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Day: January 29, 2014

Perspectives 

Don’t underestimate Ukraine!

January 29, 2014January 29, 2014 James Brooke VOA Moscow Bureau Chief editors pick, Russia, Ukraine

In the late 1940s, the mortality rate for Soviet troops fighting Ukrainian insurgents in Western Ukraine was higher than the mortality

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Bulgaria 

Bulgarian President wants referendum on electoral law 2-in-1 with European Parliament elections

January 29, 2014February 10, 2014 The Sofia Globe staff Rossen Plevneliev

Bulgarian President Rossen Plevneliev announced on January 29 2014 that he would ask the National Assembly to agree to the

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Bulgaria 

Bulgarian Parliament cancels judiciary inspectorate chief election

January 29, 2014February 10, 2014 The Sofia Globe staff judiciary

Bulgaria’s Parliament voted on January 29 to cancel the election of a new head of the inspectorate to the Supreme

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Bulgaria 

Cabinet ministers to address Parliament on Strandzha construction controversy

January 29, 2014February 10, 2014 The Sofia Globe staff

A day after public protests in five Bulgarian cities against a five-member panel of the Supreme Administrative Court clearing the

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Bulgaria 

Bulgaria to open consulate-general in Erbil, Iraq

January 29, 2014January 29, 2014 The Sofia Globe staff Nikolai Mladenov

Bulgaria is to open a consulate-general in the Iraqi city of Erbil, which is also capital of the Iraqi Kurdistan

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Bulgaria 

Bulgarian government to face motion of no confidence over security sector

January 29, 2014 The Sofia Globe staff Boiko Borissov, Sergei Stanishev

Centre-right party GERB, Bulgaria’s parliamentary opposition party and also the single largest party in the 42nd National Assembly, said that

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Europe 

Serbia to hold early elections

January 29, 2014January 29, 2014 VOANews Serbia

Serbia’s president has dissolved parliament and called for early elections, in an effort to garner more popular support for economic

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Bulgaria 

Troublesome BSP MP Angelov – unfriended, or friends with the whole world?

January 29, 2014February 10, 2014 The Sofia Globe staff Sergei Stanishev, Syria, Ukraine

Strahil Angelov, the Bulgarian Socialist Party MP who caused uproar by visiting Syria and allegedly endorsing the Assad regime –

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Bulgaria 

Prosecutors in Bulgarian ‘radical Islam’ trial backtrack on charges

January 29, 2014January 29, 2014 The Sofia Globe staff

The “radical Islam” trial in the Bulgarian town of Pazardjik entered its final stage on January 29, with the prosecutors

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