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Moscow asks Washington to end USAID programmes in Russia

September 19, 2012 James Brooke VOA Moscow Bureau Chief

Russian President Vladimir Putin has enacted a series of restrictive laws since returning to office in May.  He and the

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Bulgaria News 

Bulgarian court hears lawsuit against alleged radical Islam group

September 18, 2012September 19, 2012 The Sofia Globe staff

A Bulgarian court in the town of Pazardjik, in southern Bulgaria, held on September 18 the first hearing in a

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Europe News 

Romanian ‘super-laser’ given EU funding

September 18, 2012May 22, 2013 The Sofia Globe staff

The European Commission said on September 18 that it has approved 180 million euro in funding for a cutting-edge research

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Bulgaria News 

Planned move of Bulgarian Customs Agency HQ to Rousse put on hold – for some years

September 18, 2012September 18, 2012 The Sofia Globe staff

Less than a day after Finance Minister Simeon Dyankov vowed that the controversial plan to move the headquarters of Bulgaria’s

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Russia Watch: ‘Russia’s Tibet’ opens to the outside world

September 18, 2012 James Brooke VOA Moscow Bureau Chief

Word of the killings of four American diplomats in Libya took 24 hours to reach me last week. That was

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Austrian, Bulgarian firms sign 30 million euro contract during Bulgarian President’s visit to Vienna

September 18, 2012 The Sofia Globe staff

An Austrian-Bulgarian business forum in Vienna heard Bulgarian President Rossen Plevneliev underline his message that his country is a stable

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New car sales in Bulgaria slightly up, bucking EU trend

September 18, 2012May 22, 2013 The Sofia Globe staff

Sales of new cars in Bulgaria from January to August 2012 were 2.1 per cent higher than in the first

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Bulgaria News Perspectives 

Bulgaria’s smoking schizophrenia

September 18, 2012 Clive Leviev-Sawyer

Bulgaria, which a few months ago enacted tough new laws against smoking in public places, has vowed to defend its

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Bulgaria reiterates reluctance to join EU banking union

September 18, 2012May 22, 2013 The Sofia Globe staff

Bulgaria supports the idea of a European Union banking union but it would not be the interest of the country

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