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Year: 2013

Bulgaria 

At UN, Bulgarian President Plevneliev calls for lasting political solution to Syria crisis

September 24, 2013February 11, 2014 The Sofia Globe staff Rossen Plevneliev, Syria

A lasting political solution to the crisis in Syria should be found through the resumption of the Geneva negotiations process,

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Europe 

Pussy Riot member put in isolation after threat of hunger strike

September 24, 2013February 11, 2014 VOANews Russia

Russian authorities say they have moved a jailed member of the anti-Kremlin all-female punk band Pussy Riot to an isolation

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Europe 

Serbian Orthodox Church Patriarch opposes Belgrade Pride Parade

September 24, 2013February 11, 2014 Independent Balkan News Agency Serbia, Slovakia

Serbian Orthodox Church (SOC) Patriarch Irinej said that “nowadays nothing is so endangered as matrimony and family which are being

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World 

Comet ISON’s approach captured by amateur astronomers

September 24, 2013September 25, 2013 VOANews final frontier

Comet ISON was spotted and photographed by amateur astronomers as the highly- anticipated arrival of the icy space visitor nears.

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Bulgaria 

Bulgaria’s Constitutional Court to hear Peevski on October 8

September 24, 2013February 11, 2014 The Sofia Globe staff Peevski protests

Bulgaria’s Constitutional Court decided to call on Delyan Peevski – the man whose appointment as director of the State Agency

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Europe 

Merkel’s election triumph keeps up pressure on Greece

September 24, 2013 Independent Balkan News Agency Greece

Greece is on track to achieve a primary budget surplus this year, data released Monday shows. The country’s General Accounting

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Europe 

Golden Dawn’s paramilitary activity unfolds a series of terror and hate

September 24, 2013 Independent Balkan News Agency Greece

It was all in the Internet and especially in YouTube and the Greek government preferred silence over repressive action. It

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Sport 

Bulgaria plays Poland in European volleyball championship play-off

September 24, 2013September 24, 2013 The Sofia Globe staff

Bulgaria will face Poland in the play-off stage of the European men’s volleyball championship on September 24, with a spot

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Perspectives 

Russia Watch: Russia’s future in Central Asia – mall cop in a Chinese shopping center?

September 24, 2013September 24, 2013 James Brooke VOA Moscow Bureau Chief energy, Russia

Looking back 10 years from now, the most important news of Sept. 2013 may not be Moscow and Washington jousting

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