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Month: August 2015

Bulgaria 

EC approves 34M euro Bulgaria – Serbia cross-border co-operation programme

August 3, 2015 Independent Balkan News Agency Serbia

The European Commission has approved the 34 million euro Bulgaria-Serbia Cross-border Co-operation Programme for 2014 to 2020, which covers six

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Leisure 

‘Maritsa Beach’ opens in Plovdiv ahead of One Architecture Week

August 2, 2015August 2, 2015 The Sofia Globe staff Plovdiv

Plovdiv may be just more than 250km from the seaside, but as of August 2 it will have its own

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Leisure 

2015’s ‘Sofia Breathes’ events to be held every Sunday in August

August 2, 2015August 2, 2015 The Sofia Globe staff Sofia

The annual “Sofia Breathes” series of events begins on August 2 from 4pm to 10pm at the Malkite Pet Kuosheta

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Europe 

Living with Greece’s new tax increase

August 2, 2015 Deutsche Welle Greece

How are Greeks dealing with the country’s new value-added tax? Where are they cutting corners? As Marinathi Milona reports from

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Europe 

Trotsky house for sale in Istanbul

August 2, 2015 VOANews Russia, Turkey

The former Istanbul house of Marxist revolutionary, theorist, Soviet politician, Red Army founder and hero of the 1917 October Revolution,

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Bulgaria 

Archaeology: Fifth-century tomb found on St Ivan island near Bulgaria’s Sozopol

August 1, 2015August 1, 2015 The Sofia Globe staff archaeology

Bulgarian archaeologists have discovered a tomb, estimated to date from the fifth century CE, on St Ivan island off the

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Bulgaria 

Bulgarian archaeologists make rare find of fragment of 11th-century rakiya cauldron

August 1, 2015August 5, 2015 The Sofia Globe staff archaeology

Archaeologists working at the Lyutitsa fortress near Ivailovgrad in southern Bulgaria have found a fragment of a cauldron dating from

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Europe 

Roma Genocide Remembrance Day is August 2

August 1, 2015 The Prague Post

Roma Genocide Remembrance Day on August 2 is intended to be a reminder of the crimes Nazis committed against the

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