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Month: March 2019

Bulgaria 

OneCoin issues statement on arrest in US of Bulgaria’s Ignatov

March 13, 2019March 13, 2019 The Sofia Globe staff

OneCoin has issued a statement in response to the arrest of Bulgarian national Konstantin Ignatov in the United States on

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Bulgaria 

Bulgaria restricts Boeing 737 Max from air space

March 13, 2019March 14, 2019 The Sofia Globe staff

Bulgaria’s Civil Aviation Administration has imposed restrictions on flights of Boeing 737 Max 8 aircraft in its airspace, following a

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Bulgaria 

Bulgaria ranks 26th in open data

March 13, 2019March 13, 2019 The Sofia Globe staff

Bulgaria ranks 26th in the Open Data Inventory (ODIN) which assesses the official statistics of 178 countries in the world,

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Bulgaria 

Western Balkans Band BG to play Plovdiv’s Ancient Theatre on June 1

March 12, 2019March 12, 2019 The Sofia Globe staff Plovdiv

The Western Balkans Band BG will have a concert at the Ancient Theatre in Bulgaria’s second city Plovdiv on June

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Bulgaria 

Bulgaria anti-trust watchdog’s latest fuel market analysis finds no collusion

March 12, 2019 The Sofia Globe staff energy

Bulgaria’s Commission for Protection of Competition (CPC) said said that it has completed its latest analysis of the petrol and

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Bulgaria 

Bulgaria formally opens tender for Belene strategic investor

March 12, 2019 The Sofia Globe staff Belene, energy

Bulgaria’s Energy Ministry has formally invited letters of interest in the tender to pick a strategic investor for the restart

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Bulgaria 

Bulgaria had youngest first-time mothers in EU in 2017 – Eurostat

March 12, 2019 The Sofia Globe staff

On average, Bulgarian women have their first baby at the age of 26.1 years, making them the youngest first-time mothers

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Bulgaria 

Police in Bulgaria’s Bourgas hold British armed robbery suspect with 53 identities

March 12, 2019 The Sofia Globe staff Bourgas

Police in the Bulgarian Black Sea city of Bourgas have arrested a 41-year-old British citizen wanted in the UK on

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Bulgaria 

Statistics institute: In three years, housing prices in Sofia rose 34%, in Plovdiv 31.4%

March 12, 2019March 13, 2019 The Sofia Globe staff Plovdiv, Sofia

Housing prices in Bulgaria increased by about 25 per cent in the three years between the third quarters of 2015

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