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Day: May 13, 2019

Perspectives 

A Balkan tragedy: Of the Bulgarian village of Bolyarino, and life, and death

May 13, 2019May 13, 2019 Clive Leviev-Sawyer

Somewhere in all the bald statements of the Plovdiv District Prosecutor’s Office and in the reporting by local media, there

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Bulgaria 

6000 military personnel to take part in Nato exercise in Bulgaria in May-June 2019

May 13, 2019May 15, 2019 The Sofia Globe staff Nato

At the initiative of Nato, a series of national and multinational military exercises will be held in Bulgaria, Romania, Hungary,

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Bulgaria 

Bulgaria’s European Parliament elections: GERB lodges complaint against President for ‘electioneering’

May 13, 2019May 15, 2019 The Sofia Globe staff Boiko Borissov, Bulgarian European elections 2019, Roumen Radev

Bulgarian Prime Minister Boiko Borissov’s GERB party lodged a complaint with the Central Election Commission against President Roumen Radev on

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Bulgaria 

Turkish ambassador tells Bulgarian Foreign Ministry his words were distorted by the media

May 13, 2019May 14, 2019 Independent Balkan News Agency Turkey

Turkish ambassador Hasan Ulusoy, at the centre of a controversy about his reported call to boost the teaching of Turkish

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Bulgaria 

Bulgaria’s exports in January – March 2019 up by 8.9% on annual basis

May 13, 2019 Independent Balkan News Agency macroeconomic indicators

In January – March 2019, the total value of all goods exported from Bulgaria amounted to 13 942.1 million leva,

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Bulgaria 

Bulgaria, Latvia have lowest life expectancy in EU – statistics institute

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

In the period 2016 – 2018, life expectancy at birth in Bulgaria was 74.8 years, the National Statistical Institute (NSI)

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