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Day: March 12, 2018

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Bulgarian Orthodox Church defends President Radev over meeting with Russian Patriarch Kirill

March 12, 2018March 13, 2018 The Sofia Globe staff Bulgarian Orthodox Church, Roumen Radev, Russia

The leadership of the Bulgarian Orthodox Church has come to the defence of President Roumen Radev amid the controversy over

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In historic first, Bulgarian PM joins Macedonian counterpart in Skopje for Holocaust commemoration

March 12, 2018March 13, 2018 Clive Leviev-Sawyer Boiko Borissov, Bulgarian Jews, Macedonia

Boiko Borissov became, on March 12 2018, the first Bulgarian Prime Minister to travel to Skopje to join his Macedonian

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Bulgarian president, prosecutor-general challenge private security law

March 12, 2018March 13, 2018 The Sofia Globe staff Roumen Radev

Bulgaria’s President Roumen Radev and Prosecutor-General Sotir Tsatsarov both lodged separate challenges at the Constitutional Court on March 12, asking

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Bulgaria 

Bulgaria participates in EU seatbelt check-up campaign

March 12, 2018March 13, 2018 The Sofia Globe staff

Bulgaria is among European Union countries taking part in a campaign from March 12 to 18 2018 in which traffic

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Bulgaria names Equinox as its contestant in Eurovision 2018 in Lisbon

March 12, 2018March 14, 2018 The Sofia Globe staff Eurovision

Bulgarian band Equinox is to represent the country at the Eurovision song contest 2018 in Portugal’s capital city Lisbon in

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