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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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Bulgaria 

For Bulgaria, Theresa May is a known quantity

July 13, 2016July 18, 2016 Clive Leviev-Sawyer Brexit

No doubt as a matter of course, Bulgarian Prime Minister Boiko Borissov will be cabling congratulations to his new counterpart

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Perspectives 

Bulgarian tolerance – from the Lukov March to the Night Wolves

July 1, 2016 Clive Leviev-Sawyer

For many years, Bulgarian politicians have had the habit of boasting of the country’s model of ethnic tolerance. But the

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

Bulgarian professor: Russia wants to divide the Orthodox Christian world

June 23, 2016September 1, 2016 Clive Leviev-Sawyer Bulgarian Orthodox Church

Bulgarian professor Kalin Yanakiev says that he is convinced that the Bulgarian Orthodox Church decided against attending the Pan-Orthodox Council

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Bulgaria 

Russian Orthodox Church pulls out of Pan-Orthodox Council

June 13, 2016June 15, 2016 Clive Leviev-Sawyer Bulgarian Orthodox Church, Russia, Serbia

In what was hardly a surprise move, the Holy Synod of the Russian Orthodox Church called on June 13 for

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Bulgaria 

Pan-Orthodox Council: Bulgarian, Russian Orthodox Church positions ‘overlap’

June 10, 2016June 13, 2016 Clive Leviev-Sawyer Bulgarian Orthodox Church

The Georgian Orthodox Church said on June 10 it would not attend the Pan-Orthodox Council in Crete in June, the

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Bulgaria 

Ecumenical Patriarch calls on all Orthodox churches to take part in Pan-Orthodox Council

June 7, 2016June 9, 2016 Clive Leviev-Sawyer Bulgarian Orthodox Church

Responding to the refusal of the Bulgarian Orthodox Church to attend the Pan-Orthodox Council and indications that some other Orthodox

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Bulgaria 

Bulgarian Orthodox Church withdraws from Pan-Orthodox Council in Crete

June 1, 2016June 5, 2016 Clive Leviev-Sawyer Bulgarian Orthodox Church

The governing body of the Bulgarian Orthodox Church, the Holy Synod, signalled on June 1 its withdrawal from the Pan-Orthodox

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Bulgaria 

The Rosetta Mission: Learning lessons from a comet

May 10, 2016 Clive Leviev-Sawyer Sofia Science Festival

Just a day before Dr Matt Taylor, European Space Agency chief scientist on the Rosetta mission, speaks at the 2016

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