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Day: October 23, 2014

Business 

Progress Software announces intention to acquire Bulgaria’s Telerik

October 23, 2014October 23, 2014 Independent Balkan News Agency

The United States’s Progress Software Corporation has announced that it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire privately held

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Bulgaria 

Cabinet names new head of State Agency for Bulgarians Abroad after short-lived controversial appointment

October 23, 2014October 23, 2014 Independent Balkan News Agency

Bulgaria’s caretaker cabinet has appointed another new head of the State Agency for Bulgarians Abroad after the previous appointee stepped

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Sport 

Bulgaria’s Ludogorets notches first Champions League win

October 23, 2014October 23, 2014 The Sofia Globe staff

Ludogorets Razgrad became the first Bulgarian team to win a match in the group stages of the Uefa Champions League

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Europe 

Black clouds gather over Poland’s Parliamentary Speaker Sikorski

October 23, 2014 The Warsaw Voice Poland, Russia, Ukraine

Poland’s Parliamentary Speaker Radoslaw Sikorski may lose his job after comments (retracted on Tuesday afternoon) he offered to the American

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Perspectives 

Patriotic Front’s price for participation in GERB coalition: freezing the price of electricity

October 23, 2014October 25, 2014 Clive Leviev-Sawyer Bulgarian election 2014, energy

Bulgaria’s nationalist Patriotic Front coalition is setting its price for participation in a GERB coalition government – freezing the price

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Europe 

Europe hoping for Russia-Ukraine gas deal next week

October 23, 2014 Lisa Bryant of VOANews energy, Russia, Ukraine

Russia and Ukraine failed to strike an interim gas deal in Brussels on Tuesday, with both sides holding out for

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Europe 

Estonia demands explanation over Russian spy plane

October 23, 2014 VOANews Estonia, Nato, Russia

Estonia has summoned the Russian ambassador after a Russian spy plane entered the Baltic country’s airspace without permission. A spokeswoman

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Europe 

IOC grants Kosovo provisional Olympic recognition

October 23, 2014 VOANews Kosovo, Serbia

The International Olympic Committee (IOC) has granted provisional recognition to Kosovo’s National Olympic Committee (NOC). The Executive Board of the

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