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Bulgarian Interior Ministry: ‘Lukov March’ planned for February 2018 should be banned

November 24, 2017November 26, 2017 Clive Leviev-Sawyer Bulgaria EU presidency, Bulgarian Jews

The Sofia regional directorate of the Interior Ministry and Bulgaria’s National Protection Service have told the city municipality that they

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Bulgarian Foreign Ministry condemns daubing of Nazi, anti-Semitic slogans on Soviet monument in Plovdiv

November 11, 2017November 13, 2017 Clive Leviev-Sawyer Bulgarian Jews, Plovdiv, Russia

Bulgaria’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs has strongly condemned the act of vandalism against the Alyosha monument in Plovdiv that saw

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Alyosha Soviet soldier monument in Bulgaria’s Plovdiv daubed with anti-Semitic, anti-Russian graffiti

November 10, 2017November 11, 2017 Clive Leviev-Sawyer Bulgarian Jews, Plovdiv

The Alyosha monument in Bulgaria’s second city Plovdiv has been daubed with numerous anti-Semitic, anti-Russian and anti-communist messages. The spraying

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Bulgaria 

Bulgaria among 11 EU countries lacking official data on anti-Semitic incidents – European rights agency

November 9, 2017November 9, 2017 Clive Leviev-Sawyer Bulgarian Jews

Bulgaria was among 11 European Union countries missing official data on anti-Semitic incidents for some years, according to a new

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Bulgaria 

Russian foreign ministry spokesperson hits back in row over ‘Soviet rescue of Bulgarian Jews’

November 9, 2017November 10, 2017 Clive Leviev-Sawyer Bulgarian Jews

A week after her claim that the Soviet army saved the Bulgarian Jews from the Holocaust in the Second World

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Bulgaria 

Row in Bulgarian Parliament as controversy continues over claims Soviets rescued Bulgarian Jews

November 8, 2017November 9, 2017 The Sofia Globe staff Bulgarian Jews

The controversy sparked by a Russian foreign ministry spokesperson claiming that the Red Army rescued the Bulgarian Jews from the

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Bulgaria 

Bulgarian national co-ordinator for combating anti-Semitism holds talks with Israeli ambassador

November 8, 2017November 9, 2017 The Sofia Globe staff Bulgarian Jews

Bulgarian society has proved that it has always opposed and will continue to resist any manifestation of hatred, Deputy Foreign

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Bulgaria 

American Jewish Committee rejects Russian revisionism on rescue of Bulgarian Jews from Holocaust

November 7, 2017November 8, 2017 Clive Leviev-Sawyer Bulgarian Jews

The claim that the wartime rescue of nearly 50 000 Bulgarian Jews from the Holocaust was the result of Soviet,

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Russian embassy in Sofia attempts new spin in row on claims Soviets rescued Bulgarian Jews from Holocaust

November 5, 2017November 7, 2017 Clive Leviev-Sawyer Bulgarian Jews, Russia

Amid the row over Moscow’s claim that it was the Red Army that rescued the Bulgarian Jews from the Holocaust,

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