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Year: 2013

Europe 

Incumbent leads race for Moscow mayor

September 8, 2013 VOANews Russia

Kremlin-backed incumbent Sergei Sobyanin is leading in Sunday’s vote which will decide whether he will remain the mayor of Moscow.

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Bulgaria 

Bulgarian Socialist Party reaffirms determination that Belene nuclear power station should be built

September 8, 2013February 11, 2014 Independent Balkan News Agency Belene

Bulgarian Socialist Party leader Sergei Stanishev has reaffirmed the determination of his party, currently in power, that the Belene nuclear

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Bulgaria 

Syrian refugees in Bulgaria: Hunger strikes, fundraising and tough times

September 8, 2013February 11, 2014 The Sofia Globe staff Syrian refugees

Syrian refugees in Bulgaria fleeing the violent conflagration in their own country are not having it easy as hosting facilities

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Europe 

Moscow votes for new mayor

September 8, 2013February 11, 2014 VOANews Russia

Voters in Russia’s capital are going to the polls to choose a mayor.Kremlin-backed incumbent Sergei Sobyanin is widely expected to

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Bulgaria 

February ‘protest leader’ gets own show on News7

September 8, 2013September 8, 2013 The Sofia Globe staff

One of the prominent faces of the February 2013 “cost-of-living” protests that led to the resignation of Boiko Borissov as

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Sport 

Tokyo chosen by IOC to host 2020 Olympics

September 7, 2013February 11, 2014 The Sofia Globe staff

Tokyo is to host the 2020 Summer Olympics, the International Olympic Committee decided on September 7 2013. It beat Turkey’s

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Perspectives 

Bulgaria’s government: 100 days of isolation

September 6, 2013May 10, 2024 Clive Leviev-Sawyer

As the Bulgarian Socialist Party government marked 100 days in office on September 5, there were criticisms of all that

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Perspectives 

Russia piles pressure on former Soviet satellites to drop EU aspirations

September 5, 2013September 5, 2013 Alex Bivol Moldova, Russia, Ukraine

As the Vilnius summit of EU’s Eastern Partnership draws nearer, at which several former Soviet states are expected to sign

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Leisure 

Film review: We’re the Millers

September 5, 2013September 5, 2013 Raymond Johnston of The Prague Post

Now that marijuana is slowly becoming legalized in parts of the US, it stands to reason that marijuana comedies will

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