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6000 military personnel to take part in Nato exercise in Bulgaria in May-June 2019

May 13, 2019May 15, 2019 The Sofia Globe staff Nato

At the initiative of Nato, a series of national and multinational military exercises will be held in Bulgaria, Romania, Hungary,

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Bulgaria’s European Parliament elections: GERB lodges complaint against President for ‘electioneering’

May 13, 2019May 15, 2019 The Sofia Globe staff Boiko Borissov, Bulgarian European elections 2019, Roumen Radev

Bulgarian Prime Minister Boiko Borissov’s GERB party lodged a complaint with the Central Election Commission against President Roumen Radev on

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Turkish ambassador tells Bulgarian Foreign Ministry his words were distorted by the media

May 13, 2019May 14, 2019 Independent Balkan News Agency Turkey

Turkish ambassador Hasan Ulusoy, at the centre of a controversy about his reported call to boost the teaching of Turkish

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Bulgaria’s exports in January – March 2019 up by 8.9% on annual basis

May 13, 2019 Independent Balkan News Agency macroeconomic indicators

In January – March 2019, the total value of all goods exported from Bulgaria amounted to 13 942.1 million leva,

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Bulgaria, Latvia have lowest life expectancy in EU – statistics institute

May 13, 2019May 14, 2019 The Sofia Globe staff

In the period 2016 – 2018, life expectancy at birth in Bulgaria was 74.8 years, the National Statistical Institute (NSI)

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From Bulgaria to birds: Dinosaurs a drawcard at 2019 Sofia Science Festival

May 12, 2019May 16, 2019 The Sofia Globe staff Sofia Science Festival

Nothing fills a hall like a dinosaur. Especially in the popular imagination which immediately pictures a Tyrannosaurus rex. But there

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Bulgaria summons Turkish ambassador over reported call to encourage study of Turkish language

May 12, 2019May 13, 2019 Independent Balkan News Agency Boiko Borissov, Bulgaria European elections 2019, Kornelia Ninova, Turkey

Political controversy has erupted in Bulgaria over reported comments by Turkish ambassador Hasan Ulusoy calling on the state to encourage

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Exhibition ‘Modernism and avant-garde. The Bulgarian Perspective. The Nikolai Nedelchev Collection’ opens on May 30

May 11, 2019May 14, 2019 The Sofia Globe staff

An exhibition entitled “Modernism and avant-garde. The Bulgarian Perspective. The Nikolai Nedelchev Collection” opens at the Struktura Gallery in Sofia

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Bulgaria’s European Parliament election: PM has not broken campaign rules, election commission says

May 10, 2019 The Sofia Globe staff Boiko Borissov, Bulgarian European elections 2019, Kornelia Ninova

The Central Election Commission has rejected a claim by the Bulgarian Socialist Party (BSP) that Prime Minister Boiko Borissov has

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