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Month: January 2015

Business 

Gradual recovery in euro zone should lift growth in CEE – World Bank

January 14, 2015January 16, 2015 The Sofia Globe staff World Bank

Growth in developing Europe and Central Asia is estimated to have slowed to a lower-than-expected 2.4 per cent in 2014

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Europe 

Ethnic Poles evacuated from Ukraine’s embattled Donbas

January 14, 2015January 14, 2015 The Warsaw Voice Poland, Russia, Ukraine

A total 178 of Ukrainian citizens of Polish descent and their families, evacuated with the Polish government’s help from war-torn

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Europe 

Missile hits bus in eastern Ukraine, 11 killed

January 14, 2015January 14, 2015 VOANews

A missile hit a passenger bus in eastern Ukraine Tuesday, killing at least 11 civilians near the separatist-controlled city of

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Bulgaria 

Bulgarian PM, Patriarch condemn terrorism

January 13, 2015January 15, 2015 The Sofia Globe staff

At talks on January 13, Bulgarian Prime Minister Boiko Borissov and Bulgarian Orthodox Church head Patriarch Neofit strongly condemned all

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Bulgaria 

French national allegedly linked to Islamist extremists to face extradition hearing on January 16

January 13, 2015January 15, 2015 The Sofia Globe staff

A French national, Fritz Jolie Joaquin, arrested by Bulgarian authorities on the basis of a European warrant for allegedly abducting

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Bulgaria 

Pazardzhik mayor’s chief of staff shot dead

January 13, 2015January 15, 2015 The Sofia Globe staff

The chief of staff of the mayor of the Bulgarian town of Pazardzhik was shot dead on the night of

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Bulgaria 

Sofia prosecutors decline to investigate Peevski

January 13, 2015January 13, 2015 The Sofia Globe staff Peevski protests

Sofia City Prosecutor’s Office has declined to agree to a request by the Protest Network to investigate Delyan Peevski and

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Business 

Bulgaria trade gap in January-October 2014 widens year-on-year

January 12, 2015January 13, 2015 Independent Balkan News Agency macroeconomic indicators

Bulgaria’s trade deficit with both the European Union and non-EU countries widened in the first 10 months of 2014, data

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Bulgaria 

Search for Sertov called off after former security agency chief returns to Bulgaria

January 12, 2015 The Sofia Globe staff

Bulgaria’s former State Agency for National Security chief Petko Sertov is off the missing persons list after returning to the

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