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Bulgaria’s Kristalina Georgieva is sole candidate to head IMF

September 9, 2019September 11, 2019 The Sofia Globe staff Kristalina Georgieva

Bulgaria’s Kristalina Georgieva is the sole candidate to be the next managing director of the International Monetary Fund, the IMF

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Bulgarian Jewish organisation rejects Russian historian’s claim Tsar and government prevented Holocaust in Bulgaria

September 9, 2019September 9, 2019 The Sofia Globe staff Bulgarian Jews

Bulgarian Jewish organisation “Shalom” has sharply rejected a claim by Russian historian Konstantin Mogilevskiy that there was no Holocaust in

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Bulgaria 

‘Homosoc’ exhibition to show findings about LGBTI life in communist Bulgaria

September 9, 2019September 11, 2019 The Sofia Globe staff Sofia Pride

An exhibition entitled “Homosoc” is to show the realities of life for LGBTI people in Bulgaria during the country’s communist

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75 years on, Bulgaria deeply divided over Soviet army invasion

September 9, 2019September 11, 2019 Clive Leviev-Sawyer

Some laid flowers in honour of the Soviet soldiers and others laid flowers in memory of the victims of communism.

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Bulgarian Prosecutor-General requests withdrawal of citizenship of two foreign-born nationals

September 9, 2019September 10, 2019 The Sofia Globe staff

Prosecutor-General Sotir Tsatsarov has requested that the Minister of Justice asks the President to revoke the citizenship of two foreign-born

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British Airways flights to and from Sofia Airport cancelled due to pilots strike

September 9, 2019September 9, 2019 The Sofia Globe staff

British Airways flights to and from Sofia Airport were cancelled on September 9 as BALPA union pilots began a two-day

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Bulgaria 

Archaeology: 6th century BCE bronze statuette found on Bulgaria’s Cyricus island

September 8, 2019September 10, 2019 The Sofia Globe staff archaeology

Archaeologists have found a bronze statuette of a ram’s head, said to date from the sixth century BCE, on St

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Bulgaria 

Central Synagogue in Bulgaria’s capital Sofia celebrating 110 years since inauguration

September 8, 2019September 15, 2019 Clive Leviev-Sawyer Bulgarian Jews, Sofia

September 9 marks the 110th anniversary of Sofia Central Synagogue, the building that is the spiritual home of the Bulgarian

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Bulgaria’s 2019 local elections: ‘No porno journalism’ campaign after site posts obscene photos

September 7, 2019September 10, 2019 The Sofia Globe staff Bulgaria local elections 2019, Media

The Association of European Journalists Bulgaria, media websites and the Association of Bulgarian Broadcasters have reacted sharply after a website

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