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Author: Clive Leviev-Sawyer

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Bulgaria and the Holocaust: The struggle for truth

July 16, 2019March 8, 2020 Clive Leviev-Sawyer Bulgarian Jews

It is a battle for historical truth, a battle against fake news, a battle against Holocaust distortion, and it is

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Bulgaria 

In Bulgaria’s Nedelino, a plaque unveiled to commemorate forced labour by Jews during the Holocaust

July 3, 2019October 30, 2019 Clive Leviev-Sawyer Bulgarian Jews

Amid the rolling lush green hills of Bulgaria’s Rhodope mountains and the soaring majesty of the pines that cluster closely

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Bulgaria 

Retro thrust: Bulgaria marks 30th anniversary of its MiG-29s

June 28, 2019June 29, 2019 Clive Leviev-Sawyer

Over two consecutive days, starting on June 28, the Bulgarian Air Force will celebrate the anniversary of the introduction into

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Bulgaria 

The strange case of Bulgaria’s Plovdiv ‘teenage terrorist’: The questions

June 10, 2019June 10, 2019 Clive Leviev-Sawyer Plovdiv

Let me begin with disclosure: I am no expert on terrorism, nor on child psychology, and nor am I a

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Perspectives 

Looking on Bulgaria: The D-Day landings anniversary, and ‘desant’

June 6, 2019 Clive Leviev-Sawyer

It had been a matter of curiousity for me for years, the reason why – in film subtitles and texts

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Bulgaria 

Bulgaria’s 2019 European elections: Winners and losers

May 27, 2019May 28, 2019 Clive Leviev-Sawyer Boiko Borissov, Bulgarian European elections 2019, Kornelia Ninova, Krassimir Karakachanov

With all but a few votes remaining to be counted in Bulgaria’s May 2019 European Parliament elections, the picture of

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Bulgaria 

Bulgaria’s 2019 European Parliament elections: Parties cagey on results

May 26, 2019May 28, 2019 Clive Leviev-Sawyer Bulgarian European elections 2019

It may be said that in Bulgaria and its political culture, everyone always wants the last word. After exit poll

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Bulgaria 

Bulgaria’s European Parliament elections: Quiet campaigns, loud complaints

May 19, 2019May 23, 2019 Clive Leviev-Sawyer Bulgarian European elections 2019

Slouching towards Brussels – or Strasbourg, the other seat of the European Parliament – competitors in Bulgaria’s May elections for

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Perspectives 

A Balkan tragedy: Of the Bulgarian village of Bolyarino, and life, and death

May 13, 2019May 13, 2019 Clive Leviev-Sawyer

Somewhere in all the bald statements of the Plovdiv District Prosecutor’s Office and in the reporting by local media, there

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