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Month: July 2014

Leisure 

Film review: Boyhood

July 10, 2014July 10, 2014 Andre Crous of The Prague Post

Sprawling but not unwieldy, Richard Linklater’s Boyhood takes the eventful but not overly dramatized life of an ordinary teenager from

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Leisure 

Film review: Can a Song Save Your Life? (Begin Again)

July 10, 2014July 10, 2014 Andre Crous of The Prague Post

She is all about authenticity and giving the music industry the middle finger. She has some talent, but she is

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Bulgaria 

Violent storm hits Bulgaria’s Lovech, leaves 11 villages without electricity

July 10, 2014July 13, 2014 The Sofia Globe staff

In the latest blow from heavy weather in Bulgaria this summer, a violent storm broke over the town of Lovech

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Europe 

Nearly 50 servicemen killed since June 19; death toll reaches 223

July 10, 2014July 10, 2014 The Kyiv Post Russia, Ukraine

Ukraine’s recent military successes – the nation’s flag is now flying over Sloviansk and Kramatorsk in Donetsk Oblast – are

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Bulgaria 

EC opens five new infringement proceedings against Bulgaria

July 10, 2014July 13, 2014 The Sofia Globe staff European Commission

The European Commission said on July 10 that it opened five new infringement proceedings against Bulgaria, as part of its

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Bulgaria 

Sofia ranks 172nd out of 211 in list of most expensive cities for expatriates

July 10, 2014July 13, 2014 The Sofia Globe staff Sofia

Bulgaria’s capital city Sofia ranked 172nd in a list of 211 cities in the Mercer 2014 Cost of Living Survey.

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Business 

Revetas Capital buys City Center Sofia, plans more acquisitions – reports

July 10, 2014July 10, 2014 The Sofia Globe staff

Real estate investment fund Revetas Capital Advisors, which has acquired the Sofia City Center shopping mall in the Bulgarian capital

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Sport 

Bulgaria’s Pulev drops new doping hints ahead of Klitschko fight

July 10, 2014July 13, 2014 The Sofia Globe staff

Bulgarian boxer Koubrat Pulev, who will fight Ukrainian heavyweight champion Wladimir Klitschko for the IBF title in September, has once

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Bulgaria 

Bulgarian capital Sofia counts cost of property damage after hailstorm bombardment

July 10, 2014July 10, 2014 The Sofia Globe staff Sofia

The damage caused by the severe hailstorm that struck Bulgaria’s capital Sofia is expected to run into many millions of

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