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Author: Clive Leviev-Sawyer

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Bulgaria’s Reformist Bloc agrees to nominate Traicho Traikov for president

September 8, 2016September 9, 2016 Clive Leviev-Sawyer Bulgaria elections 2016

The executive council of the Reformist Bloc, the fourth-largest group in Bulgaria’s National Assembly, agreed on September 8 to nominate

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Bulgaria 

Bulgaria’s Parliament again rejects proposal to close body checking communist-era agents

September 2, 2016September 5, 2016 Clive Leviev-Sawyer Dossier Commission

In what has become practically an annual ritual, Bulgaria’s National Assembly on September 2 again rejected proposals from socialist and

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Bulgaria 

Political scientist: Absurd to still not know who will be candidates in the presidential election

August 31, 2016September 2, 2016 Clive Leviev-Sawyer Bulgaria elections 2016

In 1970, a film was released entitled Suppose They Gave a War and Nobody Came. The runup, if it can

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Bulgaria 

Bulgaria’s GERB again postpones announcement of presidential candidate

August 29, 2016August 31, 2016 Clive Leviev-Sawyer Boiko Borissov, Bulgaria elections 2016

Bulgarian Prime Minister Boiko Borissov’s centre-right GERB party has again postponed announcing its candidate in the country’s November 2016 presidential

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Bulgaria 

Bulgaria’s presidential elections: Red Baron loses a wing

August 24, 2016August 28, 2016 Clive Leviev-Sawyer Bulgaria elections 2016

Assuming he has some familiarity with quotations from military history, Roumen Radev, the former general and now presidential candidate of

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Bulgaria 

Bulgarian Socialist Party votes ex-air force chief Radev as its presidential candidate

August 17, 2016August 28, 2016 Clive Leviev-Sawyer Bulgaria elections 2016

The opposition Bulgarian Socialist Party’s (BSP) national council, after a meeting lasting several hours on August 17, chose former Air

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The headquarters in Sofia of the Holy Synod of the Bulgarian Orthodox Church. Photo: Clive Leviev-Sawyer
Bulgaria 

Controversy over Bulgarian Orthodox Church’s silence on murder of French priest

August 9, 2016August 13, 2016 Clive Leviev-Sawyer Bulgarian Orthodox Church

Controversy has erupted over the Bulgarian Orthodox Church’s failure to convey condolences on the murder of French Roman Catholic priest

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Bulgaria 

Bulgaria’s presidential election guessing game

August 1, 2016August 28, 2016 Clive Leviev-Sawyer Boiko Borissov, Bulgaria elections 2016, Rossen Plevneliev, Volen Siderov

The meaty hand at the end of the burly arm of Bulgarian Prime Minister Boiko Borissov has quite the experience

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Bulgaria People 

British Council’s Sir Ciarán Devane: Continuing to engage, post-Brexit

July 22, 2016July 24, 2016 Clive Leviev-Sawyer Brexit, Sofia Science Festival

The British Council as an institution did not think Brexit was a good idea, and in the post-Brexit reality, remains

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