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Plevneliev in call on State Security records as Bulgaria remembers victims of communism

February 1, 2014February 10, 2014 The Sofia Globe staff Dossier Commission, Rossen Plevneliev

Bulgarian President Rossen Plevneliev has issued a strong call against attempts to re-bury communist-era secret service records and to manipulate

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Bulgaria 

‘There is a campaign against Dossier Commission disclosures’

December 13, 2013December 15, 2013 The Sofia Globe staff Dossier Commission

The Dossier Commission, which exposes people in Bulgaria who used to work for communist-era secret service State Security, appears to

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Bulgaria 

Bulgarian Socialist Party MP in call to neuter commission disclosing communist State Security agents

December 4, 2013February 11, 2014 The Sofia Globe staff Dossier Commission

The head of the Bulgarian Parliament’s internal affairs committee, Atanas Merdzhanov of the Bulgarian Socialist Party, has said that he

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Bulgaria 

More than half of Foreign Ministry directorate heads are former State Security – report

October 27, 2013October 31, 2013 The Sofia Globe staff Dossier Commission

Twelve of the 21 directorate heads at Bulgaria’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs formerly collaborated with the country’s communist-era secret service

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Bulgaria 

Bulgarian Socialist Party MPs mulling moves to muzzle Dossier Commission – reports

October 20, 2013February 11, 2014 The Sofia Globe staff Dossier Commission

Members of the Bulgarian Socialist Party are discussing moves that would cut back the capacity of the Dossier Commission, the

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Bulgaria 

Bulgaria’s ban on former communist secret agents heading public media is unconstitutional, court says

October 11, 2013 The Sofia Globe staff Dossier Commission

Bulgaria’s Constitutional Court has overturned provisions in a 1998 law barring officers and staff of the communist-era State Security secret

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Bulgaria 

Bulgaria’s Dossier Commission names more credit millionaires with State Security backgrounds

October 10, 2013February 11, 2014 The Sofia Globe staff Dossier Commission

Bulgaria’s Dossier Commission, the body charged by law with identifying people who were involved with the country’s communist-era State Security,

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Bulgaria 

President Plevneliev pledges to veto backtrack on Dossier Commission exposure of State Security agents

October 6, 2013February 11, 2014 The Sofia Globe staff Dossier Commission, Rossen Plevneliev

Bulgarian President Rossen Plevneliev has said that if Parliament approves proposed legislative amendments that would prevent the Dossier Commission disclosing

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Bulgaria 

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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