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Day: March 9, 2015

Bulgaria 

Heavy snowfall in Bulgaria claims new victim as man found frozen to death

March 9, 2015March 10, 2015 The Sofia Globe staff

A 65-year-old man was found frozen to death in a village in Bulgaria’s southern Kurdzhali, three days after he went

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Bulgaria 

Problem of hate speech should be discussed openly, Bulgarian President says at meeting with American Jewish Committee

March 9, 2015March 10, 2016 The Sofia Globe staff Bulgarian Jews

The problems arising from the use of hate speech should be discussed openly, Bulgarian President Rossen Plevneliev said at a

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Bulgaria 

Bulgaria’s defence minister fires head of Military Intelligence

March 9, 2015March 10, 2015 The Sofia Globe staff

Bulgarian Defence Minister Nikolai Nenchev has fired the director of Military Intelligence, Vesselin Ivanov, the Defence Ministry said on March

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Bulgaria 

Elections in Bulgaria today would produce a similar parliament – Exacta poll

March 9, 2015March 10, 2015 The Sofia Globe staff

Were Bulgaria to hold elections today, the new parliament would be largely similar to the one elected in October 2014,

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Bulgaria 

Warning of avalanche danger in Bulgarian mountains

March 9, 2015March 10, 2015 The Sofia Globe staff

There is a high risk of avalanches in Bulgaria’s mountains, with the Pirin range the most perilous, mountain rescuers warned

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Leisure 

Exhibition ‘A difficult choice of great significance: The fate of the Bulgarian Jews’ opens at NDK

March 9, 2015March 10, 2016 The Sofia Globe staff Bulgarian Jews

An exhibition entitled “A difficult choice of great significance: The fate of the Bulgarian Jews 1943” opens at the National

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Bulgaria 

Record number of Bulgarians left without electricity after heavy snowfalls

March 9, 2015March 10, 2015 Independent Balkan News Agency

The number of people left without electricity after the heavy continuous snowfalls of recent days is unprecedented, with about 850

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