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Day: September 30, 2013

Europe 

Turkey unveils democratisation plan

September 30, 2013September 30, 2013 Dorian Jones of VOANews Turkey

Turkish prime minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan has announced a package of reforms aimed at strengthening democracy and keeping on track

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Business 

Apple dethrones Coca-Cola as world’s most valuable brand

September 30, 2013 VOANews

Apple has unseated Coca-Cola as the most valuable brand in the world for 2013, according to Interbrand, a commercial consulting

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Europe 

European Parliament announces 2013 Sakharov Prize finalists

September 30, 2013 The Sofia Globe staff

Belarusian political prisoners Ales Bialatski, Eduard Lobau and Mykola Statkevich, US spying whistleblower Edward Snowden and Pakistani campaigner for girls’

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Perspectives 

Is crackdown on Greenpeace part of Russia’s new Cold War in the Arctic?

September 30, 2013May 10, 2024 James Brooke VOA Moscow Bureau Chief Russia

SALEKHARD, RUSSIA — Icy blasts of water greeted Greenpeace protesters climbing Russia’s lone offshore oil platform in the Arctic. Russia’s Coast

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Bulgaria 

Bulgaria’s Health Ministry to begin immunising refugee children

September 30, 2013February 11, 2014 The Sofia Globe staff Syrian refugees

Bulgaria’s Health Ministry said on September 30 that it was to begin immunizing refugee children against eight infectious diseases, an

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Bulgaria 

Who moved our cheese? Tons go missing from Bulgaria’s State Reserve

September 30, 2013September 30, 2013 The Sofia Globe staff

Nearly 35 tons of cheese are missing from the warehouse of Bulgaria’s State Reserve and War-Time Stocks State Agency in

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Bulgaria 

Facebook hoaxes and Facebook hacking: Bulgaria’s online wars

September 30, 2013September 30, 2013 The Sofia Globe staff Boiko Borissov, Peevski protests

The Facebook page of Boiko Borissov, leader of Bulgaria’s centre-right former ruling party, was hacked on September 30, the second

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Bulgaria 

The strange saga of Ataka’s visit to Brussels

September 30, 2013February 11, 2014 Independent Balkan News Agency

According to a new poll by the Afis agency, Bulgaria’s most unpopular politician is Volen Siderov, leader of ultra-nationalist party

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Europe 

France’s double standards official discourse angers Romania

September 30, 2013September 30, 2013 Independent Balkan News Agency Romania

The vacillating position of the French ruling socialists on Romania’s and Bulgaria’s Schengen accession, ranging from utter support for a

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