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Day: May 4, 2015

Bulgaria 

Bulgaria may sign deal with Russian firm on repairs to two MiG fighters – defence minister

May 4, 2015May 7, 2015 The Sofia Globe staff Nato

Having said earlier that Bulgaria would not extend a costly contract with a Russian firm to maintain the country’s ageing

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Bulgaria 

Controversy continues over Bulgarian church honouring Saxe-Coburg as ‘king’

May 4, 2015May 7, 2015 The Sofia Globe staff Bulgarian Orthodox Church, Georgi Purvanov, Rossen Plevneliev

The decision by the Bulgarian Orthodox Church’s governing body, the Holy Synod, for former monarch and former prime minister Simeon

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Bulgaria 

Britain’s ambassador-designate to Bulgaria outlines priorities in video greeting

May 4, 2015May 4, 2015 The Sofia Globe staff

British ambassador-designate in Sofia, Emma Hopkins, outlined her priorities in office in a video posted by the UK embassy in

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Europe 

Greece faces daunting funding needs in May

May 4, 2015 Independent Balkan News Agency euro zone, Greece, IMF

Greece’s next payment to the International Monetary Fund, totalling about 190 million euro in interest payments, is due on May 6

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Bulgaria 

Bulgaria’s Plovdiv to host Concours Mondial de Bruxelles international wine competition in 2016

May 4, 2015May 7, 2015 Independent Balkan News Agency Plovdiv

Bulgaria’s second city Plovdiv has been chosen to host prestigious international wine competition the Concours Mondial de Bruxelles in 2016,

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Bulgaria 

Bulgaria’s military rehearses for army day flypasts over Sofia

May 4, 2015 The Sofia Globe staff

The whirr of helicopter blades over Bulgaria’s capital city Sofia are no cause for alarm – the military has begun

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Europe 

Moldovans demand justice for vanishing $1B, lack of government action

May 4, 2015 The Kyiv Post Moldova

Tens of thousands of Moldovans took to the streets on May 3 in the Moldovan capital of Chisinau to demand

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Europe 

EU: Turkmenistan could supply Europe with natural gas by 2019

May 4, 2015 VOANews energy

A top European official says the 28-nation European Union could begin receiving natural gas supplies from Turkmenistan by 2019, as

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