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Author: Clive Leviev-Sawyer

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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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Bulgaria Europe News 

Europe’s eyes on new transparency in election of Bulgaria’s Supreme Judicial Council

September 10, 2012May 22, 2013 Clive Leviev-Sawyer judiciary

Senior European Commission officials will be among those watching live online streaming and public television broadcasts of the process of

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Bulgaria News 

Stanishev seeks to stop socialists seeing red over ‘socialism is like AIDS’ remark

August 27, 2012August 27, 2012 Clive Leviev-Sawyer

A strange saga in the past few days has re-exposed rifts inBulgaria’s opposition socialist party – and exposed the fact

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Seagulls at Riviera resort Golden Sands Bulgarian Black Sea coast photo Clive Leviev-Sawyer
Bulgaria Business Leisure News Perspectives 

The shape of summer 2012: Some notes on tourism in Bulgaria

August 27, 2012June 2, 2013 Clive Leviev-Sawyer tourism

Strolling the tourist area alleyways of Bulgaria’s Black Sea coastal resort of Golden Sands in August 2012, any passerby with

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Bulgaria Leisure News 

Archaeology: Plovdiv wants to expand Roman Forum dig after several finds

August 27, 2012August 26, 2012 Clive Leviev-Sawyer

Archaeologists working on digs at the Roman Forum and Odeon sites in Bulgaria’s second city of Plovdiv have unearthed a

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Bulgaria News World 

Investigators get clearer picture of Bourgas terrorist bomber’s face

July 30, 2012July 30, 2012 Clive Leviev-Sawyer

Investigators probing the July 18 suicide bombing attack against a group of Israeli tourists at Sarafovo Airport in Bourgas have

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Bulgaria News 

Bulgarian police start special sniffer dogs checks on buses for explosives, drugs

July 27, 2012July 27, 2012 Clive Leviev-Sawyer

Bulgarian police have started using sniffer dogs to check for explosives and drugs on buses travelling on Trakiya Motorway to

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Bulgaria News World 

Bourgas terrorist’s fake driving licence was used in Plovdiv five years ago

July 27, 2012July 27, 2012 Clive Leviev-Sawyer

The fake Michigan driving licence found on the corpse of the suicide bomber who committed the July 18 Bourgas Airport

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Europe News World 

UN chief Ban’s Balkans odyssey

July 25, 2012July 25, 2012 Clive Leviev-Sawyer

The Macedonia name dispute, relations between Serbia and Kosovo and “bridges” to a European future have all been on the

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