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Month: July 2017

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Bulgarian Energy Minister meets Israeli, US ambassadors on energy security, diversification issues

July 26, 2017July 26, 2017 Independent Balkan News Agency energy, Israel

Bulgaria’s Deputy Prime Minister Tomislav Donchev and Energy Minister Temenuzhka Petkova held talks with Israeli ambassador in Sofia Irit Lillian

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Bulgaria 

US ambassador to Bulgaria backs planned Sofia – Skopje good neighbourliness agreement

July 26, 2017 Independent Balkan News Agency Macedonia

Speaking after talks with Bulgarian Prime Minister Boiko Borissov on July 26, the US ambassador in Sofia, Eric Rubin, said

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Bulgaria 

Archaeology: Ivory icon, rare Byzantine gold coin found at Bulgaria’s Rusokastro fortress site

July 26, 2017July 28, 2017 The Sofia Globe staff archaeology

Archaeologists working at the Rusokastro fortress site near Bourgas on Bulgaria’s southern Black Sea coast have made a rare find,

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Bulgaria 

200 people questioned, condemnatory statements after assault of Bulgarian National Television journalist

July 26, 2017July 27, 2017 The Sofia Globe staff Sofia

More than 200 people have been questioned after three men attacked and seriously injured Bulgarian National Television journalist Ivo Nikodimov,

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Bulgaria 

Bulgarian GERB MP at centre of dried sausage ‘extortion’ allegations resigns from Parliament

July 25, 2017July 27, 2017 The Sofia Globe staff Boiko Borissov

An MP for Bulgarian Prime Minister Boiko Borissov’s GERB party, Zhivko Martinov, who is to face charges of extortion and

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Bulgaria 

Three men assault Bulgarian National Television journalist in central Sofia

July 25, 2017July 25, 2017 The Sofia Globe staff

Three unidentified men attacked Bulgarian National Television journalist Ivo Nikodimov at Orlov Most (Eagle Bridge) in the centre of capital

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Bulgaria 

Local leader of Bulgaria’s nationalist NFSB arrested in operation against people-trafficking gang – reports

July 25, 2017 The Sofia Globe staff

The Kostinbrod chairperson of the National Front for the Salvation of Bulgaria – part of the United Patriots, the grouping

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Bulgaria 

Serbian president Vučić thanks Bulgaria for efforts to continue EU expansion

July 25, 2017 Independent Balkan News Agency Serbia

Serbian president Aleksandar Vučić has thanked Bulgarian Prime Minister Boiko Borissov and Foreign Minister Ekaterina Zaharieva for their support for

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Europe 

Political maverick sworn in as new president of Albania

July 25, 2017July 25, 2017 VOANews Albania

Ilir Meta took the oath of office as the new president of Albania in front of the country’s legislature on

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