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21 foreigners have quit Bulgaria in past two years after causing fatal car crashes and injuries – report

May 26, 2017January 9, 2019 The Sofia Globe staff

Twenty-one foreigners responsible for fatalities and injuries in car crashes in the past two years had fled the country, local

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Bulgaria 

Prosecutors lodge two charges against mayor of Bulgarian town of Assenovgrad

May 26, 2017May 26, 2017 The Sofia Globe staff Plovdiv

The Plovdiv District Prosecutor’s Office has lodged two charges, of misappropriating large sums of money and of signing false documents,

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Bulgaria 

Two Bulgarian Border Police among six arrested in bust of people-trafficking operation at Sofia Airport

May 26, 2017May 27, 2017 The Sofia Globe staff

Six people, including two Border Police, have been detained in an operation against an organised crime group that was trafficking

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Bulgaria 

Bulgarian PM meets initiators of Nobel Prize nomination for Bulgarian Orthodox Church for role in preventing deportation of Jews to Holocaust

May 26, 2017May 27, 2017 The Sofia Globe staff Boiko Borissov, Bulgarian Jews, Bulgarian Orthodox Church

Bulgarian Prime Minister Boiko Borissov has held talks with three of the initiators of the campaign for the Nobel Peace

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Bulgaria 

Bulgaria watchdog ends Lukoil anti-trust probe, finds no wrongdoing

May 26, 2017September 30, 2022 The Sofia Globe staff energy

Bulgaria’s Commission for Protection of Competition (CPC) has ended its investigation of two subsidiaries of Russian privately-held oil major Lukoil,

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Bulgaria 

War of words over Cyrillic script continues as Putin unites Bulgaria – against him

May 26, 2017May 26, 2017 Independent Balkan News Agency Macedonia, Russia

Bulgarian politicians across the political spectrum seldom agree about anything – but Russian president Vladimir Putin has inspired a rare

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Bulgaria 

Flying in circles: Bulgarian PM hints at further years of delay in acquiring new jet fighters

May 25, 2017May 26, 2017 Clive Leviev-Sawyer Boiko Borissov, Nato

Bulgaria’s long-delayed process of acquiring new fighter jets for the Air Force looked set to stall again as Prime Minister

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Bulgaria 

Mayor of Bulgaria’s Assenovgrad municipality taken into custody a week after chief architect arrested

May 25, 2017May 25, 2017 The Sofia Globe staff Plovdiv

In an operation by the Bulgarian Special Prosecutor’s Office and the State Agency for National Security, the mayor of Assenovgrad

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Bulgaria 

Plovdiv District Court sentences man to four years in jail for Tobacco Town warehouses fire

May 25, 2017May 27, 2017 The Sofia Globe staff Plovdiv

Plovdiv District Court sentenced Lyubomir Danchev (44) to four years in jail on May 25 2017, finding him guilty of

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