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Bulgaria calls for thorough investigation into fatal clash between police and armed group in Macedonia’s Kumanovo

May 10, 2015May 12, 2015 The Sofia Globe staff Macedonia

The gun battle in the northern Macedonian town of Kumanovo that left five police dead, more than 30 injured and

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Bulgaria 

Bulgaria to increase staff to issue visas to Russian and Ukrainian tourists

May 9, 2015 The Sofia Globe staff tourism

Bulgaria is to post additional staff to consular offices in Moscow, St Petersburg, Kyiv and Odessa to meet the expected

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Bulgaria 

Don’t call me king during liturgies, Saxe-Coburg tells Bulgarian Orthodox Church

May 9, 2015May 12, 2015 The Sofia Globe staff Bulgarian Orthodox Church

Bulgaria’s former monarch and former prime minister Simeon Saxe-Coburg has written to the Bulgarian Orthodox Church’s governing body the Holy

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Bulgaria 

Bulgaria’s political divisions over Europe Day, VE Day and the show in Moscow

May 9, 2015May 12, 2015 The Sofia Globe staff Rossen Plevneliev, Russia

Bulgarian head of state President Rossen Plevneliev took part on May 9 in a succession of events to celebrate Europe

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Of paper and the problem of digital disintegration

May 9, 2015May 4, 2016 Clive Leviev-Sawyer Sofia Science Festival

An invitation to bring a favourite book to a scientific lecture is unusual. But it is not as if you

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Bulgaria 

Bulgarian Parliament adopts declaration on 70th anniversary of World War 2 surrender of Nazi Germany

May 8, 2015May 10, 2015 The Sofia Globe staff

Bulgaria’s National Assembly adopted a formal declaration on May 8 2015 on the 70th anniversary of the surrender by Nazi

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Bulgaria 

Bulgarian PM congratulates David Cameron on re-election victory

May 8, 2015May 8, 2015 The Sofia Globe staff

Bulgarian Prime Minister Boiko Borissov added his voice to the stream of messages from right-of-centre European leaders to congratulate British

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Bulgaria 

Bulgarians favour introduction of euro, but feel country not ready – survey

May 8, 2015May 10, 2015 The Sofia Globe staff euro zone

Bulgarian respondents in an Eurobarometer survey released on May 8 were broadly in favour of the country adopting the common

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Bulgaria 

Bulgarian government claims ‘progress’ in Roma integration strategy

May 8, 2015 Independent Balkan News Agency

Bulgaria’s cabinet has approved a report that sees “progress” in some areas of the country’s plan for Roma integration. The

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