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Plovdiv: ‘Hills of Bass’ added to ‘Hills of Rock’ festival in July 2018

March 21, 2018March 21, 2018 The Sofia Globe staff Plovdiv

A two-day concert series, Hills of Bass, is to be held in Plovdiv on July 20 and 21 2018, with

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Bulgaria 

Bulgarian government to raise prison warders’ pay after protests

March 21, 2018March 22, 2018 Independent Balkan News Agency

The Bulgarian government is to provide 15 million leva (about 7.66 million euro) for increases to the salaries of prison

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Bulgaria 

Bulgarian President at Global Forum for Combating Anti-Semitism: ‘Hate speech is not our way’

March 21, 2018March 22, 2018 The Sofia Globe staff Bulgarian Jews, Israel, Roumen Radev

Both in Europe and in the world, there is a trend of a revival of hate speech and xenophobia, which

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Bulgaria 

Bulgarian opposition socialist MP’s post calling EU, US ‘idiots’ over Putin and Crimea sparks political row

March 21, 2018March 21, 2018 Independent Balkan News Agency Russia

Bulgaria’s ruling majority and the opposition are caught up in their latest political row after Bulgarian Socialist Party MP Tasko

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Bulgaria 

Bulgaria issues ‘Code Orange’ warning for March 22 for 18 districts as wintry weather lingers into spring

March 21, 2018March 22, 2018 The Sofia Globe staff

Astronomical spring may have started on the evening of March 20, but in Bulgaria, there is not much sign of

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Bulgaria 

New representative of Russian Patriarch Kirill arrives in Sofia

March 21, 2018March 22, 2018 The Sofia Globe staff Bulgarian Orthodox Church, Russia

Archimandrite Vassian Zmeev, the new representative in Bulgaria of Russian Patriarch Kirill, has arrived in Sofia and held talks with

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Bulgaria Leisure 

Exhibition of portrait photos from film sets by Mary Ellen Mark opens at Sofia City Art Gallery on March 27

March 21, 2018March 22, 2018 The Sofia Globe staff Sofia

An exhibition of portrait photographs taken on the sets of major films such as Apocalypse Now and Sleepy Hollow by

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Bulgaria 

Radev: Bulgarian Jews in Israel a ‘natural bridge’ for bilateral relations in education and culture

March 21, 2018March 22, 2018 The Sofia Globe staff Bulgarian Jews, Israel, Roumen Radev

The Bulgarian Jewish community in Israel is a natural bridge for the development of bilateral relations in the field of

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Bulgaria 

President Radev urges Israeli investment in Bulgaria’s potential as regional centre of IT

March 20, 2018March 21, 2018 Clive Leviev-Sawyer Bulgarian Jews, Israel, Roumen Radev

As a leading country in high-tech, it is in the interests of the State of Israel to invest in the

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