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Author: Clive Leviev-Sawyer

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Former leader among UDF MPs expelled after rebellion in Bulgarian Constitutional Court drama

November 26, 2012May 22, 2013 Clive Leviev-Sawyer judiciary

The former leader of Bulgarian right-wing minority party, Martin Dimitrov, was among a group of MPs expelled from the party

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Bulgaria News Perspectives 

Analysis: Bulgarian government blunders hand ammunition to opposition

November 23, 2012November 23, 2012 Clive Leviev-Sawyer

The unedifying spectacle that Bulgaria’s centre-right GERB government has produced in the saga of Veneta Markovska, the Constitutional Court judge

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Bulgaria News Perspectives 

Analysis: Petar Stoyanov and the political blues

November 23, 2012November 23, 2012 Clive Leviev-Sawyer

At what may be officially if ironically termed a courtesy call on then-president Petar Stoyanov when Ivan Kostov was leaving

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Bulgaria News Perspectives 

The numbers game in the battle over a new Patriarch of the Bulgarian Orthodox Church

November 19, 2012 Clive Leviev-Sawyer

Counting up the number of metropolitans who have declared support for the interim leader of the Bulgarian Orthodox Church, some

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Bulgaria Business Europe News Perspectives 

Which group of ‘friends’ can win the EU budget battle?

November 16, 2012May 22, 2013 Clive Leviev-Sawyer

If the topic of the European Union’s future budget does not interest you that much, the answer to the question

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Bulgaria News World 

Bulgaria urges cessation of Gaza – Israel hostilities

November 16, 2012 Clive Leviev-Sawyer

Expressing concern about the situation in southern Israel and the Gaza Strip in recent days, Bulgaria has called for an

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Bulgaria News 

Advent, and the time of casting of stones in Bulgarian Orthodox Church’s Holy Synod

November 14, 2012November 15, 2012 Clive Leviev-Sawyer

The eve of the Advent Fast for Bulgaria’s Orthodox Church leaders found them in anything but the mood of quiet

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Bulgaria Europe News World 

Syrian unified opposition group gets welcome from EU, but awaits recognition, financial and military support

November 13, 2012May 22, 2013 Clive Leviev-Sawyer

France, the United Kingdom and Bulgaria are among individual European Union countries that have added their statements to the EU’s

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Bulgaria News 

Holy Synod to meet on Patriarch election preparations but Plovdiv Metropolitan to stay away for 40 days

November 13, 2012 Clive Leviev-Sawyer

The Holy Synod, the governing body of the Bulgarian Orthodox Church, is to meet on November 14 2012 to discuss

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