Hungary sentences 92-year-old for war crimes
A court in Budapest has sentenced a 92 year-old former top communist official to more than five years in prison
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Month: May 2014
EU to sign major deal with Moldova on June 27
European Council President Herman Van Rompuy says the EU will sign a major economic and political agreement with Moldova on
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Rebel ambush near Kramatorsk kills seven Ukrainian paratroopers; one rebel dead
Armed pro-Russian rebels ambushed a Ukrainian military convoy transporting ammunition on the outskirts of the flashpoint city of Kramatorsk at
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Bulgaria’s competition watchdog accuses electricity distributors of unfair competition
Bulgaria’s Commission for Protection of Competition (CPC) became the latest state regulator to announce administrative proceedings against the country’s three
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Bulgaria’s European Parliament elections: Notebook, May 13
Bulgaria’s far-right ultra-nationalist party Ataka hardly is worth writing about in these European Parliament elections, given that Volen Siderov’s cohorts
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Bulgaria annual deflation down to 1.6% in April
Bulgaria’s consumer price index rose by 0.3 per cent in April 2014, pushing the year-on-year deflation figure to 1.6 per
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Half a million Bulgarians addicted to alcohol, World Health Organisation says
More than half a million Bulgarians are addicted to alcohol and almost half of these drink in such quantities that
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White House confirms Biden to visit Romania, Cyprus
The US administration confirmed on May 12 that vice president Joe Biden will arrive in Romania on May 20, hours after
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Bulgarian identity theft victim struggles to persuade authorities he is alive
A Bulgarian man has been trapped in a bureaucratic hell after falling victim to identity theft which led not only
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