Human Rights Watch asks Bulgaria to denounce calls to stone gays
Human Rights Watch asked Bulgaria’s Justice Minister Diana Kovacheva to denounce an orthodox priest’s calls that anyone participating in the
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Year: 2012
Bulgaria moves to grant refugees EU resident status
Bulgaria’s Cabinet approved on June 27 amendments to the Foreigners Act that will give refugees and other beneficiaries of international
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Bulgarian Development Bank has 200 million leva to lend to SMEs – report
Bulgarian Development Bank (BDB) had secured 200 million leva that it hoped to lend to small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs)
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Bulgarian among 24 arrested in international operation against ‘carding’ group
A Bulgarian was among 24 people arrested in a major international operation against a “carding” scheme, offences in which the
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Key European leaders call for tighter financial control
Key European leaders are calling for much tighter central control of spending by the 17 countries that use the euro
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Russia Watch: Putin the Permissive and Russian football hooligans
The world may indeed be flat. Several thousand Russians recently traveled to the western edge of their country – and
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Erdogan warns Damascus of Turkey’s ‘wrath’
Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan is ratcheting up the pressure on Syria over the shooting down of a Turkish
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Bulgarian MPs accept presidential veto on Judiciary Act amendments
The legal affairs committee of Bulgarian Parliament voted on June 26 to accept the veto imposed by President Rossen Plevneliev
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Paltry prospects for Bulgaria’s new political parties
An opinion survey in June 2012 said that Bulgarians – who are about a year away from national parliamentary elections
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