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Bourgas Airport terrorist attack was planned outside Bulgaria, top Interior Ministry official says

September 14, 2012 Clive Leviev-Sawyer

The July 2012 suicide bombing terrorist attack at Bulgaria’s Bourgas Airport, in which five Israelis and a Bulgarian died, had

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Bulgaria News 

Tearful US ambassador Warlick bids farewell to Bulgaria

September 14, 2012September 14, 2012 Clive Leviev-Sawyer

A tearful James Warlick struggled, and occasionally lost, in a battle to keep control of his emotions at a valedictory

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Bulgaria Europe News 

Bulgarian FM Mladenov speaks on Macedonia’s ‘Third Half’ film controversy

September 14, 2012September 14, 2012 Clive Leviev-Sawyer

Macedonia’s controversial film Third Half, which emphasises Bulgaria’s World War 2 role in the deportation to Nazi death camps of

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Bulgaria News Perspectives 

Thoroughly red in black and white: A journey through Bulgaria’s communist archives

September 14, 2012September 14, 2012 Clive Leviev-Sawyer

The hours after midnight tread by unheeded in this journey through another era, another dimension in which the language of

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Bulgarians are EU’s biggest fans but don’t want the euro, poll says

September 13, 2012 Clive Leviev-Sawyer

Bulgarians are, relatively speaking, the European Union’’s biggest fans of Israel, Russia and the EU itself, but less so of

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Bulgaria News World 

Bulgarian government visit to Israel key to investigation into Bourgas Airport terrorist bombing – President Plevneliev

September 11, 2012September 11, 2012 Clive Leviev-Sawyer

The visit on September 10 and 11 2012 to Israel by Bulgarian Prime Minister Boiko Borissov and a large number

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Bulgaria Europe News Perspectives 

Of memory, monuments, movies, manuscripts, moral high ground and Macedonia

September 10, 2012September 10, 2012 Clive Leviev-Sawyer

Sofia currently is sending a message to Skopje: Let’s make the hysteria history. In recent days, a number of statements

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Bulgaria Leisure News 

Archaeology: Excavations start at last four archeological sites under Via Pontica programme in Bulgaria

September 10, 2012September 10, 2012 Clive Leviev-Sawyer

Archaeological excavations are starting at the last four archaeological sites under the Via Pontica programme along Bulgaria’s Black Sea coast,

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Bulgaria News 

Bulgaria awaits approval of law allowing naming credit millionaires with communist State Security links

September 10, 2012 Clive Leviev-Sawyer

Bulgaria’s Dossier Commission, the body empowered by law to research and publicly disclose the identities of people who were communist-era

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