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Day: May 25, 2017

Bulgaria 

Flying in circles: Bulgarian PM hints at further years of delay in acquiring new jet fighters

May 25, 2017May 26, 2017 Clive Leviev-Sawyer Boiko Borissov, Nato

Bulgaria’s long-delayed process of acquiring new fighter jets for the Air Force looked set to stall again as Prime Minister

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Bulgaria 

Mayor of Bulgaria’s Assenovgrad municipality taken into custody a week after chief architect arrested

May 25, 2017May 25, 2017 The Sofia Globe staff Plovdiv

In an operation by the Bulgarian Special Prosecutor’s Office and the State Agency for National Security, the mayor of Assenovgrad

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Bulgaria 

Plovdiv District Court sentences man to four years in jail for Tobacco Town warehouses fire

May 25, 2017May 27, 2017 The Sofia Globe staff Plovdiv

Plovdiv District Court sentenced Lyubomir Danchev (44) to four years in jail on May 25 2017, finding him guilty of

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Bulgaria 

Bulgaria’s environment minister orders check of air quality in village of Trud, long scene of protests over stench from biomass plant

May 25, 2017May 26, 2017 The Sofia Globe staff Plovdiv

Bulgaria’s Minister of Environment and Water, Neno Dimov, has ordered an inspection of the quality of the ambient air in

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Bulgaria 

Controversial former MP for Siderov’s Ataka appointed as Sofia regional governor

May 25, 2017May 26, 2017 The Sofia Globe staff Sofia, Volen Siderov

Bulgaria’s coalition cabinet appointed on May 25 as Sofia regional governor, former Ataka MP Ilian Todorov, a figure most in

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Bulgaria 

Eyebrows raised in Sofia over Putin’s claim that Slavonic script ‘came from Macedonian lands’

May 25, 2017May 26, 2017 Independent Balkan News Agency Macedonia, Russia

A statement by Russian president Vladimir Putin, at a meeting with his counterpart from Skopje, that Slavonic script “came from

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