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Month: December 2013

Europe 

Lavrov says Russia will not interfere in Ukraine

December 4, 2013December 4, 2013 Scott Stearns of VOANews Russia, Ukraine

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov says Moscow will not interfere in the political unrest in neighboring Ukraine and says other

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Bulgaria 

Bulgaria has highest death rate in EU – official

December 4, 2013December 4, 2013 The Sofia Globe staff

Bulgaria has the highest mortality rate in the European Union, with infant mortality double the rate of the rest of

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Bulgaria 

Bulgarian Socialist Party MP in call to neuter commission disclosing communist State Security agents

December 4, 2013February 11, 2014 The Sofia Globe staff Dossier Commission

The head of the Bulgarian Parliament’s internal affairs committee, Atanas Merdzhanov of the Bulgarian Socialist Party, has said that he

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Bulgaria 

Oresharski’s backflip on blunder on threat to public servants taking part in anti-government protests

December 4, 2013February 11, 2014 The Sofia Globe staff Plamen Oresharski

Plamen Oresharski has gone into full reverse on his controversial statement on November 15 that people on the public payroll

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Bulgaria 

Bulgarian MPs approve first reading of Gambling Act amendments

December 4, 2013December 4, 2013 The Sofia Globe staff

Members of Bulgaria’s Parliament voted on December 4 2013 to approve the first reading of Gambling Act amendments that bring

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Business 

EC fines eight banks 1.71B euro for fixing interbank rates

December 4, 2013 The Sofia Globe staff European Commission

The European Commission said on December 4 that it fined eight international financial groups a total of 1.71 billion euro

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Europe 

Two Romanian former cabinet ministers jailed for treason and corruption

December 4, 2013 Independent Balkan News Agency Romania

Codrut Seres, Romania’s economy minister from 2004 to 2006, and Zsolt Nagy, telecommunications minister from 2004-2007 were sentenced on December 3

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Bulgaria 

TV investigation exposes illegal market in Bulgarian passports for migrants

December 4, 2013 Independent Balkan News Agency Syrian refugees

A hidden-camera investigation by local television station bTV has exposed an illegal market in selling Bulgarian identity documents and passports

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Business 

Bulgaria’s economy bounces back in Q3 2013

December 4, 2013February 11, 2014 The Sofia Globe staff macroeconomic indicators

Bulgaria’s economy recorded 0.5 per cent growth in the third quarter of the year, compared to the second quarter, the

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