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Energy issues expected to dominate Putin-Borissov meeting in Moscow

May 30, 2018June 1, 2018 The Sofia Globe staff Boiko Borissov, energy, Russia

Bulgarian Prime Minister Boiko Borissov was expected to lobby for direct Russian natural gas deliveries to the planned Balkan gas

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Bulgaria high court challenges constitutionality of bank insolvency law amendments

May 30, 2018June 1, 2018 The Sofia Globe staff CCB affair

Bulgaria’s Constitutional Court will rule on whether amendments to Bulgaria’s bank insolvency law, passed by Parliament earlier this year, breach

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Bulgarian Foreign Ministry condemns shelling attack on Israel from Gaza

May 30, 2018May 31, 2018 The Sofia Globe staff Israel

Bulgaria’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs said on May 30 that it strongly condemned the rocket and mortar fire by armed

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US State Department report notes assaults, harassment of minority religions in Bulgaria

May 30, 2018May 30, 2018 The Sofia Globe staff Bulgarian Jews

Muslims, Mormons, and Jehovah’s Witnesses reported multiple cases of physical assaults, harassment, and threats against members of their communities in

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One third of Bulgarians in arrears with payments

May 29, 2018May 30, 2018 The Sofia Globe staff

About a third of Bulgarians – 34.2 per cent – were in arrears with payments of mortgage, rent, utility bills

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Bulgaria 

Bulgarian, Turkish interior ministers meet over border security and co-operation

May 29, 2018 Independent Balkan News Agency Turkey

Bulgarian Interior Minister Valentin Radev and his Turkish counterpart Süleyman Soylu met in Edirne on May 29 for a workshop

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More than 12% of Bulgarians of working age live in another EU country – Eurostat

May 28, 2018May 30, 2018 The Sofia Globe staff Eurostat

About 12.5 per cent of Bulgarians of working age – defined as 20 to 64 – were living in another

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Annual ‘Opera in the Park’ in Sofia from June 15 to 30 2018

May 28, 2018 The Sofia Globe staff

Sofia Opera and Ballet’s annual Opera in the Park series of performances is being held in the GS Rakovski military

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Bulgaria Leisure 

Opera Open 2018 begins in Plovdiv on June 23

May 28, 2018May 30, 2018 The Sofia Globe staff Plovdiv

The programme for Opera Open 2018, from June 23 to July 29, has been announced by State Opera Plovdiv. The

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