Bourgas bomb shelter to become ‘bewitched’ tourist attraction
Bourgas, on Bulgaria’s Black Sea, is to turn a Cold War-era bomb shelter built to accommodate 3500 people into a
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Year: 2012
Bulgarian railways starts pre-sales of tickets for summer trains to the seaside
Bulgarian state railways BDZ started on June 18 2012 pre-sales of tickets for seats on trains to the Black Sea
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G20 leaders arrive in Mexico for summit
World leaders are gathering in Mexico for a two-day G20 summit which begins Monday in the Pacific coast resort of
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World Bank boosted lending to Bulgaria to keep SE Europe stable, Zoellick says
The World Bank had been increasing its lending to support Bulgaria’s banking system – one of the most exposed to
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French Socialists win majority in parliamentary vote
French President Francois Hollande’s Socialist Party has taken a solid majority in Sunday’s runoff parliamentary elections. Partial polling results show
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Sofia mayor vows to speed building of dog pound after strays kill elderly man
The death of an elderly Sofia man after he was savaged by a pack of stray dogs – the second
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Russia Watch: Putin fails to scare Moscow’s middle class
The young protester handing out fake “Go Straight to Jail” tickets just didn’t get it. In advance of Tuesday’s protest
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Greek elections: Centre-right New Democracy’s slim lead ‘vote to keep euro’
Greece’s centre-right New Democracy party took a narrow lead in June 17 2012 elections in what party leader Antonis Samaras
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Bulgarian President vetoes Forestry Act amendments
Bulgarian President Rossen Plevneliev vetoed on June 16 the controversial amendments to the Forestry Act adopted earlier in the week.
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