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Day: September 9, 2019

Bulgaria 

Bulgarian President’s office speaks on explicit photos of girlfriend of Sofia mayoral candidate

September 9, 2019 Independent Balkan News Agency Bulgaria local elections 2019, Media, Roumen Radev

More than four days after outrage erupted over the posting on a Bulgarian “media” website of explicit photos of sex

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Bulgaria 

Bulgaria’s Kristalina Georgieva is sole candidate to head IMF

September 9, 2019September 11, 2019 The Sofia Globe staff Kristalina Georgieva

Bulgaria’s Kristalina Georgieva is the sole candidate to be the next managing director of the International Monetary Fund, the IMF

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Bulgaria 

Bulgarian Jewish organisation rejects Russian historian’s claim Tsar and government prevented Holocaust in Bulgaria

September 9, 2019September 9, 2019 The Sofia Globe staff Bulgarian Jews

Bulgarian Jewish organisation “Shalom” has sharply rejected a claim by Russian historian Konstantin Mogilevskiy that there was no Holocaust in

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Bulgaria 

‘Homosoc’ exhibition to show findings about LGBTI life in communist Bulgaria

September 9, 2019September 11, 2019 The Sofia Globe staff Sofia Pride

An exhibition entitled “Homosoc” is to show the realities of life for LGBTI people in Bulgaria during the country’s communist

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Bulgaria 

75 years on, Bulgaria deeply divided over Soviet army invasion

September 9, 2019September 11, 2019 Clive Leviev-Sawyer

Some laid flowers in honour of the Soviet soldiers and others laid flowers in memory of the victims of communism.

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Bulgaria 

Bulgarian Prosecutor-General requests withdrawal of citizenship of two foreign-born nationals

September 9, 2019September 10, 2019 The Sofia Globe staff

Prosecutor-General Sotir Tsatsarov has requested that the Minister of Justice asks the President to revoke the citizenship of two foreign-born

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Bulgaria 

British Airways flights to and from Sofia Airport cancelled due to pilots strike

September 9, 2019September 9, 2019 The Sofia Globe staff

British Airways flights to and from Sofia Airport were cancelled on September 9 as BALPA union pilots began a two-day

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