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Month: September 2019

Bulgaria 

Bulgarian PM: Spread of African Swine Fever a global problem

September 10, 2019 Independent Balkan News Agency African Swine Fever, Boiko Borissov

The spread of African Swine Fever (ASF) is not only a regional but also a global problem, which means huge

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Bulgaria 

Bulgaria’s Interior Ministry reports increase in attempts at illegal crossings from Greece

September 10, 2019 Independent Balkan News Agency Europe migrant crisis, Greece, Refugees

Additional police and gendarmerie teams have been sent to the Bulgarian-Greek border following an increase in attempts by migrants to

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Bulgaria 

Bulgarian authorities probe new case of sale of Nazi memorabilia in Sozopol

September 10, 2019September 10, 2019 The Sofia Globe staff Bulgarian Jews

A complaint by a foreign citizen about the sale of Nazi memorabilia in Bulgaria’s Black Sea resort town Sozopol is

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Bulgaria 

Exhibition ‘Sofia: From the first tramway to the last metro stop’ opens on September 11

September 10, 2019 The Sofia Globe staff Sofia

An exhibition entitled “Sofia: From the first tramway to the last metro stop” opens to the public at the Sofia

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Bulgaria 

British Airways flights between London and Sofia cancelled on second day of pilots strike

September 10, 2019 The Sofia Globe staff

British Airways flights between London Heathrow and Sofia Airport were cancelled on September 10, the second day of a two-day

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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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