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Month: January 2015

Bulgaria 

More than 1000 of Vassilev’s valuable coins to go to Bulgaria’s National History Museum

January 19, 2015January 21, 2015 The Sofia Globe staff CCB affair

More than 1000 highly valuable coins, mostly gold, from the collection of Corporate Commercial Bank majority shareholder Tsvetan Vassilev are

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Business 

Regional offices of Invest Bulgaria Agency, SME promotion agency to be set up in Plovdiv

January 19, 2015January 21, 2015 The Sofia Globe staff Plovdiv

Regional offices of the Invest Bulgaria Agency and the Executive Agency for the Promotion of Small and Medium Enterprises are

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Sport 

Bulgaria’s Dimitrov sweeps Brown in Australian Open first round

January 19, 2015January 19, 2015 The Sofia Globe staff Grigor Dimitrov

Grigor Dimitrov made short work of Germany’s Dustin Brown in their first-round match at the Australian Open in Melbourne on

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Europe 

Belgium deploys hundreds of troops

January 18, 2015 VOANews

Security was significantly increased Saturday in Belgium, Germany and elsewhere in Western Europe, following raids in which dozens of suspected

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Perspectives 

Russia is not Charlie

January 17, 2015May 10, 2024 Maria Lipman for the European Council on Foreign Relations

Russia’s official reaction to the French tragedy was little more than diplomatic correctness. President Vladimir Putin expressed his condolences to

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Europe 

Moody’s downgrades Russia amid oil slide

January 17, 2015January 17, 2015 Deutsche Welle Russia

Moody’s Investors Service has cut its rating for Russian government bonds by one notch, putting them a rung above “speculative”

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Europe 

Analysts: Terror suspect’s escape via Turkey raises suspicions

January 17, 2015January 17, 2015 Dorian Jones of VOANews Turkey

Turkish officials are facing criticism after a female terror suspect sought by French police after the attacks in Paris entered

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Europe 

Across Europe, terror raids follow Paris attacks

January 16, 2015January 17, 2015 Selah Hennessy of VOANews

In cities across Europe, police are conducting raids and making arrests, striving to ease tensions that have risen exponentially since

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Bulgaria 

Bulgarian court to rule on extradition of French terror accused on January 20

January 16, 2015January 20, 2015 The Sofia Globe staff

The District Court in the Bulgarian town of Haskovo is to rule on January 20 on a request to extradite

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