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Day: March 19, 2015

Leisure 

Film review: Insurgent

March 19, 2015March 19, 2015 Andre Crous of The Prague Post

For a film titled Insurgent, there is puzzlingly little to get our hearts pumping faster here; even the action is

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Bulgaria 

Lufthansa pilot strike to affect eight Sofia flights on March 20

March 19, 2015March 23, 2015 The Sofia Globe staff

A total of eight direct flights between Sofia and the German airports of Frankfurt and Munich on March 20 have

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Bulgaria 

Mixed views on prospects for Bulgaria’s summer tourism season

March 19, 2015 Independent Balkan News Agency tourism

Bulgaria will have a very difficult summer tourism season because of an expected decrease in Russian and Ukrainian tourists, but

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Business 

Wizz Air to add five new Sofia flights, expand existing destinations

March 19, 2015March 19, 2015 The Sofia Globe staff

Low-cost airline Wizz Air said on March 19 that it would five new flights to the Bulgarian capital city of

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Bulgaria 

Bulgarian – American working groups hold first meeting

March 19, 2015 The Sofia Globe staff

The inaugural meeting of the US-Bulgaria Working Groups established during secretary of state John Kerry’s January 15 visit to Bulgaria

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Bulgaria 

Plovdiv – Smolyan road partly re-opened as landslide clearing continues

March 19, 2015 The Sofia Globe staff

The section of the road between Assenovgrad and Smolyan, blocked five days previously by a huge landslide, had been partly

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Bulgaria 

Restructuring of Bulgaria’s law enforcement slowed efforts against illegal drugs – report

March 19, 2015 The Sofia Globe staff

International drug trafficking organisations continue to traffic cocaine, heroin, synthetic drugs, and increasingly chemical precursors through Bulgaria into consumer countries

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Bulgaria 

Legal certainty essential to attract investors, Bulgarian President tells Parliament

March 19, 2015March 23, 2015 The Sofia Globe staff Rossen Plevneliev

To attract investors and not oligarchs, legal certainty is essential, Bulgarian President Rossen Plevneliev said in a special address to

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