Sofia City Court orders Dogan’s attacker to remain in custody
In a ruling on January 29 2013, Sofia City Court ordered Oktai Enimehmedov, the 25-year-old seen pointing a gas pistol
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Year: 2013
Bulgaria’s nuclear referendum question heads for Parliament after voter turnout exceeds threshold – just
Voter turnout in Bulgaria’s January 27 2013 referendum has scraped past the 20 per cent threshold for the question in
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Bulgaria high court rejects asset forfeiture suit against runaway ‘Galevi brothers’
Bulgaria’s Supreme Court of Cassation (SCC) ruled to return to prosecutors the suit to seize the assets of the “Galevi
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Bulgarian drug gang leader wounded in central Sofia shooting
Zlatomir Ivanov, who was sentenced to eight years in jail for organising a crime group to distribute drugs, was shot
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Europe does not know enough about what Bulgaria did to save Jews from Holocaust death camps, President Plevneliev says in Paris
Europe does not know what Bulgaria did to save Bulgarian Jews from Holocaust death camps, Bulgarian President Rossen Plevneliev said
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Bulgarian PM Borissov fires Education Minister, head of energy regulator
Bulgarian Prime Minister Boiko Borissov swung the axe on January 28 2013, dismissing Education Minister Sergei Ignatov in the wake
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Bulgaria reports gloomier business climate in January 2013
Bulgaria’s business climate indicator in January 2013 was 3.2 per cent percentage points lower than the December 2012 figure because
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Bulgarian regulator clears NBG, Eurobank units merger
Bulgaria’s Commission for Protection of Competition (CPC) said on January 28 that it approved the acquisition of EFG Eurobank Ergasias
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Flop or not? Official figures of turnout in Bulgaria’s nuclear referendum awaited
On the day after Bulgaria’s referendum on whether to build a new nuclear power station, the Central Election Commission was
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