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Day: October 10, 2016

Leisure Videos 

Podcast: Blessed by God and the queen of sex

October 10, 2016October 10, 2016 The Sofia Globe staff Bulgaria Now Podcast, Lance Nelson, podcast, podcasts

Takis Dretakkis, general manager of the Premier Luxury Mountain Resort in Bulgaria’s Bansko, tells Bulgaria Now’s Lance Nelson about his

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People Videos 

Podcast: Bulgaria’s Bansko after 25 countries in 25 months

October 10, 2016October 10, 2016 The Sofia Globe staff Bulgaria Now Podcast, Lance Nelson, podcast, podcasts, tourism

Brit Sarah Carter and her husband spend the summer in Bansko having visited 25 countries in 25 months. She was

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Bulgaria 

Bulgaria anti-trust regulator accuses six petrol retailers of price-fixing cartel

October 10, 2016October 13, 2016 The Sofia Globe staff energy

Bulgaria’s Commission for Protection of Competition (CPC) said on October 10 that it has found evidence of a cartel agreement

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Business 

Bulgarian exports to non-EU countries down 13.8% y/y in January – August 2016

October 10, 2016October 11, 2016 Independent Balkan News Agency macroeconomic indicators

Bulgarian exports to third countries, meaning non-EU countries, decreased by 13.8 per cent on an annual basis in January to

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Bulgaria 

Lecture series ‘Georgi Markov: Firsthand accounts’ to be held in four Bulgarian cities

October 10, 2016 The Sofia Globe staff

A lecture series entitled “Georgi Markov: Firsthand accounts” is to be held in Sofia and three other Bulgarian cities, with

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Perspectives World 

Conflictorial: Trump the loser in second US presidential debate

October 10, 2016 Clive Leviev-Sawyer

Donald Trump went into the second 2016 US presidential televised debate the underdog, and while underdogs sometimes earn sympathy, Trump

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