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Month: September 2014

Europe 

Hungary cuts gas supplies to Ukraine, EU proposes deal on Ukraine-Russia gas dispute

September 26, 2014 The Sofia Globe staff energy, Hungary, Russia, Ukraine

Hungary’s natural gas transmission company FGZS suspended gas supplies to Ukraine on the eve of September 26 talks in Berlin

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Perspectives 

Bulgarian elections 2014: Of campaign ads and catatonia

September 26, 2014May 10, 2024 Clive Leviev-Sawyer Bulgarian elections 2014

Bulgaria’s Central Election Commission (CEC), having banned two campaign videos, said on September 26 that it was to consider banning

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Bulgaria 

Bulgaria’s 7M leva fence at the Turkish border is ‘useless’ – and temporary

September 26, 2014 Independent Balkan News Agency Turkey

The controversial fence built along 30km of the Turkish border at the orders of the now-departed Bulgarian Socialist Party government

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Bulgaria 

Dossier Commission names credit millionaires, bankers linked to communist-era State Security

September 26, 2014September 26, 2014 The Sofia Globe staff Dossier Commission

Bulgaria’s Dossier Commission, the body that discloses people in public life that had links to the country’s communist-era State Security

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Bulgaria 

Bulgaria condemns Russia’s violation of international law in Ukraine, President Plevneliev tells UN

September 26, 2014September 29, 2014 The Sofia Globe staff floods, Rossen Plevneliev, Russia, Ukraine

Bulgaria does not recognise the illegal annexation of and referendum in Crimea, and condemns the Russian Federation for violating international

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Bulgaria 

Bulgarian elections 2014: Election commission bans second campaign ad using children

September 25, 2014September 29, 2014 The Sofia Globe staff Bulgarian election 2014

Bulgaria’s Central Election Commission has banned from broadcast and posting online an election campaign advertisement by the Movement for Rights

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Europe 

At UN, Central and Eastern European leaders warn against ‘new status quo’ of instability

September 25, 2014September 25, 2014 The Sofia Globe staff Croatia, floods, Slovakia, Ukraine

Slovakia’s president Andrej Kiska has warned world leaders against “a new status quo” where instability, poverty, violence and hatred are

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Europe 

Ukrainian PM to Putin: ‘You cannot win’

September 25, 2014September 25, 2014 VOANews Russia, Ukraine

Ukrainian Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk has appealed to the international community to keep sanctions against Russia in place until Kyiv

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Europe 

Ukraine’s Poroshenko promises peace, EU, change in long news conference

September 25, 2014September 25, 2014 The Kyiv Post Russia, Ukraine

In a live televised news conference on September 25 2014, Ukrainian president Petro Poroshenko promised Ukraine would apply for European

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