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Day: January 30, 2013

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Bulgaria will give 3.5M leva to Valley of Thracian Kings tourism and archaeology project, Finance Minister says

January 30, 2013June 2, 2013 The Sofia Globe staff Simeon Dyankov

Bulgaria’s Cabinet will contribute three and a half million leva (about 1.75 million euro) towards a tourism and archaeological project

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International tourism rebounding from global economic crisis, UN World Tourism Organisation says

January 30, 2013 The Sofia Globe staff

In spite of lingering economic instability because of the global financial crisis, international tourism increased robustly over the past year

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Business Europe News 

To pay or not to pay Gazprom, that’s the $7 billion question

January 30, 2013May 22, 2013 Jakub Parusinski of the Kyiv Post energy

With Russia sticking Ukraine with a $7 billion bill for not purchasing enough of its above market-priced natural gas last

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Facts about Russian Gazprom’s $7 billion bill to Ukraine’s Naftogaz

January 30, 2013May 22, 2013 Katya Gorchinskaya of The Kyiv Post energy

Just hours before Ukraine signed a $10 billion deal with Royal Dutch Shell on Jan. 24 to extract shale gas

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US senate confirms John Kerry as secretary of state

January 30, 2013January 30, 2013 Michael Bowman of VOANews

The U.S. Senate has voted 94 to 3 to confirm one of its own, Massachusetts Senator John Kerry, as secretary

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