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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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UK ambassador to Bulgaria: A message of renewal and reform

September 3, 2013May 10, 2024 The Sofia Globe staff Peevski protests

British ambassador in Sofia Jonathan Allen spoke to Bulgarian-language media on September 3 to share ideas about the need for

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Russia Watch: Kremlin forgets – a century ago Russian soldiers were top victims of poison gas

September 1, 2013May 10, 2024 James Brooke VOA Moscow Bureau Chief Russia, Syria

Russian politicians and analysts worked overtime this week trying to create a cloud of doubt around the Aug. 21 chemical

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Russia seethes on sidelines as West prepares Syria actions

August 29, 2013May 10, 2024 James Brooke VOA Moscow Bureau Chief Russia

Russia’s navy announced Thursday it is sending two warships into the Eastern Mediterranean near the shores of Syria. At the

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aerial photo by nasa of the island of cyprus
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Cyprus’s Syrian challenge

August 28, 2013February 11, 2014 Independent Balkan News Agency Cyprus

The Syrian crisis presents a challenge for all countries in the wider region and Cyprus does definitely not represent an

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Turkey’s Erdogan may use Egypt turmoil to justify crackdown

August 28, 2013 Dorian Jones of VOANews

Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan has been at the forefront of condemnation of the overthrow of Egyptian President Mohamed

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Russia Watch: Snowden’s Kremlin Connection

August 27, 2013May 10, 2024 James Brooke VOA Moscow Bureau Chief Russia

Friday, June 21, was the hottest day of the year in Hong Kong – a sweltering 34 degrees. But it

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Turkey’s criticism of OIC over Egypt seen as split with Arab allies

August 22, 2013August 22, 2013 Dorian Jones of VOANews Turkey

Turkey’s call for the resignation of the head of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation, or OIC, for not speaking out

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Book Reviews: Herodotus: The Gnome of Sofia, and Judas Goat – The Kennet Narrow Boat Mystery

August 18, 2013May 10, 2024 Clive Leviev-Sawyer

There are few books written by expatriates who have spent some time in Sofia that give a sense of time

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Bulgaria’s ‘Reformist Bloc’ pursues the chimera of right-wing unity

August 18, 2013May 10, 2024 Independent Balkan News Agency

Against the background of many weeks of protests against a Bulgarian Socialist Party government that its thousands of critics see

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