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Bulgaria Now podcast: Contempt for the electorate? The presidential and UN races

September 7, 2016September 9, 2016 The Sofia Globe staff Bulgaria elections 2016, Bulgaria Now Podcast, Irina Bokova, Lance Nelson, podcast

September 6 marked two months until Bulgaria’s presidential elections, but with the electorate still in the dark about who most

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Bulgaria Now podcast: Sofia Restaurant Week

August 31, 2016September 10, 2016 The Sofia Globe staff Lance Nelson, podcast, Sofia

The first Sofia Restaurant Week, September 11 to 17, is coming ever closer, as 25 of the Bulgarian capital’s finest

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Bulgaria Now podcast: No smoke without fire

August 26, 2016August 30, 2016 The Sofia Globe staff Bulgaria Now Podcast, Lance Nelson, Plovdiv

The fire that gutted historic former tobacco warehouses in Plovdiv is the talk of the town – and the country,

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Podcast: Timely release wagons; and Bulgarians and businesses, and other stories

May 27, 2016May 31, 2016 The Sofia Globe staff

If Bulgaria does not already baffle you, prepare to be bamboozled by the buffoons responsible for what they imagine passes

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Podcast: Use the (migrant) situation creatively

September 11, 2015May 10, 2024 The Sofia Globe staff Bulgaria Now Podcast, Lance Nelson, podcasts, Russia, Syrian refugees

  Bulgaria Now’s Lance Nelson and The Sofia Globe Editor-in-Chief Clive Leviev-Sawyer on the latest developments in Europe’s migrant crisis,

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Podcast: Bulgaria’s mayoral election battle, and other news

September 6, 2015September 11, 2015 The Sofia Globe staff Bulgaria elections 2015, Bulgaria Now Podcast, Lance Nelson, Macedonia, podcasts, Serbia

Like other European countries, Bulgaria is grappling with how to deal with the flow of migrants heading from the Middle

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Podcast: Groovy and liveable – Plovdiv, European Capital of Culture 2019

July 24, 2015May 10, 2024 The Sofia Globe staff Bulgaria Now Podcast, Lance Nelson, Plovdiv, podcasts

On its way to its place as European Capital of Culture 2019, Bulgaria’s city of Plovdiv is quite the happening

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Bulgaria Now podcast: From Uber to fighter jets to the euro zone

July 3, 2015May 10, 2024 The Sofia Globe staff Bulgaria Now Podcast, Lance Nelson, podcasts

Just as global conversation dwelt on speculation about the future of the euro zone because of the deepening crisis in

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News extra from Bulgaria Now and The Sofia Globe: podcast

June 17, 2015July 3, 2015 The Sofia Globe staff podcasts

Lance Nelson of Bulgaria Now and Clive Leviev-Sawyer of The Sofia Globe in conversation about the news du jour from

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