on joint film productions, according to Bulgaria’s

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Bulgaria Leisure News 

Art, classical music and jazz, theatre at Sozopol’s Apollonia Festival 2012

August 28, 2012August 28, 2012 The Sofia Globe staff

The 2012 Apollonia festival of the arts starts in Bulgaria’s southern Black Sea town of Sozopol on August 30, continuing

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Bulgaria Business News 

Improved infrastructure to boost Bulgaria’s tourism industry in 2013, hotel and restaurant body says

August 28, 2012June 2, 2013 The Sofia Globe staff tourism

Bulgaria’s tourism industry expects a 10 to 15 per cent growth in tourism in 2013, mainly because of major infrastructure

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Beach at Lozenets on the Bulgarian Black Sea coast Photo: Clive Leviev-Sawyer
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Bulgarian Black Sea resorts cut prices after peak season passes

August 28, 2012August 28, 2012 The Sofia Globe staff

With the end of August and the passing of the peak summer season, Bulgaria’s Black Sea coastal resort hotels have

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Bulgaria Europe Leisure News 

Bulgaria’s first electronic border control counters opened at Sofia Airport

August 28, 2012May 22, 2013 The Sofia Globe staff

The first electronic border control desks in Bulgaria were opened at Sofia Airport’s Terminal 2 on August 28 2012. The

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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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