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Author: Clive Leviev-Sawyer

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Bulgaria to return its ambassador to Ankara within days – caretaker PM

March 17, 2017March 20, 2017 Clive Leviev-Sawyer Bulgaria elections 2017, Lyutvi Mestan, Turkey

Nadezhda Neynsky, Bulgaria’s ambassador to Turkey who was recalled to Sofia for consultations on March 16, will return to the

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Bulgaria recalls its ambassador to Turkey for consultations amid controversy over elections

March 16, 2017March 17, 2017 Clive Leviev-Sawyer Bulgaria elections 2017, Lyutvi Mestan, Turkey

Bulgaria’s Foreign Ministry said on March 16 that it was recalling its ambassador in Ankara, Nadezhda Neynsky, for consultations. The

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Bulgarian election commission orders halt to distribution of book attacking Ivanov’s ‘Yes Bulgaria’ and New Republic

March 16, 2017 Clive Leviev-Sawyer Bulgaria elections 2017, Delyan Peevski, Peevski protests

The Central Election Commission has ordered an end to the distribution of a book distributed free with a newspaper, directed

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Bulgaria 

Migration, Russia are major issues for political parties ahead of Bulgaria’s March 2017 parliamentary elections

March 15, 2017March 17, 2017 Clive Leviev-Sawyer Bulgaria elections 2017, Nato, Russia, Turkey

Concerns about an increased flow of migrants into Bulgaria, and relations with Russia, are among the key issues that have

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Bulgaria 

Bulgaria’s GERB leader Borissov: Never has the situation in the Balkans been so ‘pre-war’

March 15, 2017March 17, 2017 Clive Leviev-Sawyer Boiko Borissov, Bulgaria elections 2017, Lyutvi Mestan, Macedonia, Turkey

Never has the situation in the Balkans been so “pre-war”, GERB leader Boiko Borissov told an election meeting on March

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Bulgaria 

Bulgaria elections 2017: From populism to polling stations to poverty and an epilepsy epidemic

March 13, 2017March 15, 2017 Clive Leviev-Sawyer Bulgaria elections 2017

At the beginning of the final two weeks ahead of Bulgaria’s March 2017 parliamentary elections, politicians continued criss-crossing the country

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Bulgaria 

Bulgaria elections 2017: The week that was, March 12

March 12, 2017March 14, 2017 Clive Leviev-Sawyer Boiko Borissov, Bulgaria elections 2017, Roumen Radev, Syrian refugees

With two weeks to go to Bulgaria’s March 26 2017 early parliamentary elections, the past few days have seen matters

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Bulgaria 

Little progress in six months since EU deal with online majors on combating anti-Semitism

March 10, 2017March 12, 2017 Clive Leviev-Sawyer Bulgarian Jews

In the half a year since a code of conduct against anti-Semitic posts online was agreed with major internet and

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Bulgaria 

Almost all political parties in Bulgaria’s March elections have candidates who worked for communist-era secret services

March 9, 2017March 9, 2017 Clive Leviev-Sawyer Bulgaria elections 2017, Dossier Commission

An announcement by Bulgaria’s Dossier Commission on March 9 showed that almost all parties and coalitions in the country’s early

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