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Day: March 18, 2022

Bulgaria 

Bulgaria’s former PM Borissov released from custody

March 18, 2022March 21, 2022 The Sofia Globe staff Boiko Borissov, Kiril Petkov

Bulgaria’s former prime minister and opposition GERB party leader Boiko Borissov was released from custody on the night of March

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Bulgaria 

Bulgaria’s PM dismisses talk of supplying weapons to Ukraine

March 18, 2022March 21, 2022 The Sofia Globe staff Kiril Petkov, Nato, Russia, Ukraine

On the eve of talks with visiting US Defence Secretary Lloyd Austin, Bulgaria’s Prime Minister dismissed as untrue speculation that

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Bulgaria 

Bulgaria’s government says Ukrainian refugee situation in the country ‘under control’

March 18, 2022March 18, 2022 The Sofia Globe staff Refugees, Russia, Ukraine

Of the 94 000 people who had arrived in Bulgaria, fleeing Putin’s war on Ukraine, about 50 000 had remained

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Bulgaria 

Bulgaria’s PM congratulates Interior Ministry on arrest of Borissov

March 18, 2022March 18, 2022 The Sofia Globe staff Boiko Borissov, Kiril Petkov

The only way for there to be change in Bulgaria is when the untouchables are no longer above the law,

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Bulgaria 

Bulgaria expels a further 10 Russian diplomats

March 18, 2022March 21, 2022 The Sofia Globe staff Russia

Bulgaria has declared 10 Russian diplomats persona non grata and given them 72 hours to leave the country, the Foreign

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Bulgaria 

Covid-19 in Bulgaria: EC approves 60M leva state aid for air carriers

March 18, 2022March 18, 2022 The Sofia Globe staff new coronavirus

The European Commission said on March 18 that it has approved 60 million leva, or about 30.7 million euro, in

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Bulgaria 

FDI in Bulgaria in January 2022 was 188.4M euro

March 18, 2022March 21, 2022 The Sofia Globe staff macroeconomic indicators

Foreign direct investment in Bulgaria in the first month of the year stood at 188.4 million euro, the equivalent of

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Bulgaria 

Covid-19 in Bulgaria: Omicron variant found in all but one of 270 samples – NCIPD

March 18, 2022March 18, 2022 The Sofia Globe staff new coronavirus

Bulgaria’s National Centre for Infectious and Parasitic Diseases (NCIPD) said on March 18 that it has found the Omicron coronavirus

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Bulgaria 

Covid-19 in Bulgaria: In past day, 26 deaths, 1720 new cases

March 18, 2022March 18, 2022 The Sofia Globe staff new coronavirus

Twenty-six 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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