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Month: January 2013

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EU ambassador in Kyiv: Tymoshenko, Lutsenko among ‘biggest burdens’ for Ukraine

January 27, 2013January 28, 2013 Maryna Irkliyenko of the Kyiv Post

Jan Tombinski took up the post of European Union ambassador to Ukraine in September as Ukraine’s relations with the 27-nation

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Europe News 

Dave the Hero! Hungary’s Jobbik applauds EU referendum plan in UK

January 27, 2013January 28, 2013 The Budapest Times

British Prime Minister David Cameron may unwittingly have become a poster boy for Europe’s extreme right after promising a referendum

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Europe News World 

Nato says missiles operational on Turkey-Syria border

January 27, 2013June 2, 2013 VOANews Nato, Syria

Nato says the first of six missile defense batteries sent to Turkey to intercept possible rockets fired from Syria is

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Business Europe News World 

Davos World Economic Forum summit ends with new warnings on global economy

January 27, 2013June 2, 2013 VOANews IMF

International financial leaders have wrapped up the World Economic Forum meeting in Switzerland with warnings that much remains to be

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Bulgaria Europe News World 

Honour for rescuers of Jews as International Holocaust Remembrance Day 2013 marked – but concern at anti-Semitism in Europe

January 26, 2013March 10, 2016 Clive Leviev-Sawyer Bulgarian Jews

Those who risked their lives to save Jews and others from mass extermination in World War 2 are inspiration for

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Europe News 

National Geographic to air Smolensk crash documentary amid protests

January 26, 2013January 26, 2013 The Warsaw Voice

One of the episodes of the “Mayday” documentary series, to be shown on National Geographic Channel on January 27 2013,

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Europe News 

Social democrat former PM Miloš Zeman wins second round of Czech presidential elections, interim results show

January 26, 2013January 26, 2013 The Sofia Globe staff

Miloš Zeman, a social democrat former prime minister, was shown by interim results to have won the January 25 and

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Bulgaria News 

Sofia prosecutors lay fraud charges against two MPs from Dogan’s party

January 25, 2013 The Sofia Globe staff

The Sofia City Prosecutor’s Office has lodged at Sofia City fraud charges against two MPs for the Movement for Rights

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Bulgaria Business News Perspectives 

Bulgaria’s Belene referendum campaign sends political rivals into meltdown

January 25, 2013June 2, 2013 Alex Bivol Belene, Boiko Borissov, energy, Sergei Stanishev

If there was any doubt that Bulgaria’s referendum on the future development of nuclear energy was a proxy war between

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