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Author: Alex Bivol

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Bulgaria sticks to green energy fees despite protests

October 3, 2012May 22, 2013 Alex Bivol energy

Amid continued protests by renewable energy companies against the power grid connection fees introduced in September, the head of Bulgaria’s

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Bulgaria Business News 

Bulgarian President Plevneliev: Referendum before Belene restart

October 1, 2012May 22, 2013 Alex Bivol energy

Bulgarian President Rossen Plevneliev said on October 1 that the country’s MPs should focus on the national referendum on the

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Bulgaria Business News Perspectives 

Belene: an unfinished play of indeterminate length

September 28, 2012June 2, 2013 Alex Bivol Belene, energy, nuclear

Bulgaria’s autumn political drama season got off to a relatively quiet start, a calm before the storm of debates stirred

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Sport 

Uefa auditors dig into CSKA Sofia accounts

September 14, 2012 Alex Bivol

Four financial auditors from Uefa’s club financial control body arrived in Sofia to check the accounts of Bulgarian football club

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Bulgaria Business News Perspectives 

Fighting words: Bulgaria talks tough on Russian energy projects

September 13, 2012June 2, 2013 Alex Bivol Belene, Boiko Borissov, energy, Russia, Simeon Dyankov, South Stream

Vladimir Putin raised quite a few eyebrows when his last foreign visit as president of Russia in 2008 was to

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Bulgaria News 

Evidence mounts against Bulgarian crew in Spanish cocaine bust – official

August 24, 2012 Alex Bivol

At least some of the Bulgarian sailors arrested in a drug bust off the coast of Spain on August 13

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News World 

Pussy Riot members found guilty, given two-year sentences – updated

August 17, 2012August 17, 2012 Alex Bivol

A Moscow court found three members of feminist punk band Pussy Riot guilty of “hooliganism motivated by religious hatred” on

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Bulgaria News World 

Support for Pussy Riot in Sofia

August 17, 2012 Alex Bivol

Supporters for jailed Russian feminist punk band Pussy Riot covered the heads of sculptures at the base of the monument

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Bulgaria News 

Dangerous monument in Sofia to stay after angry artists letter

August 13, 2012August 14, 2012 Alex Bivol

The monument commemorating 1300 years since the foundation of the Bulgarian state, in the public garden in front of the

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