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Author: Clive Leviev-Sawyer

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Four Bulgarian presidents at unveiling of plaque to first democratically-elected head of state Zhelyu Zhelev

November 7, 2017November 7, 2017 Clive Leviev-Sawyer Rossen Plevneliev, Roumen Radev

Bulgaria’s fifth democratically-elected head of state Roumen Radev and three living former presidents attended a November 7 ceremony to unveil

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Bulgaria 

Bulgarian government asks Parliament to ratify good-neighbourliness treaty with Macedonia

November 7, 2017November 8, 2017 Clive Leviev-Sawyer Macedonia

Bulgaria’s Cabinet, at a regular sitting on November 7, endorsed the treaty on good-neighbourly relations with the Republic of Macedonia

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Russian embassy in Sofia attempts new spin in row on claims Soviets rescued Bulgarian Jews from Holocaust

November 5, 2017November 7, 2017 Clive Leviev-Sawyer Bulgarian Jews, Russia

Amid the row over Moscow’s claim that it was the Red Army that rescued the Bulgarian Jews from the Holocaust,

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Bulgaria 

Bulgarian President Radev: Russian claim to have rescued Bulgarian Jews from the Holocaust is ignorance or provocation

November 4, 2017November 6, 2017 Clive Leviev-Sawyer Bulgarian Jews, Roumen Radev, Russia

The claim that it was the Soviet army that rescued Bulgarian Jews from deportation to the Holocaust is either deep

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Bulgaria 

Russian foreign ministry spokesperson: ‘Soviet Army prevented deportation of Jews from Bulgaria’ to Holocaust

November 3, 2017November 5, 2017 Clive Leviev-Sawyer Bulgarian Jews, Russia, Sofia

The defacing of the Soviet Army monument in Sofia with an anti-Semitic slur has taken a new twist with the

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Bulgaria 

Bulgarian deputy prime minister Simeonov slams TV stations over health minister’s resignation

October 31, 2017November 2, 2017 Clive Leviev-Sawyer Media, Valeri Simeonov

Bulgarian Deputy Prime Minister Valeri Simeonov, co-leader of the nationalist grouping that is the minority partner in the coalition government,

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Bulgaria 

Bulgaria’s EU Presidency ministry slams opposition BSP for politicising presidency

October 29, 2017October 31, 2017 Clive Leviev-Sawyer Bulgarian EU Presidency, Kornelia Ninova

Making Bulgaria’s 2018 Presidency of the EU a theme of party congresses shows, unfortunately, a complete lack of responsibility to

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Bulgaria 

Jewish organisations abroad praise Bulgarian government’s adoption of IHRA definition of anti-Semitism

October 28, 2017October 31, 2017 Clive Leviev-Sawyer Bulgarian Jews

Several Jewish organisations in foreign countries have welcomed the Bulgarian government’s decision on October 18 to adopt the International Holocaust

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Bulgaria 

Blow to opposition to Ninova as Bulgarian Socialist Party congress rejects bid to change leadership election rules

October 28, 2017October 30, 2017 Clive Leviev-Sawyer Kornelia Ninova

The “internal opposition” to Bulgarian Socialist Party leader Kornelia Ninova suffered a reverse as a special congress voted against a

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