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Author: Clive Leviev-Sawyer

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Bulgarian ultranationalist Siderov likens himself to Nelson Mandela

July 12, 2013July 31, 2013 Clive Leviev-Sawyer Volen Siderov

Bulgarian ultra-nationalist Ataka leader Volen Siderov, whose comments during the current political crisis have been invariably more ludicrous than lucid,

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Perspectives 

Bulgaria: New leaders, new parties, old problems

July 9, 2013July 31, 2013 Clive Leviev-Sawyer

Recent weeks in Bulgaria have seen right-wing parties elect new leaders, new parties emerge on the right-wing and the resumption

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Perspectives 

Bulgaria’s media and the protests: From Barekov to BNT

July 7, 2013May 10, 2024 Clive Leviev-Sawyer Media, Peevski protests

Spare a thought for Bulgaria’s reporters. After six months of covering the winter protests, an election campaign and the current

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Business 

Business forum in Sofia latest step in bid to build business ties with China

July 2, 2013July 10, 2013 Clive Leviev-Sawyer

The Bulgarian-Chinese business forum held in Sofia by the Small and Medium Enterprises Promotion Agency is but the latest step

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Perspectives 

Bulgaria’s protests: what will follow?

June 22, 2013October 30, 2019 Clive Leviev-Sawyer Boiko Borissov, Peevski protests, Plamen Oresharski, Sergei Stanishev

The anti-government protests in Sofia on the evening of June 22 gathered what reporters saw as a new record number

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Bulgaria 

Bulgaria in a deepening crisis, President Plevneliev says after security council debacle

June 20, 2013 Clive Leviev-Sawyer Boiko Borissov, Peevski protests, Rossen Plevneliev, Sergei Stanishev, Volen Siderov

Bulgarian President Rossen Plevneliev said that the country is in a deepening crisis and, again effectively siding with the many

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Perspectives 

Bulgaria: The moods of a protest

June 16, 2013October 30, 2019 Clive Leviev-Sawyer Peevski protests, Plamen Oresharski, Sergei Stanishev

The public protests in Sofia, these humid days of June 2013, must first and most importantly be characterised as peaceful.

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Restaurant Review: Gusto

June 14, 2013October 30, 2019 Clive Leviev-Sawyer Plovdiv

As a youth, I once was among a group of people who – for reasons too dreary to go into

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Bulgaria 

UK ambassador to meet Bulgarian Foreign Minister on Hezbollah

June 9, 2013June 14, 2013 Clive Leviev-Sawyer Bourgas terrorist attack, Kristian Vigenin

The UK ambassador in Sofia, Jonathan Allen, is to meet Foreign Minister Kristian Vigenin to discuss Bulgaria’s position on the

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