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Month: August 2022

Business 

Bulgaria annual inflation reaches another 24-year high at 17.3% in July

August 16, 2022August 16, 2022 The Sofia Globe staff macroeconomic indicators

Bulgaria’s annual consumer price index (CPI) recorded 17.3 per cent inflation in July 2022, rising from 16.9 per cent a

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Bulgaria 

Bulgaria’s caretaker Interior Minister orders stepped-up traffic control as fatalities mount

August 15, 2022August 15, 2022 The Sofia Globe staff

Bulgaria’s caretaker Interior Minister Ivan Demerdzhiev has ordered 13 measures to be taken against what a ministry statement on August

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Bulgaria 

‘Hands Across the Skies’ aid for Ukrainians to arrive in Bulgaria

August 15, 2022August 15, 2022 The Sofia Globe staff Russia, Ukraine

A shipment of 35 tons of humanitarian aid, raised through the “Hands Across the Skies” initiative, is to arrive in

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Traffic in July at Bulgaria’s Sofia Airport still below pre-Covid-19 levels

August 15, 2022August 15, 2022 The Sofia Globe staff tourism

Total passenger traffic in July 2022 at Sofia Airport in Bulgaria’s capital city was less than 10 per cent lower

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Bulgaria 

Covid-19 in Bulgaria: In past week, 53 deaths, 8854 new cases

August 15, 2022August 15, 2022 The Sofia Globe staff new coronavirus

The deaths of 53 people in Bulgaria who had tested positive for Covid-19 were registered in the past week, bringing

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Perspectives 

Seventy-five years of Progressive India

August 15, 2022August 15, 2022 The Sofia Globe staff

By Ambassador Anil Trigunayat Seventy-five years of free India are replete with stupendous achievements. These become more remarkable because the

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Bulgaria 

US 101st Airborne ‘Screaming Eagles’ to deploy in Bulgaria

August 13, 2022August 13, 2022 The Sofia Globe staff Nato

The US Army 101st Airborne Division – the “Screaming Eagles” are to deploy in Bulgaria, Romania, Hungary and Slovakia in

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Leisure 

Plovdiv Jazz Summer continues in Markovo at end of August

August 13, 2022September 1, 2022 The Sofia Globe staff Plovdiv

Plovdiv Jazz Summer continues at the end of August with three concerts between August 26 and 28 in the village

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Business 

Bulgaria utilities regulator raises gas prices by 60% for August 2022

August 12, 2022August 12, 2022 The Sofia Globe staff energy

Bulgaria’s utilities regulator has approved a 60 per cent increase in gas prices in the country for the month of

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