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Bulgaria’s governing axis seeks backtrack on disclosure of former communist-era secret service agents in intelligence services

October 3, 2013February 11, 2014 The Sofia Globe staff Boiko Borissov, Dossier Commission

The Bulgarian Socialist Party, Movement for Rights and Freedoms and Volen Siderov’s ultra-nationalists Ataka are jointly pushing a backtrack on

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Bulgarian Socialist Party ‘would get most votes’ were elections held now, poll says

October 2, 2013October 2, 2013 The Sofia Globe staff Boiko Borissov, Peevski protests, Sergei Stanishev, Volen Siderov

The Bulgarian Socialist Party (BSP) would get the largest share of votes in a narrow lead over Boiko Borissov’s centre-right

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Bulgarian Parliament rejects motion of no confidence in government

October 2, 2013October 3, 2013 The Sofia Globe staff Boiko Borissov, Volen Siderov

Bulgaria’s National Assembly, in a vote on October 2 2013, rejected opposition centre-right GERB’s motion of no confidence in the

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Facebook hoaxes and Facebook hacking: Bulgaria’s online wars

September 30, 2013September 30, 2013 The Sofia Globe staff Boiko Borissov, Peevski protests

The Facebook page of Boiko Borissov, leader of Bulgaria’s centre-right former ruling party, was hacked on September 30, the second

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Strike three on day three of Bulgaria’s parliamentary ‘no confidence’ drama

September 27, 2013February 11, 2014 The Sofia Globe staff Boiko Borissov

Three successive attempts failed to achieve a quorum for the September 27 sitting of Bulgaria’s Parliament, which was scheduled to

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Will Boiko’s boycott tactics spoil his own future?

September 27, 2013February 11, 2014 Independent Balkan News Agency Boiko Borissov

ince the Bulgarian Socialist Party government came to power in May 2013, opposition leader and former prime minister Boiko Borissov

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Another day of debacle and disputes in Bulgaria’s no-confidence ‘debate’

September 26, 2013February 11, 2014 The Sofia Globe staff Boiko Borissov, Plamen Oresharski

The second attempt at holding the debate in Parliament on opposition party GERB’s motion of no confidence in the Bulgarian

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Bulgarian Parliament sitting to debate no-confidence motion scuttled by lack of quorum

September 25, 2013February 11, 2014 The Sofia Globe staff Boiko Borissov, Peevski protests

Bulgaria’s unicameral Parliament, the National Assembly, was scheduled to begin debate on September 25 on the first motion of no

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Bulgarian autumn and the ‘new’ political forces

September 23, 2013September 23, 2013 Independent Balkan News Agency Boiko Borissov

Autumn came to Bulgaria on the night of September 22 2013, at the close of a weekend that had seen

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