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‘So Independent’ Film Festival for a third year in Sofia

October 21, 2012October 21, 2012 The Sofia Globe staff

The Sofia Independent Film Festival takes place in Sofia for a third consecutive year. It starts on October 25 and

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Bulgaria 

More traffic fines will chase down drivers across borders

October 21, 2012October 21, 2012 The Budapest Times

While motorists parking illegally with a foreign licence plate in Bulgaria, Croatia, Austria and Hungary will mostly remain unpunished, residents

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Bulgaria News 

Bulgarian Border Police arrest 41 for illegal border-crossing

October 21, 2012October 21, 2012 The Sofia Globe staff

Bulgarian Border Police arrested 41 people for illegal crossing the border into the country between 8am on October 20 2012

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Bulgaria News 

Bulgarian Transport Minister slightly injured in car collision

October 19, 2012 The Sofia Globe staff

Bulgarian Transport Minister Ivailo Moskovski was slightly injured when the car in which he was travelling was involved in a

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Bulgaria News 

Protesters disrupt conference on Bulgaria’s communist-era culture minister Lyudmila Zhivkova

October 19, 2012October 20, 2012 The Sofia Globe staff

Cacophony erupted in a Sofia University lecture room when protesters disrupted the opening of a conference on Lyudmila Zhivkova, culture

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Bulgaria News 

Bulgarian actor to be prosecuted for illegal movie uploads

October 19, 2012 The Sofia Globe staff

Bulgarian anti-mafia and computer crime police have pressed charges against a 33-year-old actor after raiding his home in an investigation

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Bulgaria Europe News 

German police bust Bulgarian gang trafficking women for prostitution

October 19, 2012 The Sofia Globe staff

Police in Bremen and Lower Saxony Stuhr arrested six people alleged to be members of a Bulgarian gang bringing women

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Bulgaria News 

Bulgarian referendum question on Belene will not mention Belene, majority in parliamentary committee decides

October 19, 2012October 19, 2012 Clive Leviev-Sawyer

The latest twist in the plan for Bulgarians to vote in a referendum on whether to build Belene nuclear power

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Bulgaria News Perspectives 

The Belene nuclear project, Bulgaria’s radioactive political issue

October 19, 2012June 2, 2013 Clive Leviev-Sawyer Belene, Boiko Borissov, nuclear, Rossen Plevneliev, Sergei Stanishev

The farce into which Bulgaria’s planned national referendum on whether to proceed with the Belene nuclear power station has rapidly

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