Presidents of Bulgaria, Macedonia speak on ‘good neighbourliness’ agreement
Macedonia had surprisingly agreed to sign the 1999 good neighbourliness agreement with Bulgaria, daily Sega said, quoting statements by Bulgarian
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Month: May 2014
Macedonia: VMRO-DPMNE, BDI announce agreement on new government
The two largest parties in Macedonia, VMRO-DPMNE and Democratic Union for Integration (BDI) announced on May 10 2014 an agreement on the
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Deadly clashes in Mariupol raise tensions on eve of secession referendum in eastern Ukraine
Hordes of rowdy pro-Russian separatists ruled the industrial port city of Mariupol in Ukraine’s restive east on May 10, a
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Austria wins Eurovision 2014 – and Russia most definitely does not
Austria’s Conchita Wurst was voted the winner of the Eurovision Song Contest 2014 in Copenhagen on May 10 – on
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Ahead of breakaway vote, tensions remain high in eastern Ukraine
Violence is flaring and anger rising in eastern Ukraine, less than 24 hours before a controversial referendum calling for a
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Bulgaria’s European Parliament elections: 12 candidates named as former communist secret service agents
Twelve of the candidate MEPs in Bulgaria’s May 25 2014 European Parliament elections were agents of communist-era secret service State
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70 years after Holocaust, Poles work to revive Krakow Judaism
About an hour’s drive from the heart of darkness that was the Auschwitz death camp, there is a bright sunlit
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Film review: The Physician
A story about the dangers of religious extremism and the wonders of the Orient, The Physician is a 150-minute film
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Bulgaria’s European Parliament elections: Notebook, May 9
May 9 brought Europe Day to Bulgaria, and the beginning of a special two-week recess that members of the National
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