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Author: Clive Leviev-Sawyer

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Bulgarian nationalist minority party stops short of quitting governing coalition

September 3, 2018September 7, 2018 Clive Leviev-Sawyer Boiko Borissov, Krassimir Karakachanov, Valeri Simeonov, Volen Siderov

Bulgarian Deputy Prime Minister Valeri Simeonov’s National Front for the Salvation of Bulgaria (NFSB) party will remain part of the

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Bulgaria 

The Bulgarian possession: When ‘all property was theft’

August 13, 2018August 14, 2018 Clive Leviev-Sawyer

An evening in the second half of the 1940s found two men sitting at a kitchen table in Plovdiv, arguing

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Bulgaria 

Space for two Bulgarians: Communist fellow travellers

August 13, 2018August 14, 2018 Clive Leviev-Sawyer final frontier

An April day in 1979 found Bulgaria’s first cosmonaut, Georgi Ivanov, high above the earth and facing a crisis quite

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Bulgaria 

Bulgaria: The years when the cinema screen was red

August 10, 2018August 10, 2018 Clive Leviev-Sawyer

As its election campaign theme song in 2005, the Bulgarian Socialist Party used a sped-up, danceable remix of the 1969

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Bulgaria 

Day of drama as tensions in Bulgaria government minority partner reach Cabinet

July 25, 2018July 29, 2018 Clive Leviev-Sawyer Valeri Simeonov, Volen Siderov

The regular weekly meeting of Bulgaria’s Cabinet on July 25 had an irregular element – the presence of Volen Siderov,

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Bulgaria 

Bulgarian President Radev to hold talks with Putin in Sochi on May 22

May 18, 2018May 20, 2018 Clive Leviev-Sawyer Roumen Radev, Russia

Bulgarian head of state President Roumen Radev will hold talks with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Sochi on the second

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Bulgaria 

Exhibition highlighting Bulgarian monarchist government’s ‘role’ in rescuing Jews from Holocaust sparks condemnation

May 6, 2018May 9, 2018 Clive Leviev-Sawyer Bulgarian Jews

Controversy has erupted over an exhibition to be opened by Bulgarian Culture Minister Boil Banov on May 8 that “highlights

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Bulgaria 

EU countries agree on declaration to be adopted at Sofia May 2018 summit on Western Balkans

May 5, 2018May 6, 2018 Clive Leviev-Sawyer Bulgaria EU presidency

The 28 member states of the European Union have agreed on the text of the declaration to be adopted at

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Bulgaria 

Sofia Science Festival 2018: Deirdre Robertson, on the brain and behaviour

May 3, 2018May 9, 2018 Clive Leviev-Sawyer Sofia Science Festival

So, how could changing the wording of a letter to farmers reduce pollution in Ireland? If you are waiting for

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