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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.

Business Perspectives 

M&A corner: Does your business need a valuation?

September 18, 2012 Les Nemethy

Business owners often ask themselves whether they need a business valuation, and, if so, what kind of valuation is required.

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Bulgaria News Perspectives 

Bulgaria’s smoking schizophrenia

September 18, 2012 Clive Leviev-Sawyer

Bulgaria, which a few months ago enacted tough new laws against smoking in public places, has vowed to defend its

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Bulgaria News Perspectives 

Thoroughly red in black and white: A journey through Bulgaria’s communist archives

September 14, 2012September 14, 2012 Clive Leviev-Sawyer

The hours after midnight tread by unheeded in this journey through another era, another dimension in which the language of

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Bulgaria Business News Perspectives 

Fighting words: Bulgaria talks tough on Russian energy projects

September 13, 2012June 2, 2013 Alex Bivol Belene, Boiko Borissov, energy, Russia, Simeon Dyankov, South Stream

Vladimir Putin raised quite a few eyebrows when his last foreign visit as president of Russia in 2008 was to

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Business Perspectives 

Financial crisis offers lessons for future

September 12, 2012 Jim Randle of VOANews

Four years ago, the collapse of Lehman Brothers, a huge financial firm, marked the start of the worst recession in

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Europe News Perspectives 

Spy arrests raise Turkish-Iran tensions

September 12, 2012September 12, 2012 Dorian Jones of VOANews

The recent arrest by Turkey’s security forces of nine people accused of spying for Iran has increased tensions between the

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Europe News Perspectives 

Russia Watch: Vlad in Vlad: Forging Russia’s first hot city on the Pacific Rim

September 11, 2012September 11, 2012 James Brooke VOA Moscow Bureau Chief

The upside about an enlightened dictator is the enlightenment part. Five years ago, Vladimir Putin took a hard look at

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Of memory, monuments, movies, manuscripts, moral high ground and Macedonia

September 10, 2012September 10, 2012 Clive Leviev-Sawyer

Sofia currently is sending a message to Skopje: Let’s make the hysteria history. In recent days, a number of statements

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Europe News Perspectives 

States of denial

September 10, 2012May 22, 2013 Robert Hodgson of The Budapest Times

Backgrounder: Repatriation and release of jailed Azeri murderer threatens to reignite frozen conflict, raises questions of Hungarian realpolitik Hungary’s government

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