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‘Special services’ of Sofia traffic police cost from 50 to 500 leva – report

March 8, 2013May 27, 2013 The Sofia Globe staff Sofia

Employees of Sofia’s traffic police department accept from 50 to 500 leva (about 25 to 250 euro) for various “special

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Bulgaria’s Vayant announces Lufthansa partnership

March 8, 2013March 8, 2013 The Sofia Globe staff

Bulgarian IT solutions provider Vayant, which specialises in business-to-business airfare shopping, has become the new technology partner of Lufthansa, the

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Bulgaria News 

Bulgarian Patriarch Neofit calls on protesters not to commit suicide

March 8, 2013June 2, 2013 The Sofia Globe staff Bulgarian Orthodox Church

Bulgarian Orthodox Church Patriarch Neofit has called on protesters not to go to the extreme of committing suicide, an appeal

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The world’s statements and statistics on International Women’s Day 2013

March 8, 2013May 22, 2013 The Sofia Globe staff

On the eve of International Women’s Day, March 8 2013, a new Eurobarometer shows that 78 per cent of Europeans

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‘A nation that showed courage’: Bulgaria and the Jews

March 8, 2013May 27, 2013 Clive Leviev-Sawyer Bulgarian Jews

Had Bulgaria’s history been different 70 years ago, March 10 would be an occasion for the deepest mourning, because that

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Galactic neighbour Large Magellanic Cloud closer than previously thought

March 8, 2013May 27, 2013 VOANews final frontier

An international team of astronomers has discovered that one of our closest galactic neighbors is about 40,000 light years closer

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Bulgaria News 

Tent village grows, US ambassador speaks, and other stories

March 7, 2013March 12, 2013 The Sofia Globe staff

March 7 saw the demands coming from various groups of protesters grow longer and the tent village near Parliament in

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Europe News 

Berlusconi sentenced for publishing wiretap transcript

March 7, 2013May 27, 2013 VOANews

An Italian court has sentenced former Italian prime minister and media mogul Silvio Berlusconi to one year in prison for

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Bulgaria News 

Google puts Bulgaria on Street View

March 7, 2013 The Sofia Globe staff

Bulgaria became the 48th country mapped with Google’s Street View feature, which allows users to observe the surroundings of a

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