Bulgaria’s ‘Reformist Bloc’ pursues the chimera of right-wing unity
Against the background of many weeks of protests against a Bulgarian Socialist Party government that its thousands of critics see
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Year: 2013
Romania tops EU real estate ownership rankings
Romania has the most real estate owners in Europe, with a rate going to as much as 96.6 per cent
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Bulgaria’s Varna holds first Kite Festival: Photos
Bulgaria’s Black Sea “capital” Varna held its first Kite Festival on August 17 2013. Organisers of the event, held at
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Books: The Last Bohemians
One of the most common sights in Prague in the 1990s was an expat sitting at a café with a
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Film Review: Lovelace
Linda Lovelace is well-known for only one thing: Deep Throat. The 1972 film that rocketed her to stardom was, however, only one
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Bulgarian MPs overturn Budget veto
Bulgaria’s Parliament voted on August 16 to overturn the veto imposed by President Rossen Plevneliev on the Budget revision. The
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Bussing in: Anatomy of a ‘spontaneous’ protest
It was inevitable that someone would give the game away about the “spontaneous” protest by a pro-government crowd outside Bulgaria’s
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Bulgaria’s political crisis: A tale of two protests, in photos
On the day that Bulgaria’s lawmakers overturned the presidential veto on the Budget revision, the National Assembly building, fittingly, found
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Tension in central Sofia as rival protest groups gather outside Parliament during Budget veto debate
Sofia mayor Yordanka Fandukova called for calm amid tensions in the centre of the Bulgarian capital city as rival protest
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