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Month: January 2014

Business 

PC market in Central and Eastern Europe still struggling

January 30, 2014 The Prague Post

According to the preliminary results from International Data Corporation (IDC), PC shipments in Central and Eastern Europe totalled 6.3 million

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Europe 

Police bust international network of Romanian payment card fraudsters

January 30, 2014 The Sofia Globe staff Romania

Romanian and French law enforcement authorities, supported by the European Cybercrime Centre (EC3) at Europol, have successfully dismantled a Romanian

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Europe 

Ukrainian parliament passes measure offering amnesty to protesters

January 30, 2014January 30, 2014 VOANews Russia, Ukraine

Ukraine’s parliament has approved a measure offering amnesty to protesters arrested during anti-government demonstrations, but only if they abandon the

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Perspectives 

Don’t underestimate Ukraine!

January 29, 2014May 10, 2024 James Brooke VOA Moscow Bureau Chief 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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