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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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Transnistria: A bottom-up solution

September 27, 2012June 2, 2013 Nicu Popescu and Leonid Litra, ECFR Moldova

In June 2010, German Chancellor Angela Merkel launched the Meseberg process. Under the plan, Russia would be included in European

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Bulgaria Leisure Perspectives 

Sounds of the Ages 2012, Roman Amphitheatre, Plovdiv, Bulgaria

September 26, 2012September 26, 2012 Hristina Dimitrova

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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News Perspectives World 

Russia Watch: Making the Kremlin queasy

September 26, 2012September 25, 2012 James Brooke VOA Moscow Bureau Chief

Making the Kremlin Queasy: Massive American Aid Has Helped Russians Three Times in the Last Century As American officials struggle

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Europe News Perspectives 

Analysts see double standard in European free speech laws

September 25, 2012May 22, 2013 Selah Hennessy VOANews

French embassies, consulates and international schools in 20 Muslim countries were closed on Friday after cartoons depicting the Prophet Muhammad

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Bulgaria News Perspectives 

Schengen: Of political games and playing patience

September 21, 2012June 2, 2013 Clive Leviev-Sawyer Nikolai Mladenov, Romania, Schengen

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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Bulgaria Business News Perspectives 

Jump in prices of basic foodstuffs aggravates cost of living in Bulgaria

September 20, 2012 Clive Leviev-Sawyer

Bulgarian consumers have been hit by sharp increases in the prices of some basic foodstuffs in the past few months,

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News Perspectives World 

Russian democracy groups face tough times after USAID ouster

September 20, 2012September 20, 2012 Jessica Golloher of VOANews

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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Leisure News Perspectives World 

Russia Watch: ‘Russia’s Tibet’ opens to the outside world

September 18, 2012 James Brooke VOA Moscow Bureau Chief

Word of the killings of four American diplomats in Libya took 24 hours to reach me last week. That was

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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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