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Year: 2022

Europe 

EU toughens sanctions on Russia, Belarus

March 9, 2022March 9, 2022 The Sofia Globe staff Russia, Ukraine

European Union countries agreed on March 9 to toughen sanctions on Russia and Belarus, adding 160 individuals and announcing financial

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Bulgaria 

European Commission launches webpage for people fleeing the war in Ukraine

March 9, 2022March 9, 2022 The Sofia Globe staff Russia, Ukraine

The European Commission said that it had on March 8 launched a webpage containing information for people fleeing the war

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Europe 

EU cohesion funding to support people fleeing Russia’s invasion of Ukraine

March 9, 2022March 9, 2022 The Sofia Globe staff Russia, Ukraine

The European Commission has adopted a proposal for Cohesion’s Action for Refugees in Europe (CARE) allowing EU countries and regions to provide

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Bulgaria 

Bulgaria’s Blagoevgrad district becomes Covid-19 green zone

March 9, 2022March 10, 2022 The Sofia Globe staff new coronavirus

Bulgaria’s district of Blagoevgrad has been reclassified as a Covid-19 green zone, after the morbidity rate dropped below 100 out

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Bulgaria 

Covid-19 in Bulgaria: In past day, 41 deaths, 2180 new cases

March 9, 2022March 9, 2022 The Sofia Globe staff new coronavirus

Forty-one people in Bulgaria who had tested positive for Covid-19 died in the past day, bringing the country’s death toll

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Europe 

Putin’s war on Ukraine: Poland to provide all of its MiG-29s

March 8, 2022March 8, 2022 The Sofia Globe staff Poland, Russia, Ukraine

The authorities of the Republic of Poland, after consultations between the President and the Government, are ready to deploy – immediately

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World 

World Bank mobilises emergency financing package of more than $700M for Ukraine

March 8, 2022March 8, 2022 The Sofia Globe staff Russia, Ukraine, World Bank

The World Bank board of executive directors approved on March 8 a supplemental budget support package for Ukraine, called Financing

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Europe 

EC presents proposal ‘to make Europe independent from Russian fossil fuels well before 2030’

March 8, 2022March 9, 2022 The Sofia Globe staff energy, Russia, Ukraine

The European Commission (EC) proposed on March 8 an outline of a plan to make Europe independent from Russian fossil fuels well before

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Bulgaria 

Interior Ministry: More than 43 000 Ukrainians have entered Bulgaria since February 24

March 8, 2022March 9, 2022 The Sofia Globe staff Moldova, Plovdiv, Russia, Sofia, Ukraine

Since February 24, the beginning of Vladimir Putin’s current invasion of Ukraine, more than 43 000 Ukrainians have entered Bulgaria,

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