Sofia raises ‘Capital of Culture’ stakes by promising four new museums by end of 2013
The contest among several Bulgarian cities to be named one of Europe’s capitals of culture in 2019 is a strange
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Perspectives
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.
Transnistria: A bottom-up solution
In June 2010, German Chancellor Angela Merkel launched the Meseberg process. Under the plan, Russia would be included in European
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Sounds of the Ages 2012, Roman Amphitheatre, Plovdiv, Bulgaria
Fish, September 21 Former progressive rock band Marillion singer Fish and the British progressive/alternative band Anathema played with the Plovdiv
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Russia Watch: Making the Kremlin queasy
Making the Kremlin Queasy: Massive American Aid Has Helped Russians Three Times in the Last Century As American officials struggle
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Analysts see double standard in European free speech laws
French embassies, consulates and international schools in 20 Muslim countries were closed on Friday after cartoons depicting the Prophet Muhammad
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Schengen: Of political games and playing patience
Bulgaria’s national parliamentary election in 2013 will be fought on issues of considerably greater moment than whether by then the
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Jump in prices of basic foodstuffs aggravates cost of living in Bulgaria
Bulgarian consumers have been hit by sharp increases in the prices of some basic foodstuffs in the past few months,
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Russian democracy groups face tough times after USAID ouster
Russia has given the United States Agency for International Development until October 1, 2012 to close its operations and leave the country.
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Russia Watch: ‘Russia’s Tibet’ opens to the outside world
Word of the killings of four American diplomats in Libya took 24 hours to reach me last week. That was
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