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Bulgaria’s Poptodorova resigns from American Jewish Committee post in Warsaw

March 2, 2017March 9, 2017 The Sofia Globe staff

Bulgaria’s former ambassador to the United States, Elena Poptodorova, has resigned from her post as director of the American Jewish

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Good weather forecast as Bulgaria heads for March 3 national holiday long weekend

March 2, 2017March 9, 2017 The Sofia Globe staff

Bulgaria’s long weekend, from March 3 to 5 as the country celebrates its national day, was expected to see largely

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Borissov: If GERB comes second in elections, party will not attempt to form a government

March 2, 2017March 9, 2017 Independent Balkan News Agency Boiko Borissov, Bulgaria elections 2017

GERB leader Boiko Borissov said on March 2 that if his party comes second in the early parliamentary elections, it

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Bulgaria caretaker PM raises prospect of ERM2 application

March 1, 2017March 9, 2017 The Sofia Globe staff

Bulgaria’s caretaker Prime Minister Ognyan Gerdzhikov said on March 1 that his government had the “ambition” to submit a formal

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Political row erupts over proposed change of Bulgarian Defence Chief

March 1, 2017March 9, 2017 The Sofia Globe staff Bulgaria elections 2017, Nato, Roumen Radev

Bulgaria’s former governing party and former defence minister have expressed outrage at the caretaker Cabinet nomination of a new Defence

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Bulgarian President Radev names former State Security staffer as security and defence adviser

March 1, 2017March 9, 2017 The Sofia Globe staff Dossier Commission, Roumen Radev

Bulgarian President Roumen Radev has appointed Ilian Alipiev, formerly a member of the country’s communist-era secret service State Security’s counterintelligence

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Poptodorova’s airport incident: ‘honest mistake’ and ‘hybrid warfare’

March 1, 2017March 9, 2017 The Sofia Globe staff Nato, Poland, Russia

Bulgaria’s former ambassador to the United States, Elena Poptodorova, has described an incident at Warsaw Airport in which she was

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More than 44 400 Bulgarians have applied to vote abroad, most in Turkey

March 1, 2017March 9, 2017 The Sofia Globe staff Bulgaria elections 2017

More than 44 400 Bulgarians have submitted requests online to vote abroad in the March 26 early parliamentary elections, the

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Bulgaria’s ex-president Plevneliev not optimistic about formation of government after elections

March 1, 2017March 9, 2017 Independent Balkan News Agency Bulgaria elections 2017, Rossen Plevneliev

Bulgaria’s former president, Rossen Plevneliev, has become the latest to express pessimism about the prospects of the swift formation of

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