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Author: Clive Leviev-Sawyer

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Bulgaria News 

Countdown to the election of the Bulgarian Orthodox Church’s new Patriarch

January 31, 2013February 1, 2013 Clive Leviev-Sawyer

On February 15 2013, two weeks from today, the Holy Synod of the Bulgarian Orthodox Church will begin the two-day

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Bulgaria News 

Bulgaria’s nuclear referendum fiasco: We could have used the money better, PM Borissov says

January 27, 2013January 27, 2013 Clive Leviev-Sawyer

In the first hours after polls closed in Bulgaria’s national referendum on the future of nuclear energy in the country,

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Bulgaria Europe News World 

Honour for rescuers of Jews as International Holocaust Remembrance Day 2013 marked – but concern at anti-Semitism in Europe

January 26, 2013March 10, 2016 Clive Leviev-Sawyer Bulgarian Jews

Those who risked their lives to save Jews and others from mass extermination in World War 2 are inspiration for

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Editorial: Bulgaria’s image

January 25, 2013January 25, 2013 Clive Leviev-Sawyer

Just a few days after Bulgaria unveiled its new logo and slogan intended to boost the numbers of foreign tourists

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Bulgaria Europe News Perspectives World 

International Holocaust Remembrance Day and Eastern Europe: Memory recent and distant

January 25, 2013May 22, 2013 Clive Leviev-Sawyer

International Holocaust Remembrance Day, on January 27 2013, will find recently-opened Holocaust museums in Central and Eastern Europe, with another

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Bulgaria News Perspectives 

Ahmed Dogan and Bulgaria’s theatre of the absurd

January 25, 2013January 24, 2013 Clive Leviev-Sawyer

Close to a week since the incident at the party congress in which Ahmed Dogan was seen to be attacked

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Bulgaria News 

Meet Mestan, Dogan’s nominee to become leader of Bulgaria’s MRF

January 19, 2013 Clive Leviev-Sawyer

Lyutvi Mestan, the nominee put forward by outgoing leader of the Movement for Rights and Freedoms (MRF) Ahmed Dogan to

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Bulgaria News Perspectives 

Dogan and the MRF: End of an era?

January 19, 2013January 19, 2013 Clive Leviev-Sawyer

Ahmed Dogan, whose planned headline-making announcement on January 19 2013 that he was to step down as leader of the

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Bulgaria Business News Perspectives 

Sex, money, howls of corruption and influence-buying…it must be a Bulgarian business story

January 18, 2013January 31, 2013 Clive Leviev-Sawyer

It is not every day and everywhere that it is possible to claim a direct link between European Union operational

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