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Bulgarian energy minister signs ‘roadmap’ with Gazprom on studying development of gas infrastructure in Bulgaria

June 3, 2017June 5, 2017 The Sofia Globe staff energy, Russia

Bulgarian Energy Minister Temenuzhka Petkova and Gazprom managing board chairman Alexey Miller signed on June 3 a “roadmap” by which

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Fitch Ratings revises Bulgaria’s outlook from stable to positive

June 3, 2017June 5, 2017 The Sofia Globe staff

Fitch Ratings has revised Bulgaria’s outlook to positive from stable while affirming the sovereign’s long-term foreign and local currency Issuer

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Bulgarian Volya party leader seeks to defend call for MPs to declare ‘homosexual conflicts of interest’

June 2, 2017January 9, 2019 The Sofia Globe staff Vesselin Mareshki

In a television interview on June 2, Bulgaria’s Volya party leader Vesselin Mareshki sought to defend his call for lawmakers

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Close to 1000 additional police to be on duty at Bulgarian seaside this summer – Interior Minister

June 2, 2017 The Sofia Globe staff tourism

A total of 946 police officers will be sent on duty to Bulgaria’s Black Sea summer coastal holiday resorts in

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Bulgarian National Assembly Speaker survives opposition motion for resignation – by four votes

June 1, 2017June 3, 2017 The Sofia Globe staff

Bulgaria’s National Assembly Speaker, Dimitar Glavchev, survived a vote on June 1 calling for his resignation, with a majority of

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Bulgaria 

Bulgarian PM Borissov congratulates Zaev on becoming head of government in Skopje

June 1, 2017 Independent Balkan News Agency

Bulgarian Prime Minister Boiko Borissov has congratulated Zoran Zaev on becoming head of government in Skopje, the cabinet press service

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Bulgarian capital Sofia names street after anti-apartheid icon Nelson Mandela

June 1, 2017 The Sofia Globe staff Sofia

The city council in Bulgarian capital city Sofia has named a street in the Lozenets residential area after anti-apartheid hero,

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Bulgaria 

219 dead in road accidents in Bulgaria in first five months of 2017

June 1, 2017June 3, 2017 The Sofia Globe staff

A total of 219 people have died and 2820 have been injured in road accidents in Bulgaria, the EU country

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Bulgaria 

Sirens to sound in Bulgaria on June 2 2017 to honour memory of Botev

June 1, 2017June 2, 2017 The Sofia Globe staff

Across Bulgaria, sirens will sound at noon on June 2 2017 in an annual custom honouring the memory of revolutionary,

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