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John Travolta arrives in Bulgaria for filming of the Killing Season

October 8, 2012 The Sofia Globe staff

Hollywood star John Travolta arrived at Sofia Airport on October 8 to head for Nu Boyana studios and his role

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Bulgaria News 

Teachers’ salaries in Bulgaria to rise about 5% from January 1 – Education Minister

October 8, 2012 The Sofia Globe staff

Salaries of teachers in Bulgaria will increase by about five per cent from January 1 2012, Education Minister Sergei Ignatov

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Bulgaria News 

Archaeology: Europe’s ‘oldest town’ found near Bulgaria’s Varna, professor says

October 8, 2012 The Sofia Globe staff

Europe’s oldest urban settlement is near Provadia, a town of about 13 000 people about 40km inland from Bulgaria’s Black

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Bulgarian Foreign Minister Nickolay Mladenov
Bulgaria Europe News 

No chance of UK bringing back visas for Bulgarians and Romanians, Bulgarian FM Mladenov says

October 8, 2012May 22, 2013 The Sofia Globe staff

There is no chance of the United Kingdom bringing back visa requirements for Bulgarians and Romanians, Bulgarian Foreign Minister Nikolai

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Europe News 

Ukraine draft law banning homosexual references violates freedom of expression, UN says

October 8, 2012October 8, 2012 The Sofia Globe staff

A new draft law criminalising any reference to homosexuality in the media or public domain violates Ukraine’s commitment to freedom

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Europe News 

Germany’s Merkel to visit Greece on October 9

October 8, 2012May 22, 2013 VOANews

German Chancellor Angela Merkel says she will visit Athens next week, her first visit to debt-ridden Greece since the three-year

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Europe News People 

Ferenc Gyurcsány – still a divisive figure

October 8, 2012October 8, 2012 The Budapest Times

Is there anything you find good about the policies of Viktor Orbán’s government? The ban on lorries overtaking on the

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Europe News World 

Turkey returns fire at Syria in new border incident

October 8, 2012October 8, 2012 VOANews

Turkey launched retaliatory artillery fire at Syria for a fifth straight day Sunday after a new mortar round struck the

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Europe News Perspectives 

Macedonia: Looking upon lustration

October 5, 2012October 5, 2012 Clive Leviev-Sawyer

It is unthinkable that anywhere in the former communist countries of Eastern Europe a process of public disclosures about those

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