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Month: February 2017

Bulgaria 

Chapter may be closing on Sofia’s Slaveikov Square bookstalls

February 21, 2017March 9, 2017 The Sofia Globe staff Sofia

The open-air bookstalls on Slaveikov Square in Bulgaria’s capital Sofia could be facing being closed or limited only to certain

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Bulgaria 

Bulgarians abroad have until February 28 to apply to vote in March parliamentary elections

February 21, 2017March 9, 2017 The Sofia Globe staff Bulgaria elections 2017

Bulgarians living abroad have until February 28 at midnight Sofia time to apply to vote in the March 26 2017

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Bulgaria 

Bulgarian elections 2017: Party leaders to battle it out in Sofia’s biggest electoral districts

February 20, 2017March 9, 2017 The Sofia Globe staff Boiko Borissov, Bulgaria elections 2017

Electoral district 25 in Bulgaria’s capital Sofia will be the scene of an electoral battle among some of the country’s

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Bulgaria 

Sofia – Istanbul rail link set to return as reconstruction on Turkish side completed

February 20, 2017March 9, 2017 Independent Balkan News Agency Turkey

The railway link between Bulgaria’s capital Sofia and Turkey’s largest city Istanbul is set to return after the completion of

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Bulgaria 

Lukov March 2017 goes ahead in spite of mayoral ban over foreign neo-Nazi involvement

February 18, 2017March 9, 2017 The Sofia Globe staff Sofia

The torchlight Lukov March proceeded through the streets of Bulgaria’s capital Sofia on the evening of February 18 in spite

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Bulgaria 

FDI in Bulgaria in 2016 was 682.8M euro

February 17, 2017March 9, 2017 Independent Balkan News Agency macroeconomic indicators

Foreign direct investment in Bulgaria in 2016 stood at 682.8 million euro, the equivalent of 1.5 per cent of the

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Bulgaria 

Probe by Bulgaria’s caretaker government finds irregularities in public procurements

February 17, 2017March 9, 2017 The Sofia Globe staff

A two-week investigation ordered by Bulgaria’s caretaker Prime Minister Ognyan Gerdzhikov has found irregularities in a number of public procurements

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Bulgaria 

Lukov March 2017: US embassy says Lukov was known for his pro-Nazi views

February 17, 2017March 9, 2017 The Sofia Globe staff

The United States embassy in Sofia has become the latest to condemn the annual Lukov March, planned this year for

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Bulgaria 

Nomination of Bulgarian Orthodox Church for Nobel Prize focus of talks between Patriarch and Jewish leaders

February 16, 2017March 9, 2017 The Sofia Globe staff Bulgarian Jews, Bulgarian Orthodox Church

The nomination of the Bulgarian Orthodox Church for the Nobel Peace Prize for its role in preventing the deportation of

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