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Day: July 28, 2014

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Business 

Gloom in retail trade major factor as Bulgarian business confidence drops in July 2014

July 28, 2014July 28, 2014 Independent Balkan News Agency macroeconomic indicators

Bulgaria’s business climate indicator fell by 3.2 percentage points month-on-month in July 2014 as managers in major industries lost confidence

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Bulgaria 

President, other parties congratulate Mikov on election as BSP leader

July 28, 2014 The Sofia Globe staff

President Rossen Plevneliev, as well as the leaders of Bulgaria’s largest parties, have congratulated Mihail Mikov on his election as

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Bulgaria 

Bulgarian parties grandstand on pre-election coalitions

July 28, 2014 Clive Leviev-Sawyer

As might be expected, most Bulgarian political parties will go it alone in their campaigns ahead of the country’s October

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People 

Bulgarian President confers awards on ambassadors

July 28, 2014July 28, 2014 The Sofia Globe staff

At a ceremony on July 28 2014, President Rossen Plevneliev conferred Bulgaria’s Madara Horseman medal, first degree, on four outgoing

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Europe 

US: Images prove Russia fired rockets into Ukraine

July 28, 2014July 28, 2014 VOANews Russia, Ukraine

United States officials have released satellite images (see below) that, they say, show that Russia has fired rockets against Ukrainian

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Europe 

MH17 crash investigators hampered by fighting in Ukraine

July 28, 2014July 28, 2014 Henry Ridgwell of VOANews Russia, Ukraine

A team of international crash investigators and police officers was forced to cancel a visit to the site of the

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