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Year: 2013

Europe 

Yanukovych asks Ukraine for understanding, Tymoshenko goes on hunger strike

November 26, 2013November 26, 2013 Katya Gorchinskaya of The Kyiv Post Ukraine

Five days after demonstrations started all over Ukraine, prompted by the government’s rejection of a political and free trade deal

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Bulgaria 

Bulgarian Economy Minister defensive over Westinghouse promise

November 25, 2013December 11, 2013 Independent Balkan News Agency energy, nuclear

Mere days after returning from a trip to the US, during which he met representatives of several corporations to discuss

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Perspectives 

Comment: Bulgarian authorities flounder to regain initiative on refugee issue

November 25, 2013 Independent Balkan News Agency

When it comes to the refugee issue, Bulgaria’s government increasingly resembles some sort of frenetic Keystone Kops knockabout in the

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Europe 

Ukraine protesters clash with police over EU agreement

November 25, 2013November 26, 2013 VOANews Ukraine

Police in Ukraine fired teargas at pro-Europe protesters as they held a second day of demonstrations against the government’s decision

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Bulgaria 

Bulgaria’s road agency warns motorists to switch to snow tyres

November 25, 2013February 11, 2014 The Sofia Globe staff

Bulgaria’s Road Infrastructure Agency said on November 25 that motorists in the country should be prepared to use snow tyres

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Business 

Bulgaria’s competition watchdog fines electricity distributor 1M leva

November 25, 2013November 25, 2013 The Sofia Globe staff energy

Bulgaria’s competition regulator has fined electricity distribution firm Energo-Pro 1.03 million leva for alleged abuse of its market position. The

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Bulgaria 

Presidential send-off for Bulgaria’s Antarctic mission

November 25, 2013November 25, 2013 The Sofia Globe staff Rossen Plevneliev

Bulgaria’s Antarctic mission, set to depart for the Southern Hemisphere in early December, got its traditional send-off at the presidency

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Leisure 

Aerosmith gig in Sofia announced for May 2014

November 25, 2013 The Sofia Globe staff

Four years after the “bad boys of Boston” nearly broke up, Aerosmith will finally make their way to Sofia as

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Europe 

Samaras stronger after Merkel meeting in Berlin

November 25, 2013 Independent Balkan News Agency Greece

German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schauble expressed his respect for the problems Greece had to overcome as part of the country’s

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