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Month: January 2013

Bulgaria Business News 

Eight companies get gongs at Bulgarian Investor of the Year awards

January 16, 2013January 17, 2013 The Sofia Globe staff

Eight companies received awards from Invest Bulgaria investment promotion agency on January 15 at the agency’s seventh annual awards gala.

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Bulgaria News 

Ataka’s Siderov assaulted me, Bulgarian reporter alleges

January 16, 2013January 16, 2013 The Sofia Globe staff

A Bulgarian journalist has laid a complaint with police alleging that Volen Siderov, leader of the ultra-nationalist Ataka party, assaulted

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Bulgaria News 

Children of Dune 2: Parliament’s committee probing high-level corruption to hear ex-PM Stanishev and former cabinet ministers on land swaps

January 16, 2013January 16, 2013 The Sofia Globe staff

The Bulgarian Parliament’s special committee investigating high-level corruption in recent years intends questioning former prime minister and opposition socialist leader

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Bulgaria Business Europe News 

New car sales in Bulgaria slightly up in 2012 year-on-year – unlike EU trend

January 16, 2013May 22, 2013 The Sofia Globe staff

New car sales in Bulgaria in 2012 were 1.6 per cent higher than in 2011, while overall the downtrend trend

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News Perspectives World 

Russia Watch: The march of Moscow’s silent majority?

January 16, 2013January 16, 2013 James Brooke VOA Moscow Bureau Chief

During my two-week vacation in the United States, American friends again and again looked at me intently, and then asked:

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Bulgaria News 

Bulgarian Cabinet approves change to role in ISAF mission in Afghanistan

January 16, 2013June 2, 2013 The Sofia Globe staff Nato

The Cabinet approved on January 16 2013 a proposal by Defence Minister Anyu Angelov on the transformation of Bulgaria’s role

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Bulgaria News 

Bulgaria’s State Agency for Child Protection investigating alleged abuse at children’s home

January 16, 2013 The Sofia Globe staff

The State Agency for Child Protection is investigating alleged abuse at a children’s home after an Italian media report but

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Bulgaria News 

Former Varna city councillor jailed for 10 years on organised crime charges

January 16, 2013January 16, 2013 The Sofia Globe staff

A former city councillor in Bulgaria’s Black Sea city of Varna has been jailed for 10 years after being found

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Bulgaria News 

Archaeology: Four clay and stone phalluses found linked to cult of Priapus, museum head says

January 16, 2013January 18, 2013 The Sofia Globe staff

Four ancient stone and clay phalluses, of varying size, have been found in archaeological excavations in the Bulgarian Black Sea

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