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Day: August 22, 2016

Perspectives 

The Balkan Blog: No man is an island

August 22, 2016 Patrick Brigham Brexit

“No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the

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Bulgaria 

Plovdiv prosecutors charge man with arson of former tobacco warehouses

August 22, 2016 The Sofia Globe staff Plovdiv

Plovdiv Regional Prosecutor’s Office said on August 22 it had arrested and pressed charges of arson against a 44-year-old man

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Bulgaria 

A Monday in Sunny Beach: concession contract breaches, drug ring busts

August 22, 2016August 24, 2016 The Sofia Globe staff

Bulgaria’s Black Sea resort of Sunny Beach made the headlines twice in a day on August 22, and it was

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Bulgaria 

Bulgaria’s Culture Minister: Owners of Burnt-Out “Tobacco Town” Houses Must Rebuild them

August 22, 2016March 16, 2017 The Sofia Globe staff 0 Comments

As a few embers still smouldered in the Plovdiv “Tobacco Town” warehouses devastated by fire two days earlier, Bulgaria’s Culture

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Bulgaria 

Culture Minister: Owners of burnt-out ‘Tobacco Town’ houses must rebuild them

August 22, 2016August 23, 2016 The Sofia Globe staff Plovdiv

As a few embers still smouldered in the Plovdiv “Tobacco Town” warehouses devastated by fire two days earlier, Bulgaria’s Culture

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Bulgaria 

Fire at Plovdiv’s “Tobacco Town” Warehouses: Public Outrage Over Inferno

August 22, 2016March 16, 2017 The Sofia Globe staff 0 Comments

The huge fire that devastated historic warehouses in the Tobacco Town precinct of Plovdiv has sparked a wave of public

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