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Bulgaria high court dismisses CCB shareholders appeal

January 14, 2015January 16, 2015 The Sofia Globe staff CCB affair

Bulgaria’s Supreme Administrative Court (SAC) has dismissed the appeals lodged by several shareholders in the Corporate Commercial Bank (CCB) against

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Bulgaria 

Fire at hotel in Bansko

January 14, 2015 The Sofia Globe staff

A fire damaged the two upper floors and roof of the Chateau Vaptsarov hotel in Bulgaria’s winter resort town of

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Bulgaria 

Bulgarian PM, Patriarch condemn terrorism

January 13, 2015January 15, 2015 The Sofia Globe staff

At talks on January 13, Bulgarian Prime Minister Boiko Borissov and Bulgarian Orthodox Church head Patriarch Neofit strongly condemned all

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Bulgaria 

French national allegedly linked to Islamist extremists to face extradition hearing on January 16

January 13, 2015January 15, 2015 The Sofia Globe staff

A French national, Fritz Jolie Joaquin, arrested by Bulgarian authorities on the basis of a European warrant for allegedly abducting

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Bulgaria 

Pazardzhik mayor’s chief of staff shot dead

January 13, 2015January 15, 2015 The Sofia Globe staff

The chief of staff of the mayor of the Bulgarian town of Pazardzhik was shot dead on the night of

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Bulgaria 

Sofia prosecutors decline to investigate Peevski

January 13, 2015January 13, 2015 The Sofia Globe staff Peevski protests

Sofia City Prosecutor’s Office has declined to agree to a request by the Protest Network to investigate Delyan Peevski and

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Bulgaria 

Search for Sertov called off after former security agency chief returns to Bulgaria

January 12, 2015 The Sofia Globe staff

Bulgaria’s former State Agency for National Security chief Petko Sertov is off the missing persons list after returning to the

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Bulgarian PM Borissov to join European leaders at Unity rally in Paris

January 11, 2015January 15, 2015 The Sofia Globe staff Boiko Borissov

Bulgarian Prime Minister Boiko Borissov would take part in the Unity Rally in Paris on January 11, to express Bulgaria’s

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Bulgaria 

Bulgaria steps up security after Paris terrorist attacks

January 9, 2015 The Sofia Globe staff

The level of security at Bulgaria’s airports, sea ports, bus and railway stations as well as distribution centres for post

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