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Year: 2013

Bulgaria News 

Bulgarian Patriarch Neofit rejects reports he will join nationwide protest on March 3

February 27, 2013February 27, 2013 The Sofia Globe staff

The new Patriarch of the Bulgarian Orthodox Church, Neofit, has rejected reports in the mass-circulation media that he will join

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Bulgaria News 

Socialists to offer Bulgarian people radical change, Stanishev says

February 27, 2013May 27, 2013 The Sofia Globe staff Sergei Stanishev

The Bulgarian Socialist Party will present to people a programme for radical change to create a social and democratic Bulgaria,

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Bulgaria Business News 

Bulgarian prosecutors, tax authorities investigate electricity distribution companies

February 27, 2013May 22, 2013 The Sofia Globe staff energy

Three teams of prosecutors and National Revenue Agency (NRA) inspectors were sent to the headquarters of Bulgaria’s three privately-owned electricity

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Investigations continue into Borissov’s allegation that Dogan ordered his murder

February 27, 2013February 27, 2013 The Sofia Globe staff

Bulgaria’s State Agency for National Security is continuing its investigation into the allegation by Boiko Borissov that veteran Bulgarian Turkish

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Europe News 

Yanukovych demands reforms from government

February 27, 2013May 27, 2013 Svitlana Tuchynska of The Kyiv Post Ukraine

A day after returning home from the EU-Ukraine summit in Brussels, President Viktor Yanukovych instructed his government to ensure that

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The ins and outs of Siderov’s stunts

February 27, 2013May 27, 2013 Clive Leviev-Sawyer Volen Siderov

Volen Siderov, leader of Bulgaria’s ultra-nationalist Ataka minority party, appears determined to carve himself a place in the public eye

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Bulgaria News 

Bulgarian Cabinet meeting postponed because of PM Borissov’s health problems

February 27, 2013May 27, 2013 The Sofia Globe staff Boiko Borissov

A meeting of Bulgaria’s Cabinet that had been scheduled for February 27 2013 has been postponed by a day because

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Bulgaria News 

Bulgarian Orthodox Church Metropolitan Joseph, of the US, Canada and Australia, resigns

February 26, 2013May 27, 2013 Clive Leviev-Sawyer Bulgarian Orthodox Church

The Bulgarian Orthodox Church Metropolitan of the United States, Canada and Australia, Joseph, has submitted his resignation to the Holy

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Bulgarian Parliament to adopt special programme of urgent measures as country heads for early elections, President Plevneliev says

February 26, 2013May 27, 2013 The Sofia Globe staff Rossen Plevneliev

The way out of the current crisis is through ahead-of-term elections, Bulgaria’s Consultative Council on National Security, made up of

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