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Cedar Foundation pub quiz on February 27

February 25, 2013May 22, 2013 The Sofia Globe staff

The Cedar Foundation in partnership with the Hilton in the Community Foundation and Cleves is organising another pub quiz to

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Europe News People 

EU ambassador in Kyiv: Tymoshenko, Lutsenko among ‘biggest burdens’ for Ukraine

January 27, 2013January 28, 2013 Maryna Irkliyenko of the Kyiv Post

Jan Tombinski took up the post of European Union ambassador to Ukraine in September as Ukraine’s relations with the 27-nation

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Bulgaria News People 

Bulgarian President hosts first ‘council of presidents’ meeting

January 22, 2013 The Sofia Globe staff

Bulgarian President Rossen Plevneliev hosted the first meeting of the “council of presidents”, an informal meeting with his predecessors, on

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Of archons, dossiers, forgiveness and the future Patriarch: An interview with Bulgarian Orthodox Church Metropolitan Joseph

January 11, 2013January 11, 2013 Dimitar Spasov and Momchil Metodiev

With some weeks to go to the election by a Bulgarian Orthodox Church electoral college of a new Patriarch, Metropolitan

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Europe News People 

Czechoslovakian transports of delight

January 10, 2013January 11, 2013 Brian McCulloch

One of the first major historical works into the formation of Czechoslovakia after World War 1, researched since the fall

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Bulgaria News People 

International Women’s Club Sofia charity bazaar raises more than 280 000 leva

December 5, 2012December 5, 2012 The Sofia Globe staff

  The International Women’s Club 2012 charity bazaar raised more than 280 000 leva, with proceeds yet to be finalised.

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Business People 

Hilton Sofia appoints new general manager

November 29, 2012 The Sofia Globe staff

Hilton Sofia said on November 29 that it has appointed Stephan Reiter as general manager, effective at the end of

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People 

AmCham Bulgaria raises 57 000 leva for charity with Thanksgiving dinner

November 22, 2012May 22, 2013 The Sofia Globe staff

The American Chamber of Commerce (AmCham) in Bulgaria said on November 22 that it has raised 57 000 leva at

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Bulgarian lottery winner Rossen Rusimov, the luckiest man in Pernik

November 21, 2012November 21, 2012 The Sofia Globe staff

Pernik has been a source of many headlines in 2012 for the 5.8 Richter scale earthquake that hit the mining

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