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Day: September 13, 2013

Bulgaria 

Asylum-seekers protest at shelter in Bulgaria

September 13, 2013 The Sofia Globe staff

As a steady stream of refugees from Syria continued to enter Bulgaria, which is striving to come up with additional

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Business 

Bulgarian PM says hopeful for ‘minimum damages’ from Belene lawsuit

September 13, 2013 The Sofia Globe staff Belene, Plamen Oresharski

Bulgarian Prime Minister Plamen Oresharski said on September 13 that he was confident that Bulgaria’s legal counsel “will do everything

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Business 

Bulgarian financial watchdog asks prosecutors to investigate former ministers

September 13, 2013 The Sofia Globe staff

The chairperson of Bulgaria’s Financial Supervision Commission (FSC), Stoyan Mavrodiev, has said that the regulator has asked prosecutors to investigate

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Bulgaria 

Bulgarian anti-government protests reach third month on September 14

September 13, 2013September 13, 2013 Independent Balkan News Agency Peevski protests

As Bulgaria heads for the autumn of 2013, after three months of protests demanding the resignation of the Bulgarian Socialist

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Europe 

Controversy over European Parliament vote on visa requirements

September 13, 2013February 11, 2014 The Sofia Globe staff European Parliament, Macedonia, Romania, Serbia

The European Parliament has approved revisions of visa regulations seen in some quarters as opening the way for reimposing visa

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Bulgaria 

Bulgaria’s proposed electoral code reforms omit changing electoral system

September 13, 2013February 11, 2014 The Sofia Globe staff Peevski protests

A draft proposed new electoral code produced by a parliamentary committee dominated by the Bulgarian Socialist Party would keep the

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Europe 

Greece steps up efforts to attract foreign investors

September 13, 2013 Independent Balkan News Agency Greece

Russian tycoon Dmitry Rybolovlev (photo) held talks on September 12 2013 with Greek deputy minister of development and competition, Notis

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Perspectives Sport 

Russia’s anti-gay law tests Olympic tenets

September 13, 2013February 6, 2014 David Byrd of VOANews Russia, Sochi Olympics

The Winter Olympic Games in Sochi, Russia, are less than six month months away.  But a controversy over a Russian

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russian president vladimir putin
World 

Social media erupts over Putin article

September 13, 2013February 11, 2014 VOANews Russia

Social media erupted with criticism after Russian President Vladimir Putin appealed in a New York Timesarticle to the American people for support

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