Bulgarian parties grandstand on pre-election coalitions
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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Month: July 2014
Bulgarian President confers awards on ambassadors
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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US: Images prove Russia fired rockets into 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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MH17 crash investigators hampered by fighting in 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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US, Europe demand harsher Russia sanctions
A senior British official is calling for the 2018 World Cup to be moved from Russia as punishment for the
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Bulgarian Socialist Party’s new leader Mikov: ‘The difficulty starts today’
Mihail Mikov, newly-elected leader of the Bulgarian Socialist Party, said that the difficulty was not in the leadership race but
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Bulgarian Socialist Party elects Mihail Mikov as new leader
At a special congress on July 27, the Bulgarian Socialist Party elected Mihail Mikov as its new leader, to succeed
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International police postpone MH17 crash site visit
Police monitors from Australia and the Netherlands postponed plans Sunday to visit the Malaysian airliner crash site in eastern Ukraine,
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Bulgaria’s Plovdiv campaigns against stray cats
The growing number of street cats in Plovdiv is driving the municipality moggy, and authorities are handing out hefty fines
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