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Road deaths in Bulgaria in Q1 2018 lowest in four years – official statistics

April 1, 2018April 3, 2018 The Sofia Globe staff

A total of 105 people died in road accidents in Bulgaria between January 1 and March 31 2018, the lowest

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Bulgaria 

Bulgaria January-February 2018 Budget surplus at 752.3M leva

March 30, 2018April 2, 2018 The Sofia Globe staff macroeconomic indicators

Bulgaria’s Finance Ministry said on March 30 that the consolidated Budget surplus for the first two months of 2018 was

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Bulgaria will not expel Russian diplomats – political reactions

March 30, 2018April 2, 2018 Independent Balkan News Agency Boiko Borissov, Kornelia Ninova, Russia, Tsvetan Tsvetanov

Bulgarian Prime Minister Boiko Borissov won a form of grudging praise from the opposition after the government decided against expelling

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Bulgaria 

Salisbury attack: Bulgaria will not expel Russian diplomats, PM says after Cabinet security council meeting

March 30, 2018April 2, 2018 The Sofia Globe staff Boiko Borissov, Russia

Bulgaria will not expel Russian diplomats from the country, Prime Minister Boiko Borissov said on March 30 after a special

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Bulgaria 

Bulgaria’s Dossier Commission posts Julia Kristeva files online

March 30, 2018April 1, 2018 The Sofia Globe staff Dossier Commission

For the first time since its inception in 2006, Bulgaria’s Dossier Commission has posted online the files of a person

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‘Antistatic’ International Festival for Contemporary Dance and Performance begins in Sofia on April 20

March 30, 2018April 1, 2018 The Sofia Globe staff

The 11th International Festival for Contemporary Dance and Performance Antistatic will take place in Sofia from April 20 to 30

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Bulgaria 

Salisbury attack: Bulgarian Cabinet security council to meet ambassador to Russia on Skripal case on March 30

March 29, 2018March 30, 2018 The Sofia Globe staff Boiko Borissov, Russia

Bulgarian Prime Minister Boiko Borissov has called a special meeting of the Cabinet security council for March 30, to conduct

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Bulgaria 

Julia Kristeva says not true that she was an agent for Bulgaria’s communist-era State Security

March 29, 2018April 1, 2018 The Sofia Globe staff Dossier Commission

Bulgarian philospher, psychoanalyst, linguist and author Julia Kristeva, who lived in France from the mid-1960s, has rejected as untrue the

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Bulgaria 

Alpha Research March 2018 poll: Borissov’s GERB 23.1%, Bulgarian Socialist Party 20.5%

March 29, 2018April 1, 2018 The Sofia Globe staff Boiko Borissov, Kornelia Ninova, Roumen Radev

One year after Bulgaria’s March 2017 early parliamentary elections, the picture of support for major political parties was largely unchanged,

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