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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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Editorial: Bulgaria’s image

January 25, 2013January 25, 2013 Clive Leviev-Sawyer

Just a few days after Bulgaria unveiled its new logo and slogan intended to boost the numbers of foreign tourists

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Perspectives 

Letter to the Editor: Immigration

January 25, 2013January 25, 2013 David Clark

Dear Editor, I see that there is quite a furore about the rights of Bulgarian citizens to work in the

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International Holocaust Remembrance Day and Eastern Europe: Memory recent and distant

January 25, 2013May 22, 2013 Clive Leviev-Sawyer

International Holocaust Remembrance Day, on January 27 2013, will find recently-opened Holocaust museums in Central and Eastern Europe, with another

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Bulgaria News Perspectives 

Ahmed Dogan and Bulgaria’s theatre of the absurd

January 25, 2013January 24, 2013 Clive Leviev-Sawyer

Close to a week since the incident at the party congress in which Ahmed Dogan was seen to be attacked

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Bulgaria News Perspectives 

Shock and dismay as Bulgaria’s Dogan attacked – reactions

January 19, 2013 Alex Bivol

The attack on Ahmed Dogan, leader of Bulgaria’s predominantly ethnic Turk Movement for Rights and Freedoms (MRF) party, during a

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Dogan and the MRF: End of an era?

January 19, 2013January 19, 2013 Clive Leviev-Sawyer

Ahmed Dogan, whose planned headline-making announcement on January 19 2013 that he was to step down as leader of the

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Bulgaria slides one spot in new European Catch-Up Index

January 18, 2013May 22, 2013 Marin Lessenski, EuPI

Six years after its accession into the EU, Bulgaria continues to substantially lag behind in the process of catching-up with

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Sex, money, howls of corruption and influence-buying…it must be a Bulgarian business story

January 18, 2013January 31, 2013 Clive Leviev-Sawyer

It is not every day and everywhere that it is possible to claim a direct link between European Union operational

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The terrorist attack on Israelis at Bulgaria’s Bourgas Airport – six months on: Updated

January 18, 2013June 2, 2013 Clive Leviev-Sawyer Bourgas terrorist attack

Amid the frustration, speculation and enduring trauma in these past six months since the July 18 2012 suicide bomb terrorist

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