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Ructions in Bulgarian ultra-nationalist coalition as Simeonov’s party hits back at Siderov

October 17, 2018 Independent Balkan News Agency Valeri Simeonov, Volen Siderov

Bulgaria’s coalition of ultra-nationalist parties, the United Patriots, has hit its latest turbulence with Deputy Prime Minister Valeri Simeonov’s party

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Bulgaria 

Sofia Opera fires two employees for daubing Bulgarian football club graffiti on Hiroshima memorial

October 17, 2018 The Sofia Globe staff

Two staff of Sofia Opera have been fired and kicked off a tour of Japan for daubing graffiti with the

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Bulgaria 

Eurobarometer September 2018 poll: 53% of Bulgarians oppose the euro

October 17, 2018October 19, 2018 The Sofia Globe staff Brexit

The latest Eurobarometer poll, done in September 2018, found that 53 per cent of Bulgarians oppose the euro while 33

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Bulgaria 

‘Off air’ Siderov’s TV channel shows slides attacking Soros and Simeonov

October 17, 2018October 19, 2018 The Sofia Globe staff George Soros, Krassimir Karakachanov, Volen Siderov

The strange saga of the supposedly “off air” television channel of Bulgaria’s far-right Ataka party leader Volen Siderov took a

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Bulgaria 

Bulgarian Foreign Ministry condemns daubing of football club graffiti on Hiroshima monument

October 16, 2018October 19, 2018 The Sofia Globe staff

Bulgaria’s Foreign Ministry said on October 16 that it was indignant about the daubing of graffiti of the name of

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Bulgaria 

Bulgaria’s Trade Register seeks to avert new shutdown with servers tender

October 16, 2018October 19, 2018 The Sofia Globe staff

Bulgaria’s Trade Register was running out of data storage space and risked going offline within three weeks, prompting the Registry

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Bulgaria 

Four foreign firms bid to build new Bulgarian identity card system

October 16, 2018October 18, 2018 The Sofia Globe staff

Four foreign companies – three German and one from the Netherlands – have put in offers to build the new

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Bulgaria 

Percentage of Bulgarians at risk of poverty has dropped, but still highest in EU

October 16, 2018October 18, 2018 Independent Balkan News Agency

The percentage of Bulgarians at risk of poverty or social exclusion dropped from 44.8 per cent in 2008 to 38.9

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Bulgaria 

Mouthpiece TV channel of Volen Siderov’s Ataka party ‘stops broadcasting’

October 16, 2018October 16, 2018 The Sofia Globe staff Media, Volen Siderov

Televizia Alfa, the mouthpiece television channel of Bulgarian ultra-nationalist Ataka party leader Volen Siderov, stopped broadcasting on the evening of

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