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Month: June 2016

Perspectives 

Boris and The Goldfish Bowl

June 14, 2016June 27, 2016 Patrick Brigham Brexit

If the World was just a goldfish bowl, Am I looking out or looking in? Are the things I see,

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Europe 

Nato to send four international battalions to Baltics, Poland

June 13, 2016 VOANews Nato, Poland

NATO will agree to deploy four international battalions to Poland, Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania — countries that feel most threatened

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Bulgaria 

Russian Orthodox Church pulls out of Pan-Orthodox Council

June 13, 2016June 15, 2016 Clive Leviev-Sawyer Bulgarian Orthodox Church, Russia, Serbia

In what was hardly a surprise move, the Holy Synod of the Russian Orthodox Church called on June 13 for

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Bulgaria 

Bulgaria completes gas compressor upgrade at Greek border

June 13, 2016June 15, 2016 Independent Balkan News Agency energy, Greece

Bulgaria has completed the upgrade of a gas compressor station at Petrich, near the border with Greece, which completes the

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Bulgaria 

Bulgarian President joins condemnation of Orlando mass shooting

June 13, 2016June 15, 2016 The Sofia Globe staff Rossen Plevneliev

In a condolences cable to US President Barack Obama, Bulgarian head of state Rossen Plevneliev has condemned the terrorist attack

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Europe 

1000 Orthodox scholars urge Pan-Orthodox Council to go ahead

June 13, 2016June 13, 2016 Independent Balkan News Agency Bulgarian Orthodox Church

The Press Office of the Ecumenical Patriarchate received a notification this morning. An Open Letter of the Orthodox Scholars around

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Bulgaria 

Bulgaria annual CPI records 2% deflation in May

June 13, 2016July 12, 2016 The Sofia Globe staff macroeconomic indicators

Bulgaria’s consumer price index (CPI) shrank by two per cent year-on-year in May, while the monthly data showed a flat

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Leisure 

Plovdiv’s Opera Open 2016 festival opens with gala on June 18

June 12, 2016 The Sofia Globe staff Plovdiv

The opening gala of the annual Opera Open festival in Plovdiv will be at the city’s Ancient Theatre on June

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Leisure 

UK actor Ben Cross plays James Bourchier in Bulgare Ensemble production

June 12, 2016June 12, 2016 The Sofia Globe staff

British actor and long-time Sofia resident Ben Cross is to play Irish journalist James Bourchier in the Bulgare Ensemble’s production

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