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Day: February 26, 2014

Europe 

Arseniy Yatseniuk nominated to lead new government as Ukraine prime minister

February 26, 2014 The Kyiv Post Ukraine

Leaders of the EuroMaidan revolution that toppled Viktor Yanukovych as president took the stage of Kyiv’s Independence Square on February

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Bulgaria 

Bulgarian President says he will veto Electoral Code

February 26, 2014February 28, 2014 The Sofia Globe staff Rossen Plevneliev

Bulgarian President Rossen Plevneliev said on February 26 that he would veto parts of the new Electoral Code, approved by

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Bulgaria 

Sofia City Court jails man for three and a half years for threatening to kill Ahmed Dogan

February 26, 2014February 28, 2014 The Sofia Globe staff Ahmed Dogan

Sofia City Court has sentenced Oktai Enimehmedov, the man seen pointing a gas pistol at the head of Ahmed Dogan

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Bulgaria 

Prosecutor-General orders tax investigation of Peevski, Vassilev and Barekov

February 26, 2014February 28, 2014 The Sofia Globe staff Peevski protests

The National Revenue Agency is to conduct full tax audits of Delyan Peevski, Tsvetan Vassilev and Nikolai Barekov in response

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Europe 

Tensions mount in Ukraine’s Crimea

February 26, 2014February 27, 2014 VOANews Ukraine

Pro-Russia demonstrators and those supporting Ukraine’s new pro-Western interim leaders confronted each other in the southern city of Simferopol on

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Perspectives 

The politics of power over Bulgaria’s parliament

February 26, 2014February 27, 2014 Clive Leviev-Sawyer

The political arithmetic that could decide the future of Bulgaria’s 42nd National Assembly has been changed by the entry of

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Bulgaria 

Bulgarian MPs overturn presidential veto on amendments to drugs law

February 26, 2014February 26, 2014 The Sofia Globe staff

Bulgaria’s Parliament voted on February 26 to overturn the presidential veto on a bill of amendments to the drugs law

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Bulgaria 

Bulgarian Parliament rejects proposal for probe into spending on fence at Turkish border

February 26, 2014February 27, 2014 Independent Balkan News Agency Turkey

Bulgaria’s National Assembly rejected a proposal by centre-right opposition party GERB to set up a special committee to investigate spending

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Europe 

Gazprom agrees to sell gas to Greece’s DEPA at reduced price

February 26, 2014 Independent Balkan News Agency energy, Greece

Greek gas company DEPA has reached an agreement with Russia’s Gazprom on a 15 per cent price cut on the

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