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Day: May 27, 2015

Bulgaria 

Bulgaria’s ‘Square 500’ national gallery opens on May 28

May 27, 2015May 31, 2015 The Sofia Globe staff

Square 500, the gallery complex in Sofia commonly known in recent years as the “Bulgarian Louvre”, is to officially open

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Bulgaria 

The sugar-sprinkler, and other strange tales of Bulgaria’s mayors

May 27, 2015May 30, 2015 Clive Leviev-Sawyer editors pick, Plovdiv

In Bulgaria, the mayor’s chair sometimes is not easy to occupy – especially, for instance, if it has been seized

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Bulgaria 

Bulgarian Defence Minister orders handover of communist Military Intelligence archives to Dossier Commission

May 27, 2015May 29, 2015 The Sofia Globe staff Dossier Commission

Bulgarian Defence Minister Nikolai Nenchev signed an order on May 27 to deliver the archives of communist-era Military Intelligence to

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Bulgaria 

Bulgaria high court overturns money-laundering acquittal against ‘Brendo’

May 27, 2015May 27, 2015 The Sofia Globe staff

Bulgaria’s Supreme Court of Cassation ruled on May 27 to overturn the appellate court’s decision to acquit Evelin “Brendo” Banev

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Bulgaria 

Cheating exposed in Bulgarian school-leaving exams

May 27, 2015May 28, 2015 The Sofia Globe staff

Bulgaria’s Ministry of Education is continuing to receive tip-offs about cheating in school-leaving examinations, the head of the inspectorate at

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Business 

Bulgaria approves plan to cut red tape binding businesses

May 27, 2015May 28, 2015 The Sofia Globe staff

Bulgaria’s cabinet has approved the country’s third action plan to reduce the administrative burden on businesses in a move that

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Bulgaria 

Former foreign minister named Bulgaria’s new ambassador to Turkey

May 27, 2015May 27, 2015 The Sofia Globe staff Turkey

Nadezhda Neynski, who was Bulgaria’s foreign minister in the 1997/2001 Ivan Kostov cabinet, was nominated by the cabinet on May 27

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Sport World 

US, Swiss authorities unveil major FIFA corruption cases

May 27, 2015 VOANews

Football’s global governing body, FIFA, was rocked Wednesday by a massive U.S. federal corruption indictment against current and former top

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Bulgaria 

Nationalists put ultimatum to Bulgarian governing coalition over Roma, crime and electoral laws

May 27, 2015May 28, 2015 The Sofia Globe staff

Bulgaria’s nationalist Patriotic Front has threatened to withdraw its parliamentary support for the coalition government unless “adequate steps” are taken

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