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Remembrance Sunday 2017 in Sofia: ‘We shall remember them’

November 12, 2017November 13, 2017 Clive Leviev-Sawyer

Diplomats, current and former service personnel, national and municipal officials and members of the expatriate community in Bulgaria gathered at

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Bulgaria 

President Radev on Soviet monuments: It’s up to the Bulgarian foreign ministry to respond to the Russian foreign ministry

November 11, 2017November 12, 2017 Clive Leviev-Sawyer Plovdiv, Roumen Radev, Russia

There is a clear protocol, that the Bulgarian foreign ministry should respond to the Russian foreign ministry, Bulgarian President Roumen

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Bulgaria 

Bulgarian Foreign Ministry condemns daubing of Nazi, anti-Semitic slogans on Soviet monument in Plovdiv

November 11, 2017November 13, 2017 Clive Leviev-Sawyer Bulgarian Jews, Plovdiv, Russia

Bulgaria’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs has strongly condemned the act of vandalism against the Alyosha monument in Plovdiv that saw

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Bulgaria 

Tangling over the transition: Bulgarian politicians mark November 10 anniversary of the fall of Zhivkov

November 10, 2017November 6, 2018 Clive Leviev-Sawyer

Certain dates in the Bulgarian political calendar are destined to arouse passions arising from ideological differences, and November 10 is

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Bulgaria 

Alyosha Soviet soldier monument in Bulgaria’s Plovdiv daubed with anti-Semitic, anti-Russian graffiti

November 10, 2017November 11, 2017 Clive Leviev-Sawyer Bulgarian Jews, Plovdiv

The Alyosha monument in Bulgaria’s second city Plovdiv has been daubed with numerous anti-Semitic, anti-Russian and anti-communist messages. The spraying

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Bulgaria 

Defence Minister: Ranking procedure for new fighter aircraft to be completed by end of July 2018

November 10, 2017November 11, 2017 Clive Leviev-Sawyer Krassimir Karakachanov

Bulgaria’s Defence Ministry will send a formal invitation by the end of November 2017 to the bidders to supply the

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Bulgaria 

Bulgaria among 11 EU countries lacking official data on anti-Semitic incidents – European rights agency

November 9, 2017November 9, 2017 Clive Leviev-Sawyer Bulgarian Jews

Bulgaria was among 11 European Union countries missing official data on anti-Semitic incidents for some years, according to a new

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Bulgaria 

Russian foreign ministry spokesperson hits back in row over ‘Soviet rescue of Bulgarian Jews’

November 9, 2017November 10, 2017 Clive Leviev-Sawyer Bulgarian Jews

A week after her claim that the Soviet army saved the Bulgarian Jews from the Holocaust in the Second World

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Bulgaria 

American Jewish Committee rejects Russian revisionism on rescue of Bulgarian Jews from Holocaust

November 7, 2017November 8, 2017 Clive Leviev-Sawyer Bulgarian Jews

The claim that the wartime rescue of nearly 50 000 Bulgarian Jews from the Holocaust was the result of Soviet,

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