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Author: Clive Leviev-Sawyer

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Bulgaria’s Parliament approves first reading of changes to electoral law

April 23, 2021April 26, 2021 Clive Leviev-Sawyer

Bulgaria’s National Assembly voted overwhelmingly on April 23 to approve the first reading of amendments, tabled by cable television presenter

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Bulgaria 

Bulgaria’s new National Assembly elects Speaker from Trifonov’s party

April 15, 2021April 16, 2021 Clive Leviev-Sawyer Boiko Borissov, Bulgaria elections 2021, Slavi Trifonov

Bulgaria’s 45th National Assembly held its first sitting on April 15, eleven days after being elected, and voted into office

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Bulgaria Perspectives 

Bulgaria’s April 2021 parliamentary elections: What happens now?

April 4, 2021April 6, 2021 Clive Leviev-Sawyer Bulgaria elections 2021

Traditionally, with the exit polls in, this should be an article headlined “Bulgaria’s April 2021 parliamentary elections: Winners and losers”.

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Bulgaria 

Bulgaria’s 2021 elections: 87 candidate MPs worked for communist-era secret service

March 23, 2021March 30, 2021 Clive Leviev-Sawyer Bulgaria elections 2021, Dossier Commission

A total of 87 candidate Members of Parliament in Bulgaria’s April 4 2021 elections worked for the country’s communist-era secret

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Bulgaria 

The Sofia Globe: A statement from the Editor-in-Chief

March 16, 2021March 17, 2021 Clive Leviev-Sawyer

At this writing, there are 1438 stories on the website of The Sofia Globe about the Covid-19 crisis. The Sofia

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Bulgaria Perspectives 

Bulgaria’s (not so) great vaccination debate

January 31, 2021January 31, 2021 Clive Leviev-Sawyer new coronavirus

It is time to try to inject some logic into the controversy about the pace of Covid-19 vaccinations in Bulgaria.

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Perspectives 

Bulgaria faces ‘rigged elections’ playbook challenge

January 13, 2021January 15, 2021 Clive Leviev-Sawyer Bulgaria elections 2021

If there is one thing that Trump will leave in his aftermath – it cannot correctly be called a legacy

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Perspectives 

As the insurrection in DC should not have happened, neither should the Lukov March in Sofia

January 10, 2021January 10, 2021 Clive Leviev-Sawyer Bulgarian Jews

It was starkly clear in that T-shirt among the domestic terrorists in the violent incursion in the Capitol this week:

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Perspectives 

Christmas Eve in Bulgaria, 2020: Reflections on a silent night

December 24, 2020December 24, 2020 Clive Leviev-Sawyer new coronavirus

It is Christmas Eve 2020 in Bulgaria. Some believe that about 2000 years ago, a child was born who would

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