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Author: Clive Leviev-Sawyer

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Sofia Science Festival: Quentin Cooper: ‘The best way to change the image of scientists is for people to meet them’

May 1, 2018May 7, 2018 Clive Leviev-Sawyer Sofia Science Festival

Ask a child to draw a picture of a scientist, and it is likely you will be presented with a

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Perspectives 

Bulgarian security council meeting agrees on ‘urgency’ of military modernisation (again)

April 19, 2018April 21, 2018 Clive Leviev-Sawyer Roumen Radev

Bulgaria’s Consultative Council on National Security met for more than four hours on April 19, ending with President Roumen Radev

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Bulgaria 

Sofia Science Festival 2018: Futurist Roey Tzezana is coming…or rather, his robot is

April 16, 2018April 21, 2018 Clive Leviev-Sawyer Israel, Sofia Science Festival

Normally, in writing about the participants in Sofia Science Festival, each story is about a presenter who is coming. This

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Bulgaria 

Simon Singh: ‘Science doesn’t dictate policy but policy shouldn’t ignore science’

April 9, 2018April 16, 2018 Clive Leviev-Sawyer Sofia Science Festival

It is a troubling world, one within which climate change deniers and those who are anti-science occupy high office –

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Bulgaria 

Bulgarian who called Jews ‘enemy population’ pursues editor through the courts for calling him an anti-Semite

April 4, 2018April 7, 2018 Clive Leviev-Sawyer Bulgarian Jews

Retired Bulgarian politician Dyanko Markov, 95, is continuing to pursue editor Yuliana Metodieva through the courts for calling him an

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Bulgaria Perspectives 

Great, or not so great, expectations for EU – Turkey summit in Varna

March 25, 2018March 26, 2018 Clive Leviev-Sawyer Boiko Borissov, Bulgaria EU presidency, Turkey, Varna

Bulgarian Prime Minister Boiko Borissov, who is to host the March 26 2018 meeting in Varna of leaders of Turkey

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Bulgaria 

President Radev urges Israeli investment in Bulgaria’s potential as regional centre of IT

March 20, 2018March 21, 2018 Clive Leviev-Sawyer Bulgarian Jews, Israel, Roumen Radev

As a leading country in high-tech, it is in the interests of the State of Israel to invest in the

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Bulgaria 

In historic first, Bulgarian PM joins Macedonian counterpart in Skopje for Holocaust commemoration

March 12, 2018March 13, 2018 Clive Leviev-Sawyer Boiko Borissov, Bulgarian Jews, Macedonia

Boiko Borissov became, on March 12 2018, the first Bulgarian Prime Minister to travel to Skopje to join his Macedonian

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Bulgaria Perspectives 

Bulgaria rushes to ‘self-defence’: Ami, get your gun

March 9, 2018March 9, 2018 Clive Leviev-Sawyer

One night in Plovdiv, recently, a doctor shot dead a thief. The facts of how that transpired are disputed. Perceptions,

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