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Bulgarian nationalist newspaper becomes latest to cease publication

August 26, 2016 Independent Balkan News Agency Media

Bulgarian nationalist weekly Desant, owned by National Front for the Salvation of Bulgaria leader Valeri Simeonov and self-described as a

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Bulgaria 

Plovdiv prosecutors order burnt-out tobacco warehouses shored up

August 26, 2016August 29, 2016 The Sofia Globe staff Plovdiv

Prosecutors in Bulgaria’s second city Plovdiv have told municipal and national authorities to organise emergency temporary strengthening of the Tobacco Town

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Sofia Restaurant Week in September 2016 – the menus

August 26, 2016August 31, 2016 The Sofia Globe staff

Excitement is building ahead of the inaugural Sofia Restaurant Week – and eager diners can now scan the menus online

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Bulgaria Now podcast: No smoke without fire

August 26, 2016August 30, 2016 The Sofia Globe staff Bulgaria Now Podcast, Lance Nelson, Plovdiv

The fire that gutted historic former tobacco warehouses in Plovdiv is the talk of the town – and the country,

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Bulgaria 

Lawyers: Accused in Plovdiv’s Tobacco Town fire case is a ‘scapegoat’

August 25, 2016August 28, 2016 The Sofia Globe staff Plovdiv

Lawyers for Lyubomir Danchev, the 44-year-old man charged with arson in connection with the August 20 burning of four historic

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Bulgaria 

Bulgarian PM Borissov to meet Turkish counterpart in Istanbul

August 24, 2016 Independent Balkan News Agency Boiko Borissov, Europe migrant crisis, Turkey

Bulgarian Prime Minister Boiko Borissov will meet on August 26 in Istanbul with his Turkish counterpart Binali Yildirim, who requested

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Bulgaria 

Bulgaria’s presidential elections: Red Baron loses a wing

August 24, 2016August 28, 2016 Clive Leviev-Sawyer Bulgaria elections 2016

Assuming he has some familiarity with quotations from military history, Roumen Radev, the former general and now presidential candidate of

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Bulgaria 

Two US aircraft to participate in securing Bulgaria’s air space

August 24, 2016August 26, 2016 The Sofia Globe staff Nato, Poland

Two United States military aircraft will participate in securing Bulgaria’s air space from September 9 to 16, Defence Minister Nikolai

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Bulgarian socialist parties’ presidential electoral alliance fractures into acrimony

August 24, 2016August 28, 2016 Independent Balkan News Agency Bulgaria elections 2016, Georgi Purvanov

The presidential electoral alliance between two of Bulgaria’s socialist parties, that briefly seemed to have seen them drawing closer together,

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