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Exhibition by photographer Doron Ritter opens at the Hungarian Cultural Institute in Sofia

March 6, 2018 The Sofia Globe staff

An exhibition by Hungarian photographer Doron Ritter of scenes and people of one of Jerusalem’s oldest Jewish neighbourhoods, Mea She’arim,

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Bulgaria 

Borissov and Putin discuss meeting during Bulgaria’s EU Presidency

March 5, 2018March 7, 2018 The Sofia Globe staff Boiko Borissov, Bulgaria EU presidency, energy, Russia

In a telephone conversation on March 5, Bulgarian Prime Minister Boiko Borissov and Russian president Vladimir Putin discussed meeting during

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Bulgaria Leisure 

Exhibition ‘Repentance – Memorial to the Victims of Communism’ opens at Sofia’s Raiko Alexiev Gallery on March 8

March 5, 2018March 7, 2018 The Sofia Globe staff Sofia

An exhibition by sculptor Andrei Vrabchev entitled “Repentance – Memorial to the Victims of Communism” opens at the Raiko Alexiev

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Bulgaria Leisure 

Exhibition ‘Five Portraits’ by Bulgarian photojournalists opens at National Gallery on March 8

March 5, 2018March 7, 2018 The Sofia Globe staff Sofia

An exhibition entitled “Five Portraits”, by Bulgarian photojournalists, opens at the National Art Gallery – The Palace in Sofia on

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Bulgaria 

Bird flu outbreak at poultry farm in town in north-eastern Bulgaria – Food Safety Agency

March 5, 2018March 6, 2018 The Sofia Globe staff

An outbreak of the highly pathogenic H5N8 type of bird flu has been detected at a poultry farm in the

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Bulgaria 

Bulgaria’s long weekend ends: Avalanche warnings, landslides and swollen rivers

March 5, 2018March 6, 2018 The Sofia Globe staff Sofia, tourism

Bulgaria approached the end of its Liberation Day long weekend on March 5, with warnings of avalanches in some mountain

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Bulgaria 

Russian Patriarch Kirill’s visit to Bulgaria for Liberation Day hit by controversies

March 4, 2018March 6, 2018 Clive Leviev-Sawyer Boiko Borissov, Bulgarian Orthodox Church, Roumen Radev, Russia

The visit by Russian Patriarch Kirill to Bulgaria for celebrations of the country’s 140th anniversary of liberation from Ottoman rule

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Bulgaria Leisure 

Sofia International Film Festival 2018 opens officially on March 7

March 4, 2018March 5, 2018 The Sofia Globe staff Sofia

The 22nd Sofia Film Festival opens on March 7 2018 in Hall 1 of the National Palace of Culture, NDK,

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Bulgaria 

Bulgaria heads for chilly Liberation Day long weekend

March 2, 2018March 5, 2018 The Sofia Globe staff tourism

Weather forecasts for Bulgaria’s long weekend around the March 3 Liberation Day national holiday foresee wintry conditions with rain and

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