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Sofia City Court orders Dogan’s attacker to remain in custody

January 29, 2013 The Sofia Globe staff

In a ruling on January 29 2013, Sofia City Court ordered Oktai Enimehmedov, the 25-year-old seen pointing a gas pistol

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Bulgaria’s nuclear referendum question heads for Parliament after voter turnout exceeds threshold – just

January 29, 2013January 29, 2013 The Sofia Globe staff

Voter turnout in Bulgaria’s January 27 2013 referendum has scraped past the 20 per cent threshold for the question in

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Bulgaria high court rejects asset forfeiture suit against runaway ‘Galevi brothers’

January 29, 2013May 22, 2013 The Sofia Globe staff judiciary

Bulgaria’s Supreme Court of Cassation (SCC) ruled to return to prosecutors the suit to seize the assets of the “Galevi

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Bulgarian drug gang leader wounded in central Sofia shooting

January 29, 2013January 29, 2013 The Sofia Globe staff

Zlatomir Ivanov, who was sentenced to eight years in jail for organising a crime group to distribute drugs, was shot

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Europe does not know enough about what Bulgaria did to save Jews from Holocaust death camps, President Plevneliev says in Paris

January 28, 2013March 10, 2016 The Sofia Globe staff Bulgarian Jews

Europe does not know what Bulgaria did to save Bulgarian Jews from Holocaust death camps, Bulgarian President Rossen Plevneliev said

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Bulgarian PM Borissov fires Education Minister, head of energy regulator

January 28, 2013January 28, 2013 The Sofia Globe staff

Bulgarian Prime Minister Boiko Borissov swung the axe on January 28 2013, dismissing Education Minister Sergei Ignatov in the wake

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Bulgaria reports gloomier business climate in January 2013

January 28, 2013 The Sofia Globe staff

Bulgaria’s business climate indicator in January 2013 was 3.2 per cent percentage points lower than the December 2012 figure because

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Bulgarian regulator clears NBG, Eurobank units merger

January 28, 2013 The Sofia Globe staff

Bulgaria’s Commission for Protection of Competition (CPC) said on January 28 that it approved the acquisition of EFG Eurobank Ergasias

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Flop or not? Official figures of turnout in Bulgaria’s nuclear referendum awaited

January 28, 2013January 28, 2013 The Sofia Globe staff

On the day after Bulgaria’s referendum on whether to build a new nuclear power station, the Central Election Commission was

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