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Year: 2013

News World 

UN begins commemorations ahead of International Holocaust Remembrance Day

January 13, 2013January 14, 2013 The Sofia Globe staff

Genocide, anti-Semitism and Islamophobia, the responsibility to protect, the conflict in Syria and the courage to do what is right

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Will ‘Reset’ in US-Russia relations continue?

January 13, 2013January 14, 2013 Andre de Nesnera of VOANews

President Barack Obama has made better relations with Russia a cornerstone of his foreign policy. During his first administration, the

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Europe News 

Hungarian opposition demand Fidesz party expel founder member over racist article

January 13, 2013January 14, 2013 The Budapest Times

“A significant part of Gypsies is not fit for coexistence and is not fit to live amongst people. This part

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Bulgaria News 

Bulgarian criminal Georgiev extradited from UK to serve sentence

January 13, 2013January 14, 2013 The Sofia Globe staff

Bulgarian national Tihomir “The Boxer” Georgiev was extradited from the United Kingdom to Bulgaria, arriving on January 12 2013, the

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News World 

Scientists find Milky Way’s spine

January 13, 2013January 14, 2013 Rosanne Skirble of VOANews

Scientists have announced the discovery of a spine-like structure within the Milky Way that might help explain the dynamics of

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Bulgaria News 

Controversy hits Sofia nominations for electoral college to choose Bulgarian Orthodox Church Patriarch

January 13, 2013 The Sofia Globe staff

Serious controversy overshadowed the process of nominations by the Sofia diocese of the Bulgarian Orthodox Church of members of the

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Europe News 

Former PM Zeman and foreign minister Schwarzenberg go to second round in Czech presidential election

January 12, 2013January 12, 2013 The Sofia Globe staff

Former prime minister and former social democrat party leader Miloš Zeman and foreign minister Karel Schwarzenberg are headed for the

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Perspectives 

Editorial: Bombing out

January 11, 2013 Clive Leviev-Sawyer

This is an election year in Bulgaria and campaigning is sure to include the aggressive and the bizarre – but

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Bulgaria News 

Two-thirds of Bulgarians to vote yes in January 2013 nuclear referendum – poll

January 11, 2013January 11, 2013 The Sofia Globe staff

About two-thirds of Bulgarians polled by the Sova Harris agency said that they would vote yes in a national referendum

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