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Day: March 22, 2017

Bulgaria 

Bulgaria caretaker PM: No law to stop ‘electoral tourism’

March 22, 2017March 22, 2017 Clive Leviev-Sawyer Bulgaria elections 2017, Lyutvi Mestan, Roumen Radev, Turkey

Caretaker Prime Minister Ognyan Gerdzhikov said on March 22 that current Bulgarian law does not allow limiting “electoral tourism” –

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Bulgaria 

Bulgaria elections 2017: Daily roundup, March 22

March 22, 2017March 23, 2017 Clive Leviev-Sawyer Boiko Borissov, Bulgaria elections 2017, Kornelia Ninova

With four days to go to Bulgaria’s March 26 parliamentary elections, the first announcements began coming out about various parties’

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Europe 

Ukraine bars Russia entry from Eurovision Song Contest 2017

March 22, 2017March 22, 2017 Deutsche Welle Eurovision, Russia, Ukraine

Ukraine has barred Russia’s Eurovision contestant from entering the country because she previously performed in Crimea. Relations between the neighbors

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Bulgaria 

Bulgaria’s security agency bars two more Turkish citizens as threat to national security

March 22, 2017March 23, 2017 The Sofia Globe staff Bulgaria elections 2017, Turkey

Bulgaria’s State Agency for National Security has ordered the expulsion of a Turkish citizen and declared another persona non grata

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Bulgaria 

Prosecutor-General: Bulgaria will not extradite border policemen wanted by Turkey on murder, manslaughter charges

March 22, 2017March 23, 2017 Independent Balkan News Agency Turkey

Prosecutor-General Sotir Tsatsarov said on March 22 that Bulgaria will not extradite to Turkey four border policemen wanted by Ankara

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Bulgaria 

Bulgaria’s 2017 elections: Reports received of voters being bussed in from Turkey – Deputy PM

March 22, 2017March 23, 2017 The Sofia Globe staff Bulgaria elections 2017, Lyutvi Mestan, Turkey

Bulgaria’s caretaker government has received reports of buses being organised to bring voters in from Turkey for the March 26

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