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Bulgarian police shut down ‘retro’ photo stall over Nazi uniforms

August 10, 2019August 15, 2019 The Sofia Globe staff Bulgarian Jews, tourism

Police in the Bulgarian Black Sea summer resort town of Sozopol have shut down a “retro” photo booth that had

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Bulgaria 

African Swine Fever: 80 000 pigs culled at two farms in Bulgaria’s Rousse

August 10, 2019August 12, 2019 The Sofia Globe staff African Swine Fever

The culling and burial of close to 80 000 pigs at two industrial pig farms in Bulgaria’s Rousse district where

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Bulgaria 

Deadline for EU nationals to register to vote in Bulgaria’s local elections is September 16

August 9, 2019August 14, 2019 The Sofia Globe staff Brexit

The deadline for nationals of other European Union countries resident in Bulgaria to register to vote in the country’s autumn

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Bulgaria 

Bulgarian television stations fined for breaking election laws

August 9, 2019 The Sofia Globe staff Bulgaria European elections 2019, Media

Bulgaria’s Central Election Commission (CEC) has confirmed its decisions imposing fines on two of the country’s major television stations, Nova

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Bulgaria’s election commission fines two nationalist politicians

August 9, 2019 The Sofia Globe staff Bulgaria European elections 2019

Bulgaria’s Central Election Commission (CEC) has imposed fines on nationalist VMRO party leader Krassimir Karachanov and MEP Angel Dzhambazki for

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Bulgaria 

US Navy destroyer USS Porter visits Bulgaria’s port of Varna

August 9, 2019August 9, 2019 The Sofia Globe staff Varna

The US Navy destroyer USS Porter is visiting Bulgaria’s main Black Sea port Varna as the Bulgarian Navy celebrates its

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Bulgaria 

African Swine Fever: Bulgaria confirms three new cases

August 8, 2019August 10, 2019 The Sofia Globe staff African Swine Fever

The Bulgarian Food Safety Agency said on August 8 that it had confirmed three new cases of African Swine Fever

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Bulgaria 

Archaeology: Bulgarian team finds parts of Serdica’s northern fortification walls

August 8, 2019August 11, 2019 The Sofia Globe staff archaeology, Sofia

Parts of the northern fortress walls of Serdica, an ancient name for Sofia, have been discovered by a team of

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Bulgaria 

Prosecutor-General urged to act against ‘National Resistance’ over anti-democratic ideology

August 8, 2019August 12, 2019 The Sofia Globe staff

Bulgarian Prosecutor-General Sotir Tsatsarov has been urged to take action under the country’s Penal Code against Blagovest Assenov, leader of

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