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Year: 2012

Bulgaria News 

Mild earth tremor recorded near Sofia

September 14, 2012September 14, 2012 The Sofia Globe staff

A mild earth tremor, estimated by the geophysical institute of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences at 2.6 magnitude on the

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Leisure 

Film review: Hope Springs

September 14, 2012 Andre Crous of The Prague Post

Sometimes, it’s tough not to cry, even when you know the film is little more than a tearjerker. Hope Springs

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Sport 

Uefa auditors dig into CSKA Sofia accounts

September 14, 2012 Alex Bivol

Four financial auditors from Uefa’s club financial control body arrived in Sofia to check the accounts of Bulgarian football club

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Bulgaria Leisure 

‘Flamenco with Antonio Heredia’ performances in Sofia and Plovdiv

September 14, 2012September 14, 2012 The Sofia Globe staff

Flamenco star Antonio Heredia and his band are to give a concert in Sofia and Plovdiv on September 20 in

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Leisure 

Bulgaria’s Brestovitsa village hosting wine festival

September 14, 2012May 6, 2013 The Sofia Globe staff

The second annual “Brestovitsa – grapes and wine” festival is being held on September 14 and 15 2012 in the

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Bulgaria Europe News 

Bulgarian FM Mladenov speaks on Macedonia’s ‘Third Half’ film controversy

September 14, 2012September 14, 2012 Clive Leviev-Sawyer

Macedonia’s controversial film Third Half, which emphasises Bulgaria’s World War 2 role in the deportation to Nazi death camps of

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Bulgaria Europe News 

Election results in Netherlands could mean step forward for Bulgaria’s Schengen entry, Tsvetanov says

September 14, 2012June 2, 2013 The Sofia Globe staff Schengen, Tsvetan Tsvetanov

The outcome of the September 12 2012 elections in the Netherlands, in which prime minister Mark Rutte’s liberal VVD party

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Bulgaria News Perspectives 

Thoroughly red in black and white: A journey through Bulgaria’s communist archives

September 14, 2012September 14, 2012 Clive Leviev-Sawyer

The hours after midnight tread by unheeded in this journey through another era, another dimension in which the language of

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Europe News World 

Pussy Riot sentence is deeply disappointing political intimidation, members of European Parliament say

September 14, 2012September 13, 2012 The Sofia Globe staff

The human rights situation in Russia has deteriorated drastically in the past few months, with the adoption of a series

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