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Day: October 19, 2012

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Plans aplenty, but little certainty for nuclear power in Eastern Europe

October 19, 2012May 22, 2013 Alex Bivol energy

The proposed nuclear power plant at Belene has dominated public discourse in Bulgaria in recent weeks and with good reason,

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Bulgaria News 

Bulgarian Transport Minister slightly injured in car collision

October 19, 2012 The Sofia Globe staff

Bulgarian Transport Minister Ivailo Moskovski was slightly injured when the car in which he was travelling was involved in a

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Bulgaria News 

Protesters disrupt conference on Bulgaria’s communist-era culture minister Lyudmila Zhivkova

October 19, 2012October 20, 2012 The Sofia Globe staff

Cacophony erupted in a Sofia University lecture room when protesters disrupted the opening of a conference on Lyudmila Zhivkova, culture

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Bulgaria News 

Bulgarian actor to be prosecuted for illegal movie uploads

October 19, 2012 The Sofia Globe staff

Bulgarian anti-mafia and computer crime police have pressed charges against a 33-year-old actor after raiding his home in an investigation

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Bulgaria Europe News 

German police bust Bulgarian gang trafficking women for prostitution

October 19, 2012 The Sofia Globe staff

Police in Bremen and Lower Saxony Stuhr arrested six people alleged to be members of a Bulgarian gang bringing women

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Bulgaria News 

Bulgarian referendum question on Belene will not mention Belene, majority in parliamentary committee decides

October 19, 2012October 19, 2012 Clive Leviev-Sawyer

The latest twist in the plan for Bulgarians to vote in a referendum on whether to build Belene nuclear power

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Bulgaria News Perspectives 

The Belene nuclear project, Bulgaria’s radioactive political issue

October 19, 2012June 2, 2013 Clive Leviev-Sawyer Belene, Boiko Borissov, nuclear, Rossen Plevneliev, Sergei Stanishev

The farce into which Bulgaria’s planned national referendum on whether to proceed with the Belene nuclear power station has rapidly

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News Perspectives World 

Russia Watch: After 20 years of US aid, Russia goes solo on controlling loose nukes

October 19, 2012October 18, 2012 James Brooke VOA Moscow Bureau Chief

The day that Russia’s government decided last week to end its participation in the Nunn-Lugar Cooperative Threat Reduction program, a

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Europe News 

Renowned Turkish pianist on trial for insulting Islam

October 19, 2012October 18, 2012 VOANews

A world-renowned Turkish pianist is on trial on charges of inciting religious hatred and insulting Islam in comments he made

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