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Year: 2012

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
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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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Bulgaria Leisure News 

Archaeology: Plovdiv wants to expand Roman Forum dig after several finds

August 27, 2012August 26, 2012 Clive Leviev-Sawyer

Archaeologists working on digs at the Roman Forum and Odeon sites in Bulgaria’s second city of Plovdiv have unearthed a

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Film Review: Brave

August 27, 2012August 26, 2012 Andre Crous of The Prague Post

It is difficult to make a film with a teenager in the lead, especially when she is an animated princess,

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News World 

Pussy Riot: Two wanted band members flee Russia to avoid arrest

August 26, 2012August 26, 2012 VOANews

The Russian punk band Pussy Riot says two members wanted by Russian authorities have fled the country to escape arrest. The feminist

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News World 

Shooting reported at New York’s Empire State Building

August 24, 2012August 24, 2012 VOANews

Several people have been wounded and one killed in a shooting incident outside New York City’s Empire State Building, in

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Bulgarian prosecutors to investigate former Food Agency PR adviser

August 24, 2012August 24, 2012 The Sofia Globe staff

Bulgarian prosecutors have decided to open an investigation into how the company owned by a former media adviser for the

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Bulgaria News 

Evidence mounts against Bulgarian crew in Spanish cocaine bust – official

August 24, 2012 Alex Bivol

At least some of the Bulgarian sailors arrested in a drug bust off the coast of Spain on August 13

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