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Month: February 2014

World 

What’s next for Sochi’s $50 billion in facilities?

February 24, 2014February 24, 2014 James Brooke VOA Moscow Bureau Chief Russia, Sochi Olympics

This is Russia’s semi-tropical southern corner, where you can ski in the morning and swim in the afternoon – in

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Bulgaria 

Row in Bulgaria over cost of fence at Turkish border

February 24, 2014 Independent Balkan News Agency Turkey

The cost of 9.6 million leva for a fence at Bulgaria’s border with Turkey to keep out would-be refugees has

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Business 

‘Third Platform’ to be discussed at IDC Predictions 2014 conference in Sofia

February 24, 2014May 10, 2024 The Sofia Globe staff

IT industry analysts are talking — for the third year — about the industry’s remarkable shift to its “Third Platform”

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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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Perspectives 

Will Putin try to split Ukraine?

February 22, 2014May 10, 2024 James Brooke VOA Moscow Bureau Chief Russia, Ukraine

Ukraine’s President Viktor Yanukovych has fled the presidential palace and the nation’s capital, taking refuge in his hometown of Donetsk.

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