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Year: 2012

The beach at Sveti Vlas on Bulgaria's Black Sea coast
Bulgaria Business Leisure News 

Bulgaria to spend five million leva on marketing tourism

June 20, 2012June 20, 2012 The Sofia Globe staff

Bulgaria’s Cabinet has instructed the Finance Ministry to pay five million leva (about 2.5 million euro) to the Economy, Energy

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Two Bulgarian passports
Bulgaria Business Europe News 

Bulgarian Cabinet approves new scheme for citizenship for investors

June 20, 2012May 22, 2013 The Sofia Globe staff

Bulgaria’s Cabinet approved, at a meeting on June 20 2012, proposed changes to the Citizenship Act that will facilitate the

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Perspectives 

To the Editor: Accusations against Romania’s Ponta are unsubstantiated

June 20, 2012May 27, 2013 Romanian government press office Romania

Dear Mr Chief Editor, As you are well aware, on the 18th of June, Mr. Victor Ponta, the Prime Minister

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Bulgaria News 

Competing protests in Sofia over Forestry Act amendments

June 20, 2012May 27, 2013 Alex Bivol Sofia

Two protest rallies, for and against the recently-vetoed amendments to the Forestry Act, have been scheduled in Sofia on June

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television remote control
Bulgaria News 

Bulgaria’s media watchdog to discuss late-night porn shows with Prosecutor-General

June 20, 2012May 27, 2013 The Sofia Globe staff Media

The Council for Electronic Media, the statutory body that oversees Bulgaria’s broadcast media, has asked for a meeting with the

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News World 

Egypt’s Mubarak on life support as protests swell

June 20, 2012June 20, 2012 VOANews

Egyptian security sources say ousted President Hosni Mubarak is unconscious and on a respirator after he was rushed from prison

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News World 

Egypt’s Mubarak dead at 84

June 20, 2012June 20, 2012 VOANews

Former Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak, the man long seen as the symbol of stability in the Middle East but who

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Wikileaks founder Julian Assange
News World 

WikiLeaks founder Assange seeks asylum in Ecuador

June 20, 2012June 20, 2012 VOANews

Ecuador’s foreign minister says WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has asked for political asylum in the South American nation. Ricardo Patino

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Bulgaria Leisure News 

Bulgaria’s archaeological summer heats up

June 19, 2012May 27, 2013 Hristina Dimitrova archaeology

Bulgaria’s archaeological summer, just like the meteorological one, promises to be very hot. In Sarafovo, near Bourgas on the Black

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