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Month: June 2015

Bulgaria 

Food supplies to Bulgarian army to stop on June 15 as contract expires

June 14, 2015June 15, 2015 The Sofia Globe staff

Food supplies to the Bulgarian army are to stop on June 15 because the Ministry of Defence has not extended

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Bulgaria 

S&P affirms Bulgaria’s credit rating at BB+

June 14, 2015June 15, 2015 The Sofia Globe staff

Credit ratings agency Standard&Poor’s has said that it affirmed Bulgaria’s credit rating at BB+, one notch below investment grade, with

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Bulgaria 

Bulgarian Socialist Party’s Stanishev re-elected as Party of European Socialists leader

June 14, 2015June 14, 2015 The Sofia Globe staff Sergei Stanishev

The Party of European Socialists congress in Budapest re-elected Sergei Stanishev as the EU-level party’s leader after rival candidate, Spain’s

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Europe 

US considering storing heavy military equipment in Eastern Europe

June 14, 2015June 15, 2015 VOANews

The United States is considering storing heavy military weaponry and equipment in several Baltic and Eastern European countries, officials said

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Europe 

Orban threatens to close border with Serbia

June 14, 2015June 14, 2015 Independent Balkan News Agency Hungary, Serbia

Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban threatened that his government would close the border with Serbia in order to stop the flow

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Europe 

Surge in migrant, refugee crossings in Western Balkans, UN agency warns

June 14, 2015June 14, 2015 The Sofia Globe staff

Southern Europe’s migrant and refugee crisis has reached the Western Balkans where an increasing number of asylum-seekers are using the

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Leisure 

What’s On: Voinegovtsi Wrong Fest, June 20-21

June 12, 2015June 23, 2015 The Sofia Globe staff Sofia

With the summer solstice just around the corner, The Voinegovtsi Wrong Fest is gearing up for its third edition this

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Leisure Videos 

Coining a new meaning of ‘router’: podcast

June 12, 2015June 19, 2015 The Sofia Globe staff podcasts

The courier coin caper at Sofia Airport – in which customs officials intercepted an attempt at smuggling precious ancient coinage

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Bulgaria 

Leader of Russophile group quits Bulgarian Socialist Party over Ukraine

June 12, 2015 The Sofia Globe staff Russia, Ukraine

Russophile group leader, former MP and long-standing publisher of Bulgarian Socialist Party mouthpiece Duma newspaper Nikolai Malinov has quit the

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