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Author: Clive Leviev-Sawyer

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Bulgaria’s caretaker PM Gerdzhikov gives cabinet two weeks for ‘complete review’ of ministries

January 30, 2017March 9, 2017 Clive Leviev-Sawyer Bulgaria elections 2017

At the first meeting of his Cabinet, held on January 30, Bulgaria’s caretaker Prime Minister Ognyan Gerdzhikov gave his ministers

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Bulgaria 

Bulgaria’s centre-right parties head to early parliamentary elections deeply fractured

January 28, 2017March 9, 2017 Clive Leviev-Sawyer Bulgaria elections 2017

Bulgarian centre-right coalition the Reformist Bloc held its first congress on January 28 2017, with just less than two months

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Bulgaria 

Final bell rings at closing time for Bulgaria’s 43rd National Assembly

January 26, 2017March 9, 2017 Clive Leviev-Sawyer

A week after President Roumen Radev told Bulgaria’s MPs “you have one more week”, the 43rd National Assembly held its

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Bulgaria 

Bulgarian caretaker PM’s autobiography: ‘I was not a politician’

January 25, 2017March 9, 2017 Clive Leviev-Sawyer Roumen Radev

The title of the 456-page 2015 autobiography of Ognyan Gerdzhikov, who on January 27 2017 will take over as Bulgaria’s

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Bulgaria 

In its final week, Bulgaria’s Parliament calls a special sitting for January 24

January 23, 2017March 9, 2017 Clive Leviev-Sawyer Roumen Radev

Bulgaria’s current National Assembly, expected to be dissolved within days by President Roumen Radev, has called a special sitting for

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Bulgaria 

Bulgarian President Radev: I will uncompromisingly defend the rights, interests and dignity of the people

January 22, 2017March 9, 2017 Clive Leviev-Sawyer Roumen Radev

At his inauguration ceremony on January 22, Bulgarian President Roumen Radev pledged to work with Parliament, the government, institutions, civil

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Bulgaria 

Ahead of parliamentary election, Bulgarian socialist leader pledges to forge closer relations with Russia

January 20, 2017March 9, 2017 Clive Leviev-Sawyer Boiko Borissov, Rossen Plevneliev, Roumen Radev, Russia, Ukraine

With more than two months to go before Bulgaria holds early parliamentary elections, the leader of the Bulgarian Socialist Party

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Conduct unbecoming? Bulgarian president-elect Radev takes flak in National Assembly

January 19, 2017March 9, 2017 Clive Leviev-Sawyer Roumen Radev

Roumen Radev has set something of a record for Bulgarian heads of state by being the subject of a call

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Bulgaria 

Partial walkout as Bulgaria’s president-elect tells MPs: ‘You have one more week’

January 19, 2017March 9, 2017 Clive Leviev-Sawyer Roumen Radev

In Bulgarian politics, the convention is that new office-bearers are accorded a 100-day honeymoon. President-elect Roumen Radev’s lasted 22 minutes

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