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Year: 2013

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Bulgaria falls in 2013 World Press Freedom Index

January 30, 2013May 22, 2013 The Sofia Globe staff

Bulgaria has dropped seven places to rank 80th in the 2013 World Press Freedom Index compiled by Reporters Without Borders.

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Business 

Three companies receive German-Bulgarian Chamber of Commerce awards

January 30, 2013January 30, 2013 The Sofia Globe staff

Lufthansa Technik, Liebherr and Winterhalder received awards at the annual German economy gala organised by the German-Bulgarian Chamber of Commerce

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Bulgaria Business News 

Real estate prices in Bulgaria ‘to rise in spring’ – report

January 30, 2013 The Sofia Globe staff

Against a background of a 40 per cent decrease in sales of residential buildings in Bulgaria from 2008 to date,

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Bulgaria Leisure News 

Bulgaria will give 3.5M leva to Valley of Thracian Kings tourism and archaeology project, Finance Minister says

January 30, 2013June 2, 2013 The Sofia Globe staff Simeon Dyankov

Bulgaria’s Cabinet will contribute three and a half million leva (about 1.75 million euro) towards a tourism and archaeological project

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International tourism rebounding from global economic crisis, UN World Tourism Organisation says

January 30, 2013 The Sofia Globe staff

In spite of lingering economic instability because of the global financial crisis, international tourism increased robustly over the past year

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Business Europe News 

To pay or not to pay Gazprom, that’s the $7 billion question

January 30, 2013May 22, 2013 Jakub Parusinski of the Kyiv Post energy

With Russia sticking Ukraine with a $7 billion bill for not purchasing enough of its above market-priced natural gas last

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Business Europe News 

Facts about Russian Gazprom’s $7 billion bill to Ukraine’s Naftogaz

January 30, 2013May 22, 2013 Katya Gorchinskaya of The Kyiv Post energy

Just hours before Ukraine signed a $10 billion deal with Royal Dutch Shell on Jan. 24 to extract shale gas

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News World 

US senate confirms John Kerry as secretary of state

January 30, 2013January 30, 2013 Michael Bowman of VOANews

The U.S. Senate has voted 94 to 3 to confirm one of its own, Massachusetts Senator John Kerry, as secretary

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Bulgaria News 

European partners appreciate Bulgaria’s fiscal discipline, Borissov tells AmCham

January 29, 2013January 29, 2013 The Sofia Globe staff

Prime Minister Boiko Borissov, addressing a January 29 2013 American Chamber of Commerce in Bulgaria lunch audience, praised the performance

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