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Bulgaria’s Prosecutor-General: Probe Into “Investment Interests” Behind Tobacco Town Fire

August 23, 2016March 16, 2017 The Sofia Globe staff 0 Comments

Bulgarian Prosecutor-General Sotir Tsatsarov says that the investigation into the fire that gutted an ensemble of historic tobacco warehouses in

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Prominent Bulgarian TV presenter Dimitar Tsonev dies

August 23, 2016August 26, 2016 The Sofia Globe staff

Dimitar Tsonev, a prominent Bulgarian television journalist and former government spokesperson, died on August 23 at the age of 56,

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Bulgaria 

Prosecutor-General pledges probe into ‘investment interests’ behind Tobacco Town fire

August 23, 2016August 24, 2016 The Sofia Globe staff Plovdiv

Bulgarian Prosecutor-General Sotir Tsatsarov says that the investigation into the fire that gutted an ensemble of historic tobacco warehouses in

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Bulgaria 

Bulgarian Turkish daily newspaper Zaman-Bulgaria closes

August 23, 2016August 24, 2016 Independent Balkan News Agency Media, Turkey

Zaman Bulgaria, a dual Turkish and Bulgarian-language daily dating back more than 24 years, has announced that it is closing

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Bulgaria 

Number of migrant arrivals in Bulgaria drops in third week of August

August 23, 2016August 24, 2016 The Sofia Globe staff Europe migrant crisis

The number of migrants and refugees arriving in Bulgaria dropped sharply in the third week of August 2016, though the

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Bulgaria 

Plovdiv prosecutors charge man with arson of former tobacco warehouses

August 22, 2016 The Sofia Globe staff Plovdiv

Plovdiv Regional Prosecutor’s Office said on August 22 it had arrested and pressed charges of arson against a 44-year-old man

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Bulgaria 

A Monday in Sunny Beach: concession contract breaches, drug ring busts

August 22, 2016August 24, 2016 The Sofia Globe staff

Bulgaria’s Black Sea resort of Sunny Beach made the headlines twice in a day on August 22, and it was

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Bulgaria 

Bulgaria’s Culture Minister: Owners of Burnt-Out “Tobacco Town” Houses Must Rebuild them

August 22, 2016March 16, 2017 The Sofia Globe staff 0 Comments

As a few embers still smouldered in the Plovdiv “Tobacco Town” warehouses devastated by fire two days earlier, Bulgaria’s Culture

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Bulgaria 

Culture Minister: Owners of burnt-out ‘Tobacco Town’ houses must rebuild them

August 22, 2016August 23, 2016 The Sofia Globe staff Plovdiv

As a few embers still smouldered in the Plovdiv “Tobacco Town” warehouses devastated by fire two days earlier, Bulgaria’s Culture

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