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Author: Clive Leviev-Sawyer

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Bulgarian Socialist Party leadership in bid for damage control on ban on land sales to foreigners

October 23, 2013February 11, 2014 Clive Leviev-Sawyer Sergei Stanishev, Volen Siderov

The Bulgarian Socialist Party (BSP) leadership will provide enough MPs to make up the numbers of a Movement for Rights

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Bulgaria 

Bulgarian Parliament adopts Ataka motion to extend to 2020 ban on selling land to foreigners

October 22, 2013February 11, 2014 Clive Leviev-Sawyer

After a lengthy debate, Bulgaria’s National Assembly voted on October 22 to approve a motion by Volen Siderov’s ultra-nationalist party

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Europe 

Sharp differences in battle over ritual slaughter

October 21, 2013May 10, 2024 Clive Leviev-Sawyer Poland

Poland’s Jewish and Muslim communities are awaiting the outcome the latest attempt to reverse the ruling by the constitutional court

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Perspectives 

Bulgaria’s Fourth Estate: Fiction and reality

October 3, 2013May 10, 2024 Clive Leviev-Sawyer Media

The shrill hysteria among some Bulgarian journalists in condemning newly-launched television series the Fourth Estate (“Четвърта власт”) went, however inadvertently,

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Perspectives 

Bulgaria’s government: 100 days of isolation

September 6, 2013May 10, 2024 Clive Leviev-Sawyer

As the Bulgarian Socialist Party government marked 100 days in office on September 5, there were criticisms of all that

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Book Reviews: Herodotus: The Gnome of Sofia, and Judas Goat – The Kennet Narrow Boat Mystery

August 18, 2013May 10, 2024 Clive Leviev-Sawyer

There are few books written by expatriates who have spent some time in Sofia that give a sense of time

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Bulgaria 

Bussing in: Anatomy of a ‘spontaneous’ protest

August 16, 2013August 22, 2013 Clive Leviev-Sawyer Peevski protests

It was inevitable that someone would give the game away about the “spontaneous” protest by a pro-government crowd outside Bulgaria’s

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People 

Trust in Bulgaria: Bobby and Rosie Martin

July 29, 2013May 10, 2024 Clive Leviev-Sawyer

At a pavement café in the central square of the north-western town of Mezdra, a smiling young waitress brings an

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Perspectives 

Why doesn’t the Bulgarian government resign? 10 reasons…

July 26, 2013May 10, 2024 Clive Leviev-Sawyer Peevski protests

For distant observers, noting the spectacle of well more than a month of turnouts of many thousands of Bulgarians to

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