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Film review: Hitchcock

February 8, 2013February 7, 2013 Andre Crous of The Prague Post

Hitchcock doesn’t show us what a great man the Master of Suspense was as much as it shows us what

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Wine: Growing Slovakia’s wide range of grape varieties

February 7, 2013May 6, 2013 Jana Liptakova of the Slovak Spectator

Have you ever tasted Hron, or Devín? This is not an invitation to drink from the waters of the Hron

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Saxony: Wine has flourished where the wall couldn’t manage

February 7, 2013May 6, 2013 John and Helena Baker for The Prague Post

From Prague, the nearest foreign wine region lies just a little more than 70 miles (120 km) to the north.

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Bulgarian transport minister Ivailo Moskovski inspects new BDZ sleeping cars
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Bulgarian state railways’ new sleeping cars to come into service in March 2013, Transport Minister says

February 4, 2013February 4, 2013 The Sofia Globe staff

Bulgarian state railways BDZ’s 30 new sleeping cars, which Transport Minister Ivailo Moskovski took delivery of amid much fanfare in

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Travel: Game changing

February 1, 2013February 1, 2013 Mark Thomas

Airlines such as Lufthansa, Air France and BA have one problem with their European flights; they lose money with them

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Film review: Gangster Squad

January 31, 2013January 31, 2013 Andre Crous of The Prague Post

Gangster Squad is a big-budget film about the organized crime that nearly brought Los Angeles to a standstill in 1949.

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Bulgaria will give 3.5M leva to Valley of Thracian Kings tourism and archaeology project, Finance Minister says

January 30, 2013June 2, 2013 The Sofia Globe staff Simeon Dyankov

Bulgaria’s Cabinet will contribute three and a half million leva (about 1.75 million euro) towards a tourism and archaeological project

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International tourism rebounding from global economic crisis, UN World Tourism Organisation says

January 30, 2013 The Sofia Globe staff

In spite of lingering economic instability because of the global financial crisis, international tourism increased robustly over the past year

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Film review: Lincoln

January 25, 2013January 24, 2013 Andre Crous of The Prague Post

A rumor is currently doing the rounds that U.S. President Barack Obama invited a number of members of Congress to

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