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Author: Clive Leviev-Sawyer

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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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Of caretaker cabinets and careless talk

March 12, 2013July 23, 2014 Clive Leviev-Sawyer

Ahead of Bulgarian President Rossen Plevneliev’s March 12 announcement of the line-up of the caretaker cabinet, speculation about who temporarily

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Bulgaria News Perspectives 

‘A nation that showed courage’: Bulgaria and the Jews

March 8, 2013May 27, 2013 Clive Leviev-Sawyer Bulgarian Jews

Had Bulgaria’s history been different 70 years ago, March 10 would be an occasion for the deepest mourning, because that

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Bulgaria’s protesters in profile

March 5, 2013March 5, 2013 Clive Leviev-Sawyer

The “informal leaders” of Bulgaria’s nationwide protests are a motley lot with diverse backgrounds, including Russophiles, self-proclaimed consumer rights activists,

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Israeli president to press EU on declaring Hezbollah a terrorist organisation – report

March 4, 2013May 27, 2013 Clive Leviev-Sawyer Bourgas terrorist attack

Israeli president Shimon Peres will urge European Uninon leaders to put Hezbollah, the Iranian-backed Lebanese Shiite group, on its list

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Bulgaria’s national day of parades and protests: Ataka gets into the act

March 3, 2013May 27, 2013 Clive Leviev-Sawyer Volen Siderov

To the accompaniment of a local rock band on a trailer, cries of “Volen!” and appeals from the whippers-in for

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Bulgaria’s national day of parades and protests: Photo gallery

March 3, 2013March 3, 2013 Clive Leviev-Sawyer

March 3 2013 saw Bulgaria’s senior state leaders and foreign diplomats gather at the Monument to the Unknown Soldier in

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The ins and outs of Siderov’s stunts

February 27, 2013May 27, 2013 Clive Leviev-Sawyer Volen Siderov

Volen Siderov, leader of Bulgaria’s ultra-nationalist Ataka minority party, appears determined to carve himself a place in the public eye

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Bulgarian Orthodox Church Metropolitan Joseph, of the US, Canada and Australia, resigns

February 26, 2013May 27, 2013 Clive Leviev-Sawyer Bulgarian Orthodox Church

The Bulgarian Orthodox Church Metropolitan of the United States, Canada and Australia, Joseph, has submitted his resignation to the Holy

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