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‘Flamenco with Antonio Heredia’ performances in Sofia and Plovdiv

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

Flamenco star Antonio Heredia and his band are to give a concert in Sofia and Plovdiv on September 20 in

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Bulgaria Europe News 

Bulgarian FM Mladenov speaks on Macedonia’s ‘Third Half’ film controversy

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

Macedonia’s controversial film Third Half, which emphasises Bulgaria’s World War 2 role in the deportation to Nazi death camps of

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Bulgaria Europe News 

Election results in Netherlands could mean step forward for Bulgaria’s Schengen entry, Tsvetanov says

September 14, 2012June 2, 2013 The Sofia Globe staff Schengen, Tsvetan Tsvetanov

The outcome of the September 12 2012 elections in the Netherlands, in which prime minister Mark Rutte’s liberal VVD party

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Bulgaria News Perspectives 

Thoroughly red in black and white: A journey through Bulgaria’s communist archives

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

The hours after midnight tread by unheeded in this journey through another era, another dimension in which the language of

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Bulgaria News 

Mixed reactions to Bulgarian judicial council nominee hearings

September 14, 2012May 22, 2013 The Sofia Globe staff judiciary

Bulgaria’s outgoing prosecutor-general Boris Velchev and Justice Minister Diana Kovacheva offered a less-than-glowing endorsement of the public hearings held in

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Bulgaria Leisure News 

Archaeology: Byzantine coins found at dig at Bulgaria’s Misionis fortress

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

Archaeologists working at the site of the Misionis fortress near the town of Turgovishte in Bulgaria said that summer 2012

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Bulgaria News 

Sofia city hall sticks to paid parking areas plan

September 13, 2012 The Sofia Globe staff

Sofia municipal council voted on September 13 to keep the controversial plans that have raised the ire of residents of

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Bulgaria Business News Perspectives 

Fighting words: Bulgaria talks tough on Russian energy projects

September 13, 2012June 2, 2013 Alex Bivol Belene, Boiko Borissov, energy, Russia, Simeon Dyankov, South Stream

Vladimir Putin raised quite a few eyebrows when his last foreign visit as president of Russia in 2008 was to

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Bulgaria Leisure News 

Retrospective exhibition celebrates 60th anniversary of Sofia City Art Gallery

September 13, 2012September 13, 2012 The Sofia Globe staff

Sofia City Art Gallery is celebrating its 60th anniversary with a large retrospective exhibition called “А рossible history”. Three hundred paintings

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