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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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Bulgaria 

Fire at Plovdiv’s “Tobacco Town” Warehouses: Public Outrage Over Inferno

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

The huge fire that devastated historic warehouses in the Tobacco Town precinct of Plovdiv has sparked a wave of public

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Bulgaria 

Public outrage over inferno at Plovdiv’s ‘Tobacco Town’ warehouses

August 21, 2016August 23, 2016 The Sofia Globe staff Plovdiv

The huge fire that devastated historic warehouses in the Tobacco Town precinct of Plovdiv has sparked a wave of public

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Bulgaria 

Fire at historic tobacco warehouses in Plovdiv

August 20, 2016August 23, 2016 The Sofia Globe staff Plovdiv

More than 10 firefighting teams were battling a blaze in abandoned warehouses in the “Tobacco Town” precinct of Bulgaria’s second

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Bulgaria 

Bulgarian EU presidency ‘to cost 150M leva’

August 19, 2016August 23, 2016 Independent Balkan News Agency

The Bulgarian presidency of the European Union, scheduled for the first half of 2018, will cost the country about 150

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Bulgaria 

Bulgarian Interior Ministry chief: ‘Aggressive’ migrants coming into country

August 19, 2016August 22, 2016 The Sofia Globe staff Europe migrant crisis, Turkey

The profile of migrants crossing illegally into Bulgaria has changed, to men who are “aggressive”, the country’s Interior Ministry chief

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Bulgaria 

Bulgarian police arrest man over illegal possession of ancient coins

August 19, 2016August 22, 2016 The Sofia Globe staff Varna

Bulgarian police arrested a 51-year-old man in the Black Sea town of Byala after he was found in possession of

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