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weekly Editorial, blogs, opinion from TSG team and readers, Bill Drysdale on ‘My Bulgaria’; Analysis – from team, VOA, NENN; full texts of significant statements, speeches and media statements by Government and non-government organisations.

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2014 in Bulgaria: In other news…

December 31, 2014January 5, 2015 The Sofia Globe staff archaeology, Plovdiv

Some other news items from Bulgaria in 2014, that were not necessarily about politics or protests, a pipeline or the

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2014 in CEE: From Sochi to MH17 to South Stream

December 30, 2014May 10, 2024 The Sofia Globe staff Albania, archaeology, Czech Republic, European Parliament, Greece, Hungary, Poland, Romania, Russia, Serbia, Slovakia, South Stream, Turkey, Ukraine

  (Main photo: Anastasia Vlasova/Kyiv Post  

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The modus operandi of Putin’s Russia

December 21, 2014May 10, 2024 Andrew Wilson of the European Council on Foreign Relations Russia

In order to understand Russia’s aims towards Ukraine, we have to know two things. First is to focus not on

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British ambassador: What advice do investors get on Bulgaria?

December 11, 2014December 11, 2014 The Sofia Globe staff

British ambassador in Sofia Jonathan Allen posted an entry on his blog on December 11 about Bulgaria’s image with foreign

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Romania constitutional court declares Iohannis president-elect

November 21, 2014May 10, 2024 Alex Bivol Romania

Romania’s constitutional court validated on November 21 the outcome of the presidential elections in the country, officially naming Sibiu mayor

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Romanian PM Ponta enters presidential run-off as favourite

November 13, 2014November 14, 2014 The Sofia Globe staff Romania

Romanian prime minister Victor Ponta enters the presidential run-off on November 16 as the favourite against his opponent, Sibiu mayor

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What should be on the new Bulgarian cabinet’s to-do list?

November 7, 2014May 10, 2024 Clive Leviev-Sawyer and Alex Bivol

With Bulgaria’s 43rd National Assembly having voted to approve the new cabinet headed by Prime Minister Boiko Borissov, there will

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Bulgaria’s President Rossen Plevneliev, head of an altered state

November 7, 2014May 10, 2024 Clive Leviev-Sawyer Boiko Borissov, Rossen Plevneliev

When Bulgarian head of state President Rossen Plevneliev thanked Boiko Borissov on November 6 for presenting him with a proposed

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Patriotic Front’s price for participation in GERB coalition: freezing the price of electricity

October 23, 2014October 25, 2014 Clive Leviev-Sawyer Bulgarian election 2014, energy

Bulgaria’s nationalist Patriotic Front coalition is setting its price for participation in a GERB coalition government – freezing the price

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