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Day: June 24, 2014

Business 

Austria, Russia sign South Stream deal

June 24, 2014June 26, 2014 The Sofia Globe staff energy, South Stream

Austrian oil and gas company OMV and Russia’s Gazprom signed on June 24 an agreement to build a branch of

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Bulgaria 

Bulgaria floods: New torrential rains hit Dobrich

June 24, 2014 The Sofia Globe staff Varna, Varna floods

A new bout of torrential rain hit the Bulgarian town of Dobrich on the afternoon of June 24, five days

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Bulgaria 

Stanishev’s move to Brussels seen as ‘semi-abdication’, escape

June 24, 2014 The Sofia Globe staff Sergei Stanishev

The move by Bulgarian Socialist Party leader Sergei Stanishev to resign his seat as an MP to become a member

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Bulgaria 

Bulgarian prosecutors investigate new ‘murder plot’ in Peevski-Vassilev saga

June 24, 2014June 30, 2014 The Sofia Globe staff

The messy break-up of the business relationship between banker Tsvetan Vassilev and controversial MP Delyan Peevski continues to play itself

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Bulgaria 

Bulgaria’s anti-government Protest Network demands clarity on resignation of cabinet, election date

June 24, 2014 The Sofia Globe staff Peevski protests, Sergei Stanishev

Bulgaria’s anti-government Protest Network has written to Plamen Oresharski and the four parliamentary groups in the National Assembly, with a

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Bulgaria 

Bulgaria’s political crisis: Waiting game continues

June 24, 2014 The Sofia Globe staff Boiko Borissov, Sergei Stanishev

Planned consultations among Bulgaria’s political parties represented in the National Assembly did not go ahead on June 24, but could

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Bulgaria 

Bulgaria’s floods: Syrian refugees among volunteers in cleanup of Varna’s Asparouhovo area

June 24, 2014June 25, 2014 The Sofia Globe staff Syrian refugees, Varna, Varna floods

A group of Syrian refugees is among volunteers who have joined in cleaning up the Asparouvo area of Bulgaria’s Black

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Bulgaria 

Bulgaria’s annual wheat crop to drop up to 25% because of floods – agriculture minister

June 24, 2014 Independent Balkan News Agency Varna floods

About 35 700 hectares of farmland in Bulgaria have been affected by the floods that hit parts of the country

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Business 

Russia’s VTB not interested in Bulgarian bank CCB – report

June 24, 2014July 31, 2014 The Sofia Globe staff CCB affair

Russia’s Vneshtorgbank (VTB) banking group is not interested in participating in the recapitalisation of Bulgaria’s Corporate Commercial Bank (CCB), news

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