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Day: January 30, 2015

Europe 

Dracula Park project floated again in Romania

January 30, 2015 Independent Balkan News Agency Romania

Romania wants to build a Dracula theme park in Transylvania, the head of the national tourism agency said, reviving an

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Bulgaria 

Bulgaria declares February 1 national day of mourning for former president Zhelev

January 30, 2015February 1, 2015 The Sofia Globe staff

Bulgaria’s cabinet has declared Sunday February 1 2015 a national day of mourning after the death of Zhelyu Zhelev, who

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Bulgaria 

Bulgaria busts international antiquities trafficking ring

January 30, 2015February 1, 2015 The Sofia Globe staff archaeology

Bulgaria has seized more than 2000 ancient and medieval objects during two major operations against an international crime group trafficking

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Bulgaria 

Nato defence ministers to decide on command centres in Bulgaria, other eastern Europe countries

January 30, 2015February 1, 2015 The Sofia Globe staff Nato

Nato defence ministers are to decide at a meeting in Brussels on February 5 on deploying alliance command centres in

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Bulgaria 

Tributes pour in for Bulgaria’s late president Zhelev

January 30, 2015February 1, 2015 The Sofia Globe staff

Members of Parliament held a minute of silence on January 30 after the announcement of the death at the age

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Bulgaria 

Bulgaria’s first democratically-elected president, Zhelyu Zhelev, dies

January 30, 2015February 1, 2015 The Sofia Globe staff

Zhelyu Zhelev, the first democratically-elected president of Bulgaria after communism ended in the country, has died at the age of

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Leisure 

Film review: Whiplash

January 30, 2015January 30, 2015 Andre Crous of The Prague Post

Malcolm Gladwell says it takes around 10 000 hours of practice to reach mastery of a craft. But in Damien

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Bulgaria 

Bulgaria to reimpose curfew in all refugee shelters

January 30, 2015January 30, 2015 Independent Balkan News Agency Syrian refugees

Bulgaria will reintroduce a curfew at all refugee shelters in the country within a few days, State Agency for Refugees

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Bulgaria 

When Bulgaria turned red: Remembering the thousands killed by the communists

January 30, 2015May 10, 2024 Clive Leviev-Sawyer

February 1 2015 will see Bulgaria’s annual commemoration of the victims of communism, moments of remembrance first decreed by the

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