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Day: March 5, 2018

Bulgaria 

Borissov and Putin discuss meeting during Bulgaria’s EU Presidency

March 5, 2018March 7, 2018 The Sofia Globe staff Boiko Borissov, Bulgaria EU presidency, energy, Russia

In a telephone conversation on March 5, Bulgarian Prime Minister Boiko Borissov and Russian president Vladimir Putin discussed meeting during

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Bulgaria Leisure 

Exhibition ‘Repentance – Memorial to the Victims of Communism’ opens at Sofia’s Raiko Alexiev Gallery on March 8

March 5, 2018March 7, 2018 The Sofia Globe staff Sofia

An exhibition by sculptor Andrei Vrabchev entitled “Repentance – Memorial to the Victims of Communism” opens at the Raiko Alexiev

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Bulgaria Leisure 

Exhibition ‘Five Portraits’ by Bulgarian photojournalists opens at National Gallery on March 8

March 5, 2018March 7, 2018 The Sofia Globe staff Sofia

An exhibition entitled “Five Portraits”, by Bulgarian photojournalists, opens at the National Art Gallery – The Palace in Sofia on

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Bulgaria 

Bird flu outbreak at poultry farm in town in north-eastern Bulgaria – Food Safety Agency

March 5, 2018March 6, 2018 The Sofia Globe staff

An outbreak of the highly pathogenic H5N8 type of bird flu has been detected at a poultry farm in the

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Europe 

Schengen’s Automated Fingerprint Identification System goes live in 10 countries on March 5

March 5, 2018March 6, 2018 The Sofia Globe staff Schengen

The first phase of the introduction of an Automated Fingerprint Identification System (AFIS) that introduces biometric search capability into the

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Europe 

One Oscar and 15 Césars for EU-supported films

March 5, 2018March 6, 2018 The Sofia Globe staff

Films supported by the Creative Europe MEDIA programme won numerous awards over the weekend, the European Commission said on March

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Bulgaria 

Bulgaria’s long weekend ends: Avalanche warnings, landslides and swollen rivers

March 5, 2018March 6, 2018 The Sofia Globe staff Sofia, tourism

Bulgaria approached the end of its Liberation Day long weekend on March 5, with warnings of avalanches in some mountain

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Europe 

Ankara: Increased security measures against possible terror attack threats

March 5, 2018March 5, 2018 Independent Balkan News Agency Turkey

According to a March 5 statement by the office of the governor of the Turkish capital Ankara, security measures in

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