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Bulgaria sees sanctions on Russia as a tool to change Moscow’s policies, Mitov tells German FM

April 13, 2016April 15, 2016 Independent Balkan News Agency Russia

Bulgaria sees sanctions against Russia as an effective tool to change the policies of Moscow, not as a punishment of

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Bulgaria 

Bulgarian PM on ‘migrant hunters’: ‘No one has the right to arrest outside the law’

April 13, 2016April 15, 2016 The Sofia Globe staff Boiko Borissov, Europe migrant crisis

In his latest comment on civilian groups intercepting migrants and refugees near the country’s borders, Bulgarian Prime Minister Boiko Borissov

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Bulgarian ‘migrant hunter’ threatened Afghans with a knife and a pistol

April 13, 2016April 14, 2016 The Sofia Globe staff Europe migrant crisis

Bulgarian “migrant hunter” Petar “The Feathers” Nizamov threatened a group of men from Afghanistan with a knife and a pistol

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Bulgarian soldiers holding Kalashnikov semi automatic rifles
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Bulgarian Cabinet approves national defence strategy

April 13, 2016April 14, 2016 The Sofia Globe staff Nato

Bulgaria’s Cabinet adopted on April 13 a national defence strategy, based on a mid-term review in 2015 of a strategy

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Bulgaria 

Shoring up partly-demolished tobacco warehouse in Plovdiv to cost 100 000 leva – mayor

April 13, 2016April 14, 2016 The Sofia Globe staff Plovdiv

Strengthening the structure of the partly-demolished historic tobacco warehouse at Plovdiv’s 8 Odrin Street in the city’s “Tobacco Town” area

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Bulgaria 

Interior Minister: Traffic of refugees to Bulgaria down by 36%

April 13, 2016April 14, 2016 The Sofia Globe staff Europe migrant crisis

Compared to 2015, the reduction in traffic of refugees to Bulgaria is down by about 36 per cent, Bulgaria’s Interior

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Bulgaria 

Bokova at the UN: Fog over Turtle Bay

April 13, 2016April 17, 2016 Clive Leviev-Sawyer Irina Bokova

Perish the thought that as an institution, the United Nations has a dire shortage of platitudes, buzzwords and vague good

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Bulgaria 

Turkey, Bulgaria pledge co-operation on migration, fighting organised crime

April 12, 2016April 13, 2016 Independent Balkan News Agency Europe migrant crisis, Turkey

The migration crisis and the fight against terrorism and organised crime have topped the agenda of talks in Sofia between

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Bulgaria 

Bulgaria arrests ‘migrant hunter’

April 12, 2016April 13, 2016 The Sofia Globe staff Europe migrant crisis

Petar “The Feathers” Nizamov, allegedly part of a vigilante group that illegally detained migrants near the Bulgarian border, has been

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