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Month: February 2013

Bulgaria News 

Bulgarian President to name parliamentary election date on February 28, and other stories

February 27, 2013February 27, 2013 The Sofia Globe staff

Bulgaria’s continuing political crisis continued to unfold on February 27, with episodes through the day ranging from formal ritual to

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Bulgaria News 

Bulgarian Patriarch Neofit rejects reports he will join nationwide protest on March 3

February 27, 2013February 27, 2013 The Sofia Globe staff

The new Patriarch of the Bulgarian Orthodox Church, Neofit, has rejected reports in the mass-circulation media that he will join

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Bulgaria News 

Socialists to offer Bulgarian people radical change, Stanishev says

February 27, 2013May 27, 2013 The Sofia Globe staff Sergei Stanishev

The Bulgarian Socialist Party will present to people a programme for radical change to create a social and democratic Bulgaria,

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Bulgaria Business News 

Bulgarian prosecutors, tax authorities investigate electricity distribution companies

February 27, 2013May 22, 2013 The Sofia Globe staff energy

Three teams of prosecutors and National Revenue Agency (NRA) inspectors were sent to the headquarters of Bulgaria’s three privately-owned electricity

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Bulgaria News 

Investigations continue into Borissov’s allegation that Dogan ordered his murder

February 27, 2013February 27, 2013 The Sofia Globe staff

Bulgaria’s State Agency for National Security is continuing its investigation into the allegation by Boiko Borissov that veteran Bulgarian Turkish

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Europe News 

Yanukovych demands reforms from government

February 27, 2013May 27, 2013 Svitlana Tuchynska of The Kyiv Post Ukraine

A day after returning home from the EU-Ukraine summit in Brussels, President Viktor Yanukovych instructed his government to ensure that

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Bulgaria News Perspectives 

The ins and outs of Siderov’s stunts

February 27, 2013May 27, 2013 Clive Leviev-Sawyer Volen Siderov

Volen Siderov, leader of Bulgaria’s ultra-nationalist Ataka minority party, appears determined to carve himself a place in the public eye

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Bulgaria News 

Bulgarian Cabinet meeting postponed because of PM Borissov’s health problems

February 27, 2013May 27, 2013 The Sofia Globe staff Boiko Borissov

A meeting of Bulgaria’s Cabinet that had been scheduled for February 27 2013 has been postponed by a day because

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Bulgaria News 

Bulgarian Orthodox Church Metropolitan Joseph, of the US, Canada and Australia, resigns

February 26, 2013May 27, 2013 Clive Leviev-Sawyer Bulgarian Orthodox Church

The Bulgarian Orthodox Church Metropolitan of the United States, Canada and Australia, Joseph, has submitted his resignation to the Holy

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