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Month: January 2013

Bulgaria Business News 

Please do not adjust your screen: the bTV-Bulsatcom battle

January 11, 2013January 11, 2013 Clive Leviev-Sawyer

Conspiracy theories, appeals to European and Bulgarian national institutions, the inevitable satirical clip rewriting Adolf Hitler’s dialogue in the film

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Bulgaria News 

Family of five found dead in Sofia apartment

January 11, 2013 The Sofia Globe staff

A family of five was found dead in an apartment in the Gotse Delchev residential area of Sofia, police in

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Alexander Nevsky Cathedral, Sofia. Photo: Clive Leviev-Sawyer
Bulgaria News 

Bulgarian church to choose electoral college on January 13 to elect new Patriarch

January 11, 2013January 10, 2013 The Sofia Globe staff

The Bulgarian Orthodox Church is scheduled to name on January 13 its delegates to the electoral college that will elect

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Bulgaria News People 

Of archons, dossiers, forgiveness and the future Patriarch: An interview with Bulgarian Orthodox Church Metropolitan Joseph

January 11, 2013January 11, 2013 Dimitar Spasov and Momchil Metodiev

With some weeks to go to the election by a Bulgarian Orthodox Church electoral college of a new Patriarch, Metropolitan

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Europe News Perspectives 

Armenia 2013: Sargsyan’s Presidential election and beyond

January 10, 2013January 11, 2013 Clive Leviev-Sawyer

Amid all the uncertainties and difficulties facing Armenia, it appears to have the prospect of one certainty – that in

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Bulgaria Europe News Perspectives 

Bulgaria’s relations with Macedonia: Reset or reverse?

January 10, 2013June 2, 2013 Clive Leviev-Sawyer Bulgarian Jews, Macedonia

Bulgaria has underlined time and again that it wants a reset of relations with Macedonia, calling on Skopje to end

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Europe News Perspectives 

Georgia 2013 and the vilifying of Saakashvili

January 10, 2013January 10, 2013 Clive Leviev-Sawyer

If those behind a petition claimed to have a million signatures have their way, Georgian president Mikheil Saakashvili will step

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Europe News 

Voting in 2013 Czech Republic presidential election begins on January 11

January 10, 2013January 11, 2013 The Sofia Globe staff

On the eve of the first day of the Czech Republic’s first direct presidential elections on January 11 2013, two

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Europe News People 

Czechoslovakian transports of delight

January 10, 2013January 11, 2013 Brian McCulloch

One of the first major historical works into the formation of Czechoslovakia after World War 1, researched since the fall

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