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Bulgaria’s first snow: more traffic disruptions and blackouts

November 28, 2013November 28, 2013 The Sofia Globe staff

After two days of intermittent snowfall, new reports of traffic disruptions and villages without power in Bulgaria emerged on November

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Bulgaria 

Bulgaria’s first snow: blackouts, traffic and flight disruptions

November 27, 2013November 27, 2013 The Sofia Globe staff

The first snowfall of the winter in Bulgaria resulted in a familiar picture – traffic disruptions and reports of rural

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Bulgaria 

Bid to overturn presidential veto of Foreigners Act amendments fails

November 27, 2013February 11, 2014 The Sofia Globe staff Rossen Plevneliev

A bid by the Bulgarian Socialist Party and Movement for Rights and Freedoms to overturn President Rossen Plevneliev’s veto of

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The headquarters in Sofia of the Holy Synod of the Bulgarian Orthodox Church. Photo: Clive Leviev-Sawyer
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Bulgarian bishop to face ecclesiastical court for libel and damaging church’s reputation

November 26, 2013 The Sofia Globe staff Bulgarian Orthodox Church, Varna

Ignatii, vicar of the Sliven bishopric and previously elected one of two candidates to be the next Metropolitan of Varna,

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Bulgaria 

Fourth-century CE magistrate statue uncovered in Bulgaria’s Plovdiv

November 26, 2013November 26, 2013 The Sofia Globe staff archaeology, Plovdiv

Archaeologists working on the digs at the Roman-era forum in Bulgaria’s second-largest city of Plovdiv have uncovered a full-size statue,

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Bulgaria 

Bulgarian Economy Minister defensive over Westinghouse promise

November 25, 2013December 11, 2013 Independent Balkan News Agency energy, nuclear

Mere days after returning from a trip to the US, during which he met representatives of several corporations to discuss

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Bulgaria 

Bulgaria’s road agency warns motorists to switch to snow tyres

November 25, 2013February 11, 2014 The Sofia Globe staff

Bulgaria’s Road Infrastructure Agency said on November 25 that motorists in the country should be prepared to use snow tyres

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Bulgaria 

Presidential send-off for Bulgaria’s Antarctic mission

November 25, 2013November 25, 2013 The Sofia Globe staff Rossen Plevneliev

Bulgaria’s Antarctic mission, set to depart for the Southern Hemisphere in early December, got its traditional send-off at the presidency

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Bulgaria 

Noises off: Some within Bulgaria’s ruling axis talk of early elections

November 25, 2013February 11, 2014 Clive Leviev-Sawyer Peevski protests, Sergei Stanishev, Volen Siderov

While the current Bulgarian Socialist Party government is adamantly refusing to bow to months of popularly-supported public protests demanding its

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