18 000 foreigners granted Bulgarian citizenship in 2012
Bulgaria granted citizenship to 18 081 foreigners last year, Vice President Margarita Popova said on January 23. Citizenship applications, alongside
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Month: January 2013
Bulgarian housing prices down 2.7% in 2012
Housing prices in Bulgaria declined for a fourth consecutive year in 2012, but it was the smallest annual decline over
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Montenegro on track for EU membership, European Parliament committee says
Montenegro has made solid progress towards European Union membership and buttresses regional stability. Yet it must do more to protect
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Israeli exit polls show surprisingly narrow Netanyahu victory
Exit polls in Israel show Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s Likud party winning a narrow victory in Tuesday’s parliamentary elections, after
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Israel election: Exit polls show reverse for Netanyahu’s Likud, but with strong chance of victory in forming next governing coalition
Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s right-wing Likud-Yisrael Beteinu has shed support, according to exit polls after the January 22 2013
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Prosecutors try to pin 1996 murder of lawmaker on Tymoshenko
Amid rising speculation that she is in ill health and is not being allowed to properly consult with her lawyers,
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Bulgaria’s Council for Electronic Media criticises broadcast coverage of Dogan incident
Bulgaria’s Council for Electronic Media, the statutory body charged with overseeing the country’s electronic media, has criticised the broadcast media’s
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New evidence of ancient lake on Mars
A NASA orbiter flying around Mars is showing evidence of an ancient underground-fed lake at the bottom of a crater,
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Bulgaria Finance Ministry denies information request on civil servants’ bonuses
Bulgaria’s Finance Ministry has denied a request filed under the Access to Public Information Act to disclose any data on
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