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Month: October 2013

Perspectives 

Putincare: Russia’s alternative to Obamacare

October 31, 2013 James Brooke VOA Moscow Bureau Chief Russia

With Obamacare dividing America, I thought it my patriotic duty to do a firsthand, between the hospital sheets, investigation of

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Business 

Gazprom launches work on South Stream in Bulgaria – from afar

October 31, 2013February 11, 2014 Alex Bivol energy, Plamen Oresharski, South Stream

Gazprom chief executive Alexey Miller and Bulgarian Prime Minister Plamen Oresharski launched the construction on the South Stream gas pipeline

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Europe 

European Commissioner Georgieva sketches scenarios for Syria

October 31, 2013February 11, 2014 The Sofia Globe staff European Commission, Syrian refugees

European humanitarian aid commissioner Kristalina Georgieva has sketched two likely scenarios for the way Syria is headed – either a

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Bulgaria 

Bulgarian student protests continue amid allegations of phone-tapping, threats

October 31, 2013October 31, 2013 The Sofia Globe staff Peevski protests

Student anti-government protests in Bulgaria demanding the resignation of Plamen Oresharski’s Cabinet entered their ninth day on October 31, with

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World 

Google ‘outraged’ by NSA spying reports

October 31, 2013October 31, 2013 VOANews

Internet search engines Google and Yahoo have expressed dismay over reports the U.S. National Security Agency secretly broke into their

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Europe 

EU unemployment flat at 11% in September

October 31, 2013October 31, 2013 The Sofia Globe staff Eurostat, macroeconomic indicators

The 28-member European Union ended September 2013 with 11 per cent unemployment, seasonally adjusted, unchanged for a fourth consecutive months,

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Bulgaria 

Kozloduy nuclear plant reactor taken offline again

October 31, 2013October 31, 2013 The Sofia Globe staff nuclear

Unit six at Bulgaria’s Kozloduy nuclear power station was taken offline again for a second time in three days on

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Bulgaria 

Bulgarian Red Cross volunteers organise activities for refugee children

October 31, 2013February 11, 2014 The Sofia Globe staff Syrian refugees

Bulgarian Red Cross volunteers started a programme involving interactive games, art classes and sport for refugee children on October 31

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Bulgaria 

Bulgarian government, BSP flounder to find way out of moratorium muddle

October 31, 2013February 11, 2014 The Sofia Globe staff

More than a week after Bulgaria’s Parliament approved a resolution proposed by ultra-nationalists Ataka to extend to 2020 the moratorium

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