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Year: 2012

Bulgaria News 

Bulgaria releases image of second suicide bombing suspect

August 16, 2012August 16, 2012 The Sofia Globe staff

Bulgaria’s Interior Ministry released on August 16 a reconstructed image of the second man believed to be involved in the

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Europe News 

Communist symbol ban spreads among Russia’s neighbors

August 16, 2012June 2, 2013 James Brooke VOA Moscow Bureau Chief Ukraine

In Lviv, Western Ukraine nationalists fought last year to block communists from bringing red flags to the city’s World War

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Bulgaria warns citizens to be ready to quit Lebanon if spillover of problems from Syria worsens

August 16, 2012August 16, 2012 The Sofia Globe staff

Bulgaria’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs issued a call on August 16 2012 for Bulgarians in Lebanon to “exercise the utmost

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Bulgaria News 

Spain arrests 22 on Bulgarian ship trafficking close to 3 tons of cocaine

August 16, 2012August 16, 2012 The Sofia Globe staff

Twenty-two Bulgarians are in custody in Cadiz after Spanish authorities arrested Bourgas-registered vessel Saint Nikolai on the high seas in

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Bulgaria 

Early-morning bomb blast at Sofia pop-folk club

August 16, 2012August 16, 2012 The Sofia Globe staff

An explosive device estimated to have been the equivalent of 200 grams of TNT detonated outside the Kosharite folk club

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Bulgaria Business News 

Controversial Russian businessman charged with embezzlement in Bulgaria

August 15, 2012May 22, 2013 The Sofia Globe staff energy

Denis Ershov, the controversial Russian businessman once declared a persona non grata in Bulgaria, has been charged with embezzling funds

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Bulgaria Business News 

Bulgaria’s finance, health ministers clash on differentiated VAT

August 15, 2012August 15, 2012 The Sofia Globe staff

Bulgaria’s Finance Minister Simeon Dyankov and Health Minister Dessislava Atanassova remain on opposite ends of the debate concerning the introduction

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Leisure 

Film review: Cosmopolis

August 15, 2012August 15, 2012 Andre Crous of The Prague Post

Though billing itself as an apocalyptic vision of the future resulting from capitalist greed, David Cronenberg’s Cosmopolis is a vanity

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News World 

Australian high court upholds plain cigarette packaging

August 15, 2012August 15, 2012 VOANews

Australia’s highest court has ruled that new laws requiring cigarettes to be sold in plain packaging without company logos do

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