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Month: August 2018

Bulgaria 

The Bulgarian possession: When ‘all property was theft’

August 13, 2018August 14, 2018 Clive Leviev-Sawyer

An evening in the second half of the 1940s found two men sitting at a kitchen table in Plovdiv, arguing

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Bulgaria 

Space for two Bulgarians: Communist fellow travellers

August 13, 2018August 14, 2018 Clive Leviev-Sawyer final frontier

An April day in 1979 found Bulgaria’s first cosmonaut, Georgi Ivanov, high above the earth and facing a crisis quite

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Bulgaria 

Ilinden Uprising controversy: Zaev in conciliatory signal to Bulgaria

August 10, 2018 Independent Balkan News Agency Macedonia

Zoran Zaev has emphasised the “sincere friendship and co-operation” between his country and Bulgaria, in a move to clear away

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Business 

Bulgaria’s exports in the first half of 2018 slightly up – statistics institute

August 10, 2018August 13, 2018 Independent Balkan News Agency macroeconomic indicators

In the period January – June 2018 the value of all the goods exported from Bulgaria amounted to 25 569.4

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Bulgaria 

Eye in the sky: Helicopter to assist in monitoring traffic to Bulgaria’s Black Sea

August 10, 2018August 13, 2018 The Sofia Globe staff

A special police operation to control traffic to Bulgaria’s Black Sea is being carried out on August 10, including the

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Bulgaria 

Bulgaria: The years when the cinema screen was red

August 10, 2018August 10, 2018 Clive Leviev-Sawyer

As its election campaign theme song in 2005, the Bulgarian Socialist Party used a sped-up, danceable remix of the 1969

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Bulgaria 

Macedonian PM Zaev’s remarks on Ilinden Uprising raise hackles in Bulgaria

August 9, 2018August 13, 2018 Independent Balkan News Agency Boiko Borissov, Macedonia

Bulgarian Prime Minister Boiko Borissov gave a rebuke on August 9 to his Macedonian counterpart Zoran Zaev, who had said

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Bulgaria 

Clear skies forecast over Bulgaria for 2018 Perseid meteor shower

August 9, 2018August 13, 2018 The Sofia Globe staff final frontier

The weekend weather forecast for Bulgaria has more sunny weather and little cloud cover, which should offer starwatchers a clear

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Bulgaria 

EU approves 1.5M euro in technical support for Bulgarian judiciary

August 9, 2018 The Sofia Globe staff European Commission, judiciary

The European Commission has approved 1.5 million euro in funding for projects focused on reforms in the area of insolvency,

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