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Year: 2013

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Czech media: government urged to help CEZ in Bulgaria

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

Czech Republic’s president-elect Miloš Zeman has criticised the country’s cabinet for not doing enough to defend the interests of state-owned

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Bulgaria News Sport 

Bulgaria expects to miss Euro 2020 nomination deadlines

February 22, 2013 The Sofia Globe staff

Bulgaria’s odds of hosting football matches as part of the Euro 2020 football championship have become a bystander victim of

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Bulgaria News 

Bulgarian Parliament makes appointments to Constitutional Court, asset forfeiture commission

February 22, 2013May 22, 2013 The Sofia Globe staff judiciary

Bulgaria’s Parliament voted on February 22 to appoint Grozdan Iliev to the Constitutional Court, as well as fill the three

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Bulgaria News 

Bulgarian President Plevneliev to meet leaders of parliamentary groups for talks on future government, elections

February 22, 2013February 22, 2013 Clive Leviev-Sawyer

Bulgarian President Rossen Plevneliev was scheduled to hold a meeting with leaders of all parliamentary groups at 2pm on February

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The cathedral church of Alexander Nevsky in the Bulgarian capital city Sofia
Bulgaria News 

Bulgarian Orthodox Church heads for high noon in election of new Patriarch

February 22, 2013February 22, 2013 Clive Leviev-Sawyer

If all goes according to plan, at 11.45am on February 24, the bells of Sofia’s landmark Alexander Nevsky cathedral will

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Europe News World 

UN chief in talks with Greek foreign minister

February 22, 2013February 22, 2013 The Sofia Globe staff

United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and Greece’s foreign minister, Dimitris Avramopoulos, discussed prospects for a settlement in Cyprus, as well

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Europe News World 

Two arrested at Russian cathedral marking Pussy Riot stunt

February 22, 2013February 22, 2013 VOANews

Two women trying to mark the one-year anniversary of the Pussy Riot performance at a Moscow cathedral have been detained

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Business Europe News 

Fitch upgrades Poland’s outlook to positive

February 22, 2013February 22, 2013 The Warsaw Voice

Fitch Ratings has revised the Outlook on Poland’s Long-Term foreign and local currency Issuer Default Ratings (IDRs) to Positive from

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Leisure 

Film review: Flight

February 22, 2013February 22, 2013 Andre Crous of The Prague Post

In the first scene of Flight, the first live-action feature master filmmaker Robert Zemeckis has made in more than a

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