Bulgaria’s Media Wars 2: The bashing of bTV
The slogan of bTV, Bulgaria’s most-viewed privately-owned television channel, is “all points of view”. The channel, which ratings claim to
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Seven arrested in Bulgarian cigarette smuggling ring bust
Seven people were arrested on June 28 during a series of police raids aimed at busting a large cigarette-smuggling operation,
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European Commission proposes measures against tax fraud and evasion
Minimum sanctions for tax crimes, a cross-border tax identification number, a European Union tax-payer’s charter and stronger common measures against tax
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Human Rights Watch asks Bulgaria to denounce calls to stone gays
Human Rights Watch asked Bulgaria’s Justice Minister Diana Kovacheva to denounce an orthodox priest’s calls that anyone participating in the
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Bulgaria moves to grant refugees EU resident status
Bulgaria’s Cabinet approved on June 27 amendments to the Foreigners Act that will give refugees and other beneficiaries of international
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Bulgarian among 24 arrested in international operation against ‘carding’ group
A Bulgarian was among 24 people arrested in a major international operation against a “carding” scheme, offences in which the
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Key European leaders call for tighter financial control
Key European leaders are calling for much tighter central control of spending by the 17 countries that use the euro
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Russia Watch: Putin the Permissive and Russian football hooligans
The world may indeed be flat. Several thousand Russians recently traveled to the western edge of their country – and
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Erdogan warns Damascus of Turkey’s ‘wrath’
Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan is ratcheting up the pressure on Syria over the shooting down of a Turkish
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