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Bulgarian school year starts on September 17

September 17, 2012September 17, 2012 The Sofia Globe staff

Education Minister Sergei Ignatov was scheduled to attend the official opening of the new school year at Thomas Jefferson Second

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Bulgaria Europe News 

Bulgarian President Plevneliev visiting Austria

September 17, 2012September 16, 2012 The Sofia Globe staff

Bulgarian President Rossen Plevneliev is on a working visit to Austria on September 17 and 18 2012, the President’s press

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Bulgaria Leisure News 

Plovdiv 2012 Night of Museums and Galleries being held on September 21

September 17, 2012September 16, 2012 The Sofia Globe staff

The 2012 Night of Museums and Galleries in Plovdiv on September 21 will feature more than six hours of cultural

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Bulgaria Leisure News 

Exhibition, jazz concert among events on September 17, Day of Sofia

September 17, 2012September 16, 2012 The Sofia Globe staff

An exhibition entitled “Europe ancient and modern, ecstatic and magical” (European tales and legends) opens on September 17 2012 at

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Bulgaria Leisure News 

International Festival of Glass Sofia 2012 opens on September 18

September 17, 2012September 16, 2012 The Sofia Globe staff

The 2012 International Festival of Glass Sofia, in which artists from the United States, Bulgaria, Israel and the Czech Republic

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Bulgaria Leisure News 

Spanish group Cie Delreves set for ‘vertical dance’ at NDK in Sofia

September 17, 2012September 16, 2012 The Sofia Globe staff

Spanish group Cie Delreves will perform their work Guateque, a “vertical dance” on a facade of the National Palace of

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Bulgaria 

Bourgas Airport terrorist attack was planned outside Bulgaria, top Interior Ministry official says

September 14, 2012 Clive Leviev-Sawyer

The July 2012 suicide bombing terrorist attack at Bulgaria’s Bourgas Airport, in which five Israelis and a Bulgarian died, had

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Bulgaria News 

Tearful US ambassador Warlick bids farewell to Bulgaria

September 14, 2012September 14, 2012 Clive Leviev-Sawyer

A tearful James Warlick struggled, and occasionally lost, in a battle to keep control of his emotions at a valedictory

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Bulgaria News 

Mild earth tremor recorded near Sofia

September 14, 2012September 14, 2012 The Sofia Globe staff

A mild earth tremor, estimated by the geophysical institute of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences at 2.6 magnitude on the

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