PR deal adds pressure on Bulgaria’s socialist leader
The past six months have presented few opportunities for Bulgarian socialist leader Sergei Stanishev to score PR victories, either at
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Day: January 30, 2014
Film review: Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit
With cooperation between Russia and the West still mostly taboo, despite the détente that was on the horizon two decades
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Film review: August: Osage County
August in Osage County can be scorching — with temperatures in the 90s (mid-30s in degrees Celsius) — but even
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Student protesters who occupied Sofia University say they will sue rector for slander
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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Panagyurishte treasure is state property, Bulgaria’s Supreme Administrative Court rules
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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Samaras: ‘Parliamentary elections in Greece in 2016’
Greek prime minister Antonis Samaras, in a speech to the parliamentary group of the governing party New Democracy, set the
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Bad weather causes continued traffic disruption in north-eastern Bulgaria
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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Bulgarian Parliament rejects far-right Ataka’s anti-gay law
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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New Penal Code controversy: Numismatists and antique dealers are rattled
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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