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Author: Clive Leviev-Sawyer

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European elections 2014: Bulgaria’s media sideshows

May 1, 2014May 10, 2024 Clive Leviev-Sawyer European elections 2014, Media

First, there is the number game, as always – the percentages in opinion polls, the counts of participants at election

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Europe 

Gruevski’s party heads for victory in Macedonian elections marred by claims of abuses

April 27, 2014April 29, 2014 Clive Leviev-Sawyer Macedonia

The ruling party and presidential candidate of Nikola Gruevski were headed for persuasive victories in the dual elections in Macedonia

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Bulgaria 

Bulgaria’s political parties launch European Parliament election campaigns

April 27, 2014April 29, 2014 Clive Leviev-Sawyer Boiko Borissov, Sergei Stanishev, Volen Siderov

While it may seem a fiction given that Bulgaria’s political parties old and new have been in campaign mode for

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Perspectives 

European elections 2014: Bulgaria’s media in (and out) of focus

April 25, 2014May 7, 2014 Clive Leviev-Sawyer Media

Georgi Lozanov, head of Bulgaria’s Council for Electronic Media (CEM) said on the eve of the official campaign period for

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Europe 

Macedonia’s ruling party set for victory in April 27 parliamentary and presidential elections

April 25, 2014 Clive Leviev-Sawyer Macedonia

In power since 2006, the ruling party in Macedonia appears set for victory in the April 27 2014 elections, with

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Bulgaria 

Bulgaria’s 2014 European Parliament elections: Numbers, names and rules

April 23, 2014May 10, 2024 Clive Leviev-Sawyer

The official campaign period in Bulgaria’s May 25 2014 European Parliament elections starts on April 25. Fifteen parties, six coalitions

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Bulgaria 

Bulgaria’s media landscape: The more things change?

April 22, 2014April 24, 2014 Clive Leviev-Sawyer Media

Just a few days after a deal was announced involving New Bulgarian Media Group’s newspapers and an Irish-owned firm, came

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Bulgaria 

Bulgaria’s invasion of the political body snatchers

April 16, 2014April 18, 2014 Clive Leviev-Sawyer

For all the indignation about the illegal use by political parties in Bulgaria of personal data to register for the

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Europe 

Contradictory poll predictions ahead of Macedonia’s presidential elections

April 10, 2014April 10, 2014 Clive Leviev-Sawyer Macedonia

It may be said that the results of Macedonia’s presidential elections, the first round of which will be held on

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