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Day: August 8, 2018

Europe 

Serbs and Croats still segregated in Vukovar’s schools

August 8, 2018August 8, 2018 Deutsche Welle Croatia, Serbia

Kristina Islentieva and Filip Rutko attend the same school. They have the same teachers. Yet they live in different worlds.

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Bulgaria 

81km of Bulgaria’s new fence at Romanian border against African swine fever completed

August 8, 2018July 24, 2019 Independent Balkan News Agency African Swine Fever, Romania

Eighty-one kilometres of a wire fence being erected by Bulgaria at the Romanian border as a measure against African swine

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Bulgaria 

Sofia to host Second International Congress on World Civilisations and Historic Routes in November

August 8, 2018August 10, 2018 The Sofia Globe staff Sofia, tourism

Bulgaria’s Cabinet approved on August 8 a draft agreement between the country’s Tourism Ministry and the World Tourism Organization on

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Bulgaria 

Bulgaria to open honorary consulate in Kosovo’s Prizren, embassy in Riyadh

August 8, 2018 The Sofia Globe staff Kosovo

Bulgaria’s Cabinet has approved the opening of a consulate in Prizren in Kosovo, to be headed by an honorary consul,

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Europe 

Georgia’s frozen conflict takes psychological toll

August 8, 2018August 8, 2018 Deutsche Welle Georgia, Russia

As Ilya Bervashvili walks out onto to his corn fields, the blue circle on the map moves beyond the dotted

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Bulgaria 

Bulgaria hosts multinational ‘Platinum Lion 2018’ military exercise

August 8, 2018August 13, 2018 The Sofia Globe staff

Seven hundred military personnel from eight countries are taking part in the Platinum Lion 2018 military exercise, the largest of

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Europe 

Tensions in the Serbia-Croatia-Montenegro triangle

August 8, 2018 Independent Balkan News Agency Croatia, Montenegro, Serbia

Serbian president Aleksandar Vucic recently compared 1990s Croatia with the Croatian puppet-state under Nazi occupation. On August 5, the Montenegrin

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