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Day: August 6, 2013

Bulgaria 

Bulgarian President to challenge eavesdropping bill at Constitutional Court

August 6, 2013August 22, 2013 The Sofia Globe staff Rossen Plevneliev

Bulgarian President Rossen Plevneliev said on August 6 that he will challenge the recent amendments to the Special Surveillance Means

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Business 

Bulgaria to delay digital broadcasting switchover

August 6, 2013August 6, 2013 The Sofia Globe staff

Bulgaria will not switch off analogue broadcasting of television signals at the September 1 deadline because of delays in public

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Leisure 

Bulgaria’s Albena offers tourists beachside lockboxes, library

August 6, 2013August 6, 2013 The Sofia Globe staff beaches

Bulgaria’s Black Sea resort of Albena, north of Varna, has been started offering its holidaymakers new beachside services, including lockboxes

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Sport 

Bulgaria’s football clubs demand cut of any Gazprom sponsorship money

August 6, 2013August 6, 2013 The Sofia Globe staff South Stream

Bulgaria’s top-flight football clubs plan to ask the Cabinet to divide any sponsorship money from Russian state-owned gas company Gazprom

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Business 

Bulgaria’s Nova Broadcasting Group expands online portfolio with DarikNet acquisition

August 6, 2013August 22, 2013 The Sofia Globe staff Media

Nova Broadcasting Group said on August 6 that it acquired 70 per cent in DarikNet, in a deal expected to

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Bulgaria 

All eyes on whether Bulgarian President will put a spoke in the wheels of socialist billion-leva budget tinkering

August 6, 2013August 22, 2013 Independent Balkan News Agency Rossen Plevneliev

By August 7, it should become clear whether Bulgarian President Rossen Plevneliev has decided to exercise his limited right of

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World 

Russia’s Navalny: From protests to prison to politics

August 6, 2013August 6, 2013 James Brooke VOA Moscow Bureau Chief Russia

Last year, Alexei Navalny led street rallies against Russian President Vladimir Putin. This year, President Putin pushed back. Navalny was

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Perspectives 

Georgia PM Bidzina Ivanishvili optimistic on Russia relations

August 6, 2013 James Brooke VOA Moscow Bureau Chief

On the eve of the fifth anniversary of the war between Russia and Georgia, the prime minister of Georgia extended

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Leisure 

Bourgas sand sculpture festival again a major tourist drawcard

August 6, 2013August 6, 2013 The Sofia Globe staff Bourgas

The latest year of the sand sculpture festival at a site near the north beach of the Black Sea city

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