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Day: September 2, 2013

Bulgaria 

Bulgaria’s Finance Ministry appoints new Customs Agency chief

September 2, 2013February 11, 2014 The Sofia Globe staff

Bulgaria’s Finance Ministry said on September 2 that Kiril Zhelev has been appointed director of the Customs Agency. He replaces

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Bulgaria 

Bulgarian historians protest state archives reshuffle

September 2, 2013 The Sofia Globe staff Dossier Commission

Historians and researchers have protested the decision by the Bulgarian Cabinet to fire state archives agency director Martin Ivanov and

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Bulgaria 

Bulgaria’s Parliament to debate Syria crisis

September 2, 2013February 11, 2014 Independent Balkan News Agency Syrian refugees

Bulgaria’s Parliament will hold a debate on the crisis on Syria, it emerged a day after head of state President

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Bulgaria 

Bulgarian archaeologists find ‘twin’ of Sozopol ‘vampire’ at Perperikon

September 2, 2013 The Sofia Globe staff archaeology

Archaeologists working on Bulgaria’s Perperikon site have found the skeleton of a male buried with a ploughshare in its chest,

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Europe 

EC’s Barroso, in Rosh Hashanah message, pledges opposition to anti-Semitism

September 2, 2013September 2, 2013 The Sofia Globe staff

In a letter to European Jewry ahead of Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish New Year 5774 that begins at sunset on

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