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Author: Clive Leviev-Sawyer

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Borissov and GERB back Tsvetanov in eavesdropping controversy

April 16, 2013May 27, 2013 Clive Leviev-Sawyer Boiko Borissov, Tsvetan Tsvetanov

Boiko Borissov and his centre-right GERB party, facing volleys of calls for election campaign chief and former interior minister Tsvetan

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Bulgaria News 

Coalition question at forefront as election campaigns begin in Bulgaria

April 14, 2013May 27, 2013 Clive Leviev-Sawyer Bulgarian election 2013

The first days of campaigning ahead of Bulgaria’s May 12 2013 national parliamentary elections saw the question of which parties

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Bulgaria News 

The numbers game as parliamentary election campaigns start in Bulgaria

April 12, 2013May 27, 2013 Clive Leviev-Sawyer Bulgarian election 2013

A total of 7200 Bulgarians are candidates in the May 12 national parliamentary elections, and just 240 will make it

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Bulgaria Europe News 

EU officials in Skopje for high-level dialogue

April 9, 2013May 27, 2013 Clive Leviev-Sawyer Macedonia

European Enlargement and Neighbourhood Policy Štefan Füle was due in Skopje on April 9 2013 for a meeting with prime

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Bulgaria News 

Bulgaria’s election battle lines: GERB and the BSP

April 8, 2013May 27, 2013 Clive Leviev-Sawyer Boiko Borissov, Bulgarian election 2013, Plamen Oresharski, Sergei Stanishev

Perhaps when April 12 brings the formal start of the campaign period ahead of Bulgaria’s May 12 national parliamentary elections,

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Bulgaria News 

Two gentlemen of Bulgaria, a play in one act

March 29, 2013May 27, 2013 Clive Leviev-Sawyer Sergei Stanishev, Tsvetan Tsvetanov

A day after Bulgarian Socialist Party leader Sergei Stanishev leader provoked a huge scandal, announcing that he had received anonymous

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Bulgaria 

A week in Bulgarian politics: Potshots in the shooting gallery

March 22, 2013May 27, 2013 Clive Leviev-Sawyer Marin Raykov, Sergei Stanishev, Volen Siderov

A month after the resignation of the Boiko Borissov GERB government and with less than two months to go to

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Bulgaria Leisure News Perspectives 

Review: Bulgarian television makes a brave start to telling the story of those who defied the Holocaust

March 22, 2013May 27, 2013 Clive Leviev-Sawyer Bulgarian Jews

Imagine a continent that stood by or actively helped or actively campaigned for the mass murder of six million of

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Bulgaria News Perspectives 

Bulgaria’s May 2013 elections: Predictable unpredictability

March 17, 2013May 27, 2013 Clive Leviev-Sawyer Bulgarian election 2013

Going by recent polls, it is an open question whether the results of Bulgaria’s May 12 2013 national parliamentary elections

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