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Month: April 2015

Leisure 

Exhibition ‘The Saga of the Thracian Kings – Archaeological Discoveries in Bulgaria’ to open at the Louvre

April 14, 2015April 19, 2015 The Sofia Globe staff

An exhibition entitled “The Saga of the Thracian Kings – Archaeological Discoveries in Bulgaria” will be held at The Louvre

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Bulgaria 

Seven indicted in investigation after Bulgaria cigarette smuggling ring bust

April 13, 2015 The Sofia Globe staff

Bulgaria’s prosecutor’s office has said that it pressed charges against seven people following arrests in a cigarette smuggling ring bust

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Bulgaria 

Bulgaria’s Kozloduy nuclear plant begins maintenance on unit 5

April 13, 2015April 13, 2015 The Sofia Globe staff energy, nuclear

Bulgaria’s sole nuclear power plant, at Kozloduy on the Danube River, said that it has shut down the 1000MW fifth

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People 

Cedar Foundation pub quiz on April 16

April 13, 2015June 1, 2015 The Sofia Globe staff

The Cedar Foundation is organising another pub quiz to be held on Thursday, April 16 at JJ Murphy’s pub in

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Europe 

More Russian troops and weapons enter east Ukraine war zone

April 13, 2015 The Kyiv Post Russia, Ukraine

As Ukrainian forces faced 20 attacks by Kremlin-led militants in the past 48 hours and spotted 30 enemy drones probing

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Europe 

Turkish PM rejects Pope’s comments on Armenian Genocide

April 13, 2015 Dorian Jones of VOANews Turkey

Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu has strongly criticized the Pope for describing the 1915 mass killing of Armenians as genocide.

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Bulgaria 

Warnings on traffic congestion as Bulgaria heads into Easter holidays

April 9, 2015April 14, 2015 The Sofia Globe staff

Hundreds of thousands of Bulgarians were expected to hit the road for the four-day Easter weekend from April 10 to

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Bulgaria 

Bulgarian prosecutors issue new indictment in CCB probe

April 9, 2015April 15, 2015 The Sofia Globe staff CCB affair

The steady drip of indictments in the investigation into the events that led to the collapse of Bulgaria’s fourth-largest lender,

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Bulgaria 

One dead, three missing after hotel collapse near Bulgaria’s Varna

April 9, 2015April 9, 2015 The Sofia Globe staff Varna

One person died and three were missing after a hotel collapsed near the Bulgarian Black Sea port of Varna late

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