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Day: April 15, 2014

Sport 

Dimitrov survives late scare to win Monte-Carlo opener

April 15, 2014April 15, 2014 The Sofia Globe staff Grigor Dimitrov

Bulgaria’s Grigor Dimitrov was forced to dig deep to avoid a first-round exit at the Monte-Carlo Masters against Spaniard Marcel

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Bulgaria 

Bulgarian MPs overturn presidential veto on Audit Office bill

April 15, 2014April 30, 2014 The Sofia Globe staff Rossen Plevneliev

Bulgarian Parliament voted on April 15 to overturn President Rossen Plevneliev’s veto on the amendments to the law regulating the

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Bulgaria 

Bulgaria Ombudsman asks Constitutional Court to scrap data retention provisions

April 15, 2014April 17, 2014 The Sofia Globe staff

Bulgaria’s Ombudsman Konstantin Penchev said on April 15 that he has asked the country’s Constitutional Court to scrap the provisions

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Bulgaria 

Outrage in Bulgaria after political parties abuse identity numbers to register

April 15, 2014April 15, 2014 The Sofia Globe staff

Investigations have been promised following revelations that some political parties in Bulgaria fraudulently used the official personal identity numbers of

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Bulgaria 

Bulgarian gang of credit card fraudsters bust

April 15, 2014April 15, 2014 The Sofia Globe staff

An investigation lasting more than a year into an organised group of Bulgarian criminals committing credit card fraud has been

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Bulgaria 

Russia’s ‘provocative’ flights over Black Sea continue to cause tensions

April 15, 2014April 15, 2014 Independent Balkan News Agency Russia, Ukraine

Bulgaria’s defence minister has complained that Russia military aircrafts are continuing to carry out provocative reconnaissance flights close to Bulgaria’s

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Europe 

Obama, Putin talk as separatists tighten grip on eastern Ukraine

April 15, 2014 VOANews Russia, Ukraine

Pro-Russia demonstrators on Monday defied a government deadline to vacate occupied buildings in exchange for amnesty, as Ukraine’s interim president

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Europe 

Romanian PM threatens criminal complaint against president

April 15, 2014 Independent Balkan News Agency Romania

Romanian prime minister Victor Ponta said on April 14 that his social democrat party PSD would file a complaint against

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a fanned-out sheaf of euro notes
Business 

National Bank of Greece shares plummet as capital increase plan goes ahead

April 15, 2014 Independent Balkan News Agency Greece

National Bank of Greece (NBG) shares plummeted 12.13 per cent on April 14 as plans for the bank’s capital increase

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