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Month: December 2012

Bulgaria News 

Judge Sotir Tsatsarov elected Bulgaria’s prosecutor-general

December 20, 2012May 22, 2013 Alex Bivol judiciary

Bulgaria’s Supreme Judicial Council elected the head of Plovdiv Regional Court Sotir Tsatsarov as the next prosecutor-general on December 20,

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Business Europe News 

South Stream’s status high on Russia-EU summit agenda

December 20, 2012June 2, 2013 Alex Bivol energy, European Commission, Russia, South Stream

In the big picture of Russia’s relationship with the European Union, Bulgaria has never played a big role – certain

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Bulgaria News Sport 

Bulgaria to bid to host Euro 2020 matches

December 20, 2012December 20, 2012 The Sofia Globe staff

Bulgaria will bid to host at least one match of the 2020 European football championship, the president of the Bulgarian

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Bulgaria Europe News 

Snowdrifts, strong winds cause chaos in north-eastern Bulgaria as harsh winter weather grips Eastern Europe

December 20, 2012 The Sofia Globe staff

Heavy snowfalls and strong winds led to declarations of states of emergency in eight municipalities and a district in north-eastern

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Europe News World 

End of the world: Some fear, others plan to earn

December 20, 2012December 20, 2012 Oksana Grytsenko of The Kyiv Post

For the last three years, 27-year-old Kyivan Iryna Boyko has been searching the Internet to find out exactly what’s going

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Europe News 

Poland’s security chief: ‘No evidence of foreign interference’ in presidential air crash probe

December 20, 2012 The Warsaw Voice

Poland has no evidence of a foreign country interfering in an official probe into the plane crash in Russia two

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Bulgaria News 

Bulgaria’s winter weather: States of emergency in two districts, power cuts, traffic disruptions

December 20, 2012 The Sofia Globe staff

A state of emergency was in effect in the district of Shoumen in north-eastern Bulgaria and in the municipality of

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Bulgaria News 

Bulgarian PM Borissov: I believe in God, not the Mayan calendar

December 20, 2012 The Sofia Globe staff

Bulgarian Prime Minister Boiko Borissov is among the latest government leaders to reject claims based on an interpretation of the

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News World 

Archaeologist: Mayans did not predict Apocalypse

December 20, 2012 Jerome Socolovsky of VOANews

The Internet has been abuzz with rumors that the world will end – or at least be transformed – on

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