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Year: 2013

Bulgaria 

Approval rating of police in Bulgaria plummets – poll

December 20, 2013April 3, 2019 The Sofia Globe staff

The public approval rating in Bulgaria of the police has fallen 13 per cent since summer 2013, opinion survey agency

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World 

Putin pardons jailed tycoon Khodorkovsky

December 20, 2013February 11, 2014 VOANews Russia

Russian President Vladimir Putin has signed a decree to pardon jailed oil tycoon Mikhail Khodorkovsky, who has been in detention

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Business 

EU loses AAA rating from S&P

December 20, 2013February 11, 2014 The Sofia Globe staff

Credit ratings agency Standard&Poor’s said on December 20 that it cut the European Union’s supranational rating from AAA to AA+

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Europe 

Romania announces one billion euro investment in nuclear energy

December 20, 2013December 20, 2013 Independent Balkan News Agency energy, Romania

Romanian energy minister Constantin Nita announced the government will start a one billion euro investment in building a new type

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Europe 

Yanukovych dodges details on Russia deal

December 20, 2013 Oksana Grytsenko of The Kyiv Post Russia, Ukraine

Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych did not hide his joy when he boasted “definitely lucrative” deals that he reached with Russian

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Europe 

Putin: Pussy Riot, Greenpeace 30 and Khodorkovsky to go free

December 20, 2013 Raymond Johnston of The Prague Post Russia

Two jailed members of the Russian punk band Pussy Riot will be freed and 30 members of Greenpeace will be

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World 

Today’s cats traced to ancient China

December 20, 2013December 20, 2013 VOANews

Researchers in China and Missouri have traced the origins of today’s domesticated cat back 5,300 years to an ancient Neolithic Chinese agricultural village located

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Leisure 

Film review: Last Vegas

December 20, 2013December 20, 2013 Andre Crous of The Prague Post

There is but one reason to watch Last Vegas, and that is Mary Steenburgen. More or less doing away with

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Bulgaria 

Bulgaria’s Constitutional Court rules Peevski still an MP

December 19, 2013 The Sofia Globe staff Peevski protests, Rossen Plevneliev

Bulgaria’s Constitutional Court has ruled against a second challenge to dismiss controversial media magnate Delyan Peevski as a member of

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