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Author: Clive Leviev-Sawyer

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Bulgaria backs Spanish unity, rejects Catalonian declaration of independence

October 27, 2017October 29, 2017 Clive Leviev-Sawyer

Bulgaria respects the constitutional order of the Kingdom of Spain, the rule of law and the principles of a law-based

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Bulgaria’s Defence Ministry tangles with Russian MiG corporation over fighter jet engines

October 27, 2017October 29, 2017 Clive Leviev-Sawyer Russia

Russia’s MiG aircraft corporation said that recent statements by Bulgarian officials that the Air Force’s fighter jet engines could not

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Bulgaria 

Bulgarian President Radev on the non-flying fighter pilots: ‘Dissatisfaction understandable’

October 26, 2017October 27, 2017 Clive Leviev-Sawyer Roumen Radev

Bulgarian President and former Air Force commander Roumen Radev has effectively sided with the MiG-29 pilots who declined to take

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Bulgarian PM Borissov on the Graf Ignatievo fighter pilots: ‘I fly when I have to’

October 25, 2017October 26, 2017 Clive Leviev-Sawyer Boiko Borissov

Bulgarian Prime Minister Boiko Borissov has levelled criticism at the Graf Ignatievo fighter pilots who for two days have not

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Fighter pilots at Bulgaria’s Graf Ignatievo air base again do not take part in training flights

October 25, 2017October 25, 2017 Clive Leviev-Sawyer

Bulgarian Air Force MiG-29 fighter pilots at Graf Ignatievo air base again did not take off for scheduled training exercises

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Bulgarian Defence Minister: Reports of mutiny by Air Force pilots exaggerated

October 24, 2017 Clive Leviev-Sawyer Krassimir Karakachanov

Bulgarian Defence Minister Krassimir Karakachanov told a hastily-convened news conference on October 24 that reports that Air Force pilots had

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Bulgarian EU Presidency: Pointless to pursue portrayal of a Potemkin village

October 24, 2017October 25, 2017 Clive Leviev-Sawyer Bulgarian EU Presidency

As many – including Bulgarians – who grew up in the communist bloc would remember, there was a Soviet animated

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Bulgaria 

Mixed signals from Bulgarian Defence Ministry over reports fighter pilots refused training flights

October 24, 2017October 25, 2017 Clive Leviev-Sawyer Krassimir Karakachanov

The leadership of Bulgaria’s Defence Ministry went into damage control mode on October 24 following media reports that fighter pilots

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Bulgaria 

Bulgarian Air Force pilots refuse training flights because of safety concerns, demotivation – reports

October 24, 2017October 25, 2017 Clive Leviev-Sawyer

Scheduled training flights at the Bulgarian Air Force’s Graf Ignatievo base were suspended on October 24 as combat pilots massively

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