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Day: February 23, 2014

Europe 

Ukraine begins work on national unity government

February 23, 2014February 25, 2014 VOANews Ukraine

In a special session Sunday, Ukraine’s legislature voted to give the speaker of the Ukrainian assembly temporary presidential power. Oleksandr

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Sport 

Bulgaria handed tricky draw for Euro 2016

February 23, 2014February 24, 2014 The Sofia Globe staff

Bulgaria will face familiar foe Italy in its qualifying group H for the 2016 European football championships, with Croatia likely

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Bulgaria 

President Plevneliev: Visit to Sochi ‘not political’

February 23, 2014February 25, 2014 The Sofia Globe staff Rossen Plevneliev, Sochi Olympics

Bulgarian President Rossen Plevneliev, in Sochi for the final day of the 2014 Olympic Games, said that he did not

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Perspectives 

Of hearts and minds and media monopolies

February 23, 2014February 25, 2014 Clive Leviev-Sawyer Media, Peevski protests

Lyutvi Mestan, leader of the Movement for Rights and Freedoms, says that Delyan Peevski’s media do not constitute a monopoly

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Europe 

Tymoshenko: ‘Heroes will never die’

February 23, 2014February 24, 2014 The Kyiv Post Ukraine

Freed ex-Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko: “My dears, when I came to Kyiv I could not recognize Kyiv – burnt cars,

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