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Author: Clive Leviev-Sawyer

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The terrorist attack on Israelis at Bulgaria’s Bourgas Airport – six months on: Updated

January 18, 2013June 2, 2013 Clive Leviev-Sawyer Bourgas terrorist attack

Amid the frustration, speculation and enduring trauma in these past six months since the July 18 2012 suicide bomb terrorist

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Bulgaria News Perspectives 

Wake me when it’s over: Bulgaria holds second ‘live’ debate in nuclear referendum

January 16, 2013January 17, 2013 Clive Leviev-Sawyer

The foremost problem in Bulgaria’s national debate ahead of the country’s January 27 2013 national referendum on the future of

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Perspectives 

Editorial: Bombing out

January 11, 2013 Clive Leviev-Sawyer

This is an election year in Bulgaria and campaigning is sure to include the aggressive and the bizarre – but

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Bulgaria Business News 

Please do not adjust your screen: the bTV-Bulsatcom battle

January 11, 2013January 11, 2013 Clive Leviev-Sawyer

Conspiracy theories, appeals to European and Bulgarian national institutions, the inevitable satirical clip rewriting Adolf Hitler’s dialogue in the film

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Bulgaria Europe News Perspectives 

Bulgaria’s relations with Macedonia: Reset or reverse?

January 10, 2013June 2, 2013 Clive Leviev-Sawyer Bulgarian Jews, Macedonia

Bulgaria has underlined time and again that it wants a reset of relations with Macedonia, calling on Skopje to end

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Europe News Perspectives 

Armenia 2013: Sargsyan’s Presidential election and beyond

January 10, 2013January 11, 2013 Clive Leviev-Sawyer

Amid all the uncertainties and difficulties facing Armenia, it appears to have the prospect of one certainty – that in

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Europe News Perspectives 

Georgia 2013 and the vilifying of Saakashvili

January 10, 2013January 10, 2013 Clive Leviev-Sawyer

If those behind a petition claimed to have a million signatures have their way, Georgian president Mikheil Saakashvili will step

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Bulgaria News Perspectives 

Belene dominates live TV debate ahead of Bulgaria’s nuclear referendum that ‘isn’t’ about Belene

January 9, 2013June 2, 2013 Clive Leviev-Sawyer Belene, energy

Belene, the nuclear power station that may not speak its name, was much mentioned in Bulgaria’s first live television debate

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Bulgaria News World 

Investigators establish identity of one of accomplices in Bourgas Airport terrorist bombing

January 3, 2013January 3, 2013 Clive Leviev-Sawyer

Investigators have established the identity of one of the accomplices in the July 2012 suicide bombing terrorist attack against a

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