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Day: December 21, 2014

Bulgaria 

Bulgarian electricity companies offer tips on cutting power consumption during Festive Season

December 21, 2014December 23, 2014 The Sofia Globe staff energy

Two of Bulgaria’s electricity distribution companies have offered customers advice on how to reduce power consumption during the Festive Season

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Perspectives 

The modus operandi of Putin’s Russia

December 21, 2014May 10, 2024 Andrew Wilson of the European Council on Foreign Relations Russia

In order to understand Russia’s aims towards Ukraine, we have to know two things. First is to focus not on

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Europe 

Putin: Sanctions will not stop Russia’s support of ‘compatriots’

December 21, 2014 VOANews Russia

Russian President Vladimir Putin said Saturday that his country would not back down from “supporting compatriots” in Ukraine’s Crimean Peninsula,

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Europe 

EU leaders on Russia: After sanctions, what next?

December 21, 2014 Lisa Bryant of VOANews Russia, Ukraine

It’s a rare occasion when European Union leaders end a summit in just one day, but that’s what happened Thursday

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Europe 

Poroshenko orders new mobilisation, military spending increase

December 21, 2014 The Kyiv Post Ukraine

Ukraine is to hike military spending and undergo further mobilisation in 2015, according to President Petro Poroshenko. In 2015 the

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Europe 

EU launches Europe in Harmony video contest

December 21, 2014 Raymond Johnston of The Prague Post

The European Economic and Social Committee has launched its annual online video competition for the third time. This year’s challenge,

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