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Day: January 30, 2014

Bulgaria 

PR deal adds pressure on Bulgaria’s socialist leader

January 30, 2014February 10, 2014 The Sofia Globe staff Sergei Stanishev

The past six months have presented few opportunities for Bulgarian socialist leader Sergei Stanishev to score PR victories, either at

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Leisure 

Film review: Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit

January 30, 2014May 10, 2024 Andre Crous of The Prague Post

With cooperation between Russia and the West still mostly taboo, despite the détente that was on the horizon two decades

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Leisure 

Film review: August: Osage County

January 30, 2014January 30, 2014 Andre Crous of The Prague Post

August in Osage County can be scorching — with temperatures in the 90s (mid-30s in degrees Celsius) — but even

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Bulgaria 

Student protesters who occupied Sofia University say they will sue rector for slander

January 30, 2014 The Sofia Globe staff Peevski protests

The group of student anti-government protesters who carried out the second short-lived “occupation” of the central campus of Sofia University

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Bulgaria 

Panagyurishte treasure is state property, Bulgaria’s Supreme Administrative Court rules

January 30, 2014February 11, 2014 The Sofia Globe staff

The Panagyurishte treasure is state property, a seven-member panel of Bulgaria’s Supreme Administrative Court has ruled, rejecting an appeal lodged

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Europe 

Samaras: ‘Parliamentary elections in Greece in 2016’

January 30, 2014January 30, 2014 Independent Balkan News Agency Greece

Greek prime minister Antonis Samaras, in a speech to the parliamentary group of the governing party New Democracy, set the

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Bulgaria 

Bad weather causes continued traffic disruption in north-eastern Bulgaria

January 30, 2014February 10, 2014 The Sofia Globe staff

Traffic disruptions continued on January 30 in north-eastern Bulgaria, the area affected the worst by the snowstorms earlier this week,

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Bulgaria 

Bulgarian Parliament rejects far-right Ataka’s anti-gay law

January 30, 2014February 10, 2014 Independent Balkan News Agency Volen Siderov

Amendments to Bulgaria’s Penal Code proposed by ultra-nationalist Ataka party leader Volen Siderov that would have imposed jail and huge

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Bulgaria 

New Penal Code controversy: Numismatists and antique dealers are rattled

January 30, 2014January 31, 2014 The Sofia Globe staff

The Bulgarian Socialist Party government’s proposed new Penal Code has lurched into yet another controversy, this time by upsetting coin

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