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Month: October 2023

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UK military to transit Bulgaria on way from Nato’s Steadfast Jupiter exercise in Romania

October 26, 2023October 26, 2023 The Sofia Globe staff

Military personnel and military equipment from the armed forces of the United Kingdom will move on October 27 and 28

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Bulgaria 

Bulgaria Air temporarily suspends flights to and from Tel Aviv

October 26, 2023October 26, 2023 The Sofia Globe staff Israel

National flag carrier Bulgaria Air said on October 26 that in relation to what it termed the escalation of tension

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Bulgaria 

Bulgaria’s 2023 municipal elections: Terziev leads in Sofia – Alpha Research poll

October 26, 2023October 26, 2023 The Sofia Globe staff Bulgaria elections 2023, Sofia

A poll by Alpha Research shows We Continue the Change-Democratic Bulgaria candidate for mayor of Sofia Vassil Terziev having the

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Bulgaria 

Bulgaria’s 2023 municipal elections: 115 mayoral candidates worked for communist-era secret services

October 25, 2023October 25, 2023 The Sofia Globe staff Bulgaria elections 2023, Dossier Commission

A total of 115 mayoral candidates in municipalities and mayoralties in various parts of Bulgaria worked for Bulgaria’s communist-era secret

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Bulgaria 

Bulgaria’s 2023 municipal elections: Series of operations against vote-buying

October 25, 2023October 25, 2023 The Sofia Globe staff Bulgaria elections 2023

The official campaign period ahead of Bulgaria’s October 2023 municipal and mayoral elections has seen a series of police operations

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Bulgaria 

Bulgaria: Elections now would produce five-group National Assembly – poll

October 25, 2023October 25, 2023 The Sofia Globe staff

Were Bulgaria to hold parliamentary elections now, there would be a National Assembly with five groups, according to a poll

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Bulgaria 

Covid-19 in Bulgaria: Omicron strain found in all 88 samples – NCIPD

October 25, 2023October 25, 2023 The Sofia Globe staff new coronavirus

Bulgaria’s National Centre for Infectious and Parasitic Diseases (NCIPD) said on October 25 that it has completed the sequencing of

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Bulgaria 

More than half of road sections inspected in Bulgaria so far deviate from quality standards

October 23, 2023October 23, 2023 The Sofia Globe staff

Deviations from quality standards were found in more than half of road sections in Bulgaria inspected in September, Minister of

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Bulgaria 

Earthquake of 3.9 on Richter scale close to Bulgaria’s Plovdiv

October 23, 2023October 23, 2023 The Sofia Globe staff

An earthquake of 3.9 on the Richter scale was recorded seven kilometres east of Bulgaria’s city of Plovdiv at 2.47pm

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