Bulgaria falls in 2013 World Press Freedom Index
Bulgaria has dropped seven places to rank 80th in the 2013 World Press Freedom Index compiled by Reporters Without Borders.
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To pay or not to pay Gazprom, that’s the $7 billion question
With Russia sticking Ukraine with a $7 billion bill for not purchasing enough of its above market-priced natural gas last
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Facts about Russian Gazprom’s $7 billion bill to Ukraine’s Naftogaz
Just hours before Ukraine signed a $10 billion deal with Royal Dutch Shell on Jan. 24 to extract shale gas
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Europe does not know enough about what Bulgaria did to save Jews from Holocaust death camps, President Plevneliev says in Paris
Europe does not know what Bulgaria did to save Bulgarian Jews from Holocaust death camps, Bulgarian President Rossen Plevneliev said
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Bulgarian regulator clears NBG, Eurobank units merger
Bulgaria’s Commission for Protection of Competition (CPC) said on January 28 that it approved the acquisition of EFG Eurobank Ergasias
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Poland votes down same-sex civil unions
The lower house of the Polish parliament Sejm rejected on Friday three bills on civil unions that would have recognized
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Russia Watch: Obama II downgrades relations with Russia’s Kremlin?
Scenes from three weeks of watching US-Russia relations in New York, Washington and Moscow: Kate, an old high school
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EU ambassador in Kyiv: Tymoshenko, Lutsenko among ‘biggest burdens’ for Ukraine
Jan Tombinski took up the post of European Union ambassador to Ukraine in September as Ukraine’s relations with the 27-nation
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Dave the Hero! Hungary’s Jobbik applauds EU referendum plan in UK
British Prime Minister David Cameron may unwittingly have become a poster boy for Europe’s extreme right after promising a referendum
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