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Day: July 19, 2013

Perspectives 

Bulgaria’s anti-government protests: To ‘fight on the beaches’?

July 19, 2013May 10, 2024 Clive Leviev-Sawyer Peevski protests

Members of Bulgaria’s Parliament are planning to forego the barricades for the beaches on their annual August summer holiday, escaping

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Bulgaria 

Bulgarian Parliament elects Vladimir Pisanchev as SANS director

July 19, 2013July 31, 2013 The Sofia Globe staff

Bulgaria’s Parliament elected Vladimir Pisanchev as director of the State Agency for National Security (SANS) on July 19, with 104

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Bulgaria 

President Plevneliev: Situation in Bulgaria ‘extraordinary’

July 19, 2013July 31, 2013 Independent Balkan News Agency Rossen Plevneliev

Bulgarian President Rossen Plevneliev, in his first interview with foreign media after more than a month of the anti-government protests

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Europe 

Electricity war started in Croatia

July 19, 2013July 19, 2013 Independent Balkan News Agency Croatia, energy

After Slovenian company GEN-I won a tender in June to supply the Croatian public administration with electricity, now the Croatian

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Europe 

European Commission warns Romania of incoherent financial plan

July 19, 2013July 19, 2013 Independent Balkan News Agency Romania

The European executive arm has warned Romania its plan drawn up with a view to access EU funds during the

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Europe 

Visiting German finance minister faces Greek protests

July 19, 2013 Selah Hennessy of VOANews Greece

Thousands of police officers lined the streets of Athens on Thursday as the German finance minister visited the Greek capital.

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Perspectives 

Russia Watch: Why will Obama visit Russia for a Putin summit?

July 19, 2013May 10, 2024 James Brooke VOA Moscow Bureau Chief

Why is Barack Obama planning to be in Moscow in early September for a two-day summit with Vladimir Putin? Mystery

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Leisure 

Film review: White House Down

July 19, 2013July 18, 2013 Andre Crous of The Prague Post

The latest film by blockbuster director Roland Emmerich is not bad at all. In it, the White House is invaded

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Leisure 

Film review: Behind the Candelabra

July 19, 2013July 18, 2013 Andre Crous of The Prague Post

Was there ever anybody quite as stereotypically gay as Liberace? The man with the tiny poodles, the sometimes purple wig,

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