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Year: 2012

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Europe News 

Region: Doctors protest against healthcare reform

November 26, 2012 Kasia Pilat for The Prague Post

‘Thank you, we are leaving’ campaign spreads across CEE region Long-running tensions between doctors and governments in the Visegrad Four

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Bulgaria News 

Second round of cleanup of anti-Semitic and other hate speech graffiti in Sofia

November 26, 2012November 26, 2012 The Sofia Globe staff

Volunteers from various ethnic communities in Sofia joined on November 25 2012 in a cleanup of swastikas and other symbols

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Business News World 

Facebook power grab?

November 26, 2012November 26, 2012 Doug Bernard of VOANews

Should Facebook Be Able To “Dislike” Privacy Changes?  There’s an old truism in public relations: if you have bad news

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Europe News Perspectives 

Turkey’s PM, president manoeuvre for power

November 26, 2012November 26, 2012 Dorian Jones of VOANews

Turkey appears to be witnessing a new rivalry between its prime minister and president.  Although both are founding members of

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News Perspectives World 

Russia Watch: Back to the Future: 2012 US-Russia relations echo 1832

November 26, 2012November 26, 2012 James Brooke VOA Moscow Bureau Chief

The U.S. Ambassador labored to get Congress to ratify a trade treaty that would grant “favored nation” status to Russia.

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Bulgaria News 

Three nominees in the running for Bulgaria’s next prosecutor-general

November 23, 2012May 22, 2013 The Sofia Globe staff judiciary

Three people have been put forth as Bulgaria’s next prosecutor-general before the deadline for nominations expired, amid lingering doubts about

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Europe News 

EU leaders make little progress in budget talks

November 23, 2012May 22, 2013 VOANews

European Union leaders made little progress Friday at a second day of talks on a new budget aimed at confronting

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Bulgaria News 

Bulgaria’s failed Constitutional Court judge handed ‘golden parachute’

November 23, 2012May 22, 2013 The Sofia Globe staff judiciary

Bulgaria’s Supreme Judicial Council (SJC) has accepted the resignation of Veneta Markovska, the Constitutional Court judge that never was, handing

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Bulgaria News 

Bulgarians abroad to be allowed to vote in nuclear referendum

November 23, 2012May 22, 2013 The Sofia Globe staff energy

Bulgarians living outside the country will have the opportunity to cast ballots in the January 2013 referendum on the future

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