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New Bulgarian – Macedonian meeting planned, Sofia says

July 25, 2013July 25, 2013 Independent Balkan News Agency Kristian Vigenin, Macedonia

A meeting between the prime ministers of Bulgaria and Macedonia will be held within days, according to Bulgarian Foreign Minister

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Bulgaria 

Bulgarian socialist government responds to criticism from foreign ambassadors

July 11, 2013July 11, 2013 Independent Balkan News Agency Kristian Vigenin

Bulgaria’s beleaguered socialist government, elected in May but under relentless pressure from many thousands who turn out on the streets

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Bulgaria World 

Bulgaria’s position on Bourgas investigation has not changed, Foreign Minister tells Israeli ambassador

June 10, 2013June 12, 2013 The Sofia Globe staff Bourgas terrorist attack, Kristian Vigenin

Foreign Minister Kristian Vigenin has told the Israeli ambassador in Sofia, Shaul Kamisa-Raz, that Bulgaria’s position on the results of

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Bulgaria 

UK ambassador to meet Bulgarian Foreign Minister on Hezbollah

June 9, 2013June 14, 2013 Clive Leviev-Sawyer Bourgas terrorist attack, Kristian Vigenin

The UK ambassador in Sofia, Jonathan Allen, is to meet Foreign Minister Kristian Vigenin to discuss Bulgaria’s position on the

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Bulgaria 

Bulgaria’s Oresharski meets EU, Nato ambassadors

June 4, 2013June 5, 2013 The Sofia Globe staff Belene, Kristian Vigenin, Plamen Oresharski

Plamen Oresharski, appointed prime minister of Bulgaria as of May 29 in the socialist government, held his first official meeting

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Bulgaria News 

Bulgaria’s new cabinet ministers spell out plans

June 3, 2013 Clive Leviev-Sawyer Kristian Vigenin, Plamen Oresharski, Tsvetlin Yovchev

A more powerful State Agency for National Security, recruitment of civilians to act as “civil guards” to assist police, a

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Bulgaria News 

Bulgarian President holds firm against appointing ambassadors who were communist secret service agents

May 31, 2013June 2, 2013 Independent Balkan News Agency Kristian Vigenin, Rossen Plevneliev

In one of the first most significant differences between Bulgaria’s socialist-led government and the country’s head of state, President Rossen

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Bulgaria News 

Bulgaria’s new Foreign Minister on the Western Balkans, former State Security agents

May 31, 2013June 2, 2013 Independent Balkan News Agency Dossier Commission, Kristian Vigenin

Bulgaria’s new Foreign Minister Kristian Vigenin, a member of the Bulgarian Socialist Party cabinet that came to power in Sofia

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Bulgaria News 

Bulgarian Parliament votes Oresharski cabinet into power

May 29, 2013June 2, 2013 The Sofia Globe staff Boiko Borissov, Kristian Vigenin, Plamen Oresharski, Sergei Stanishev, Tsvetan Tsvetanov, Tsvetlin Yovchev

With the votes of the Bulgarian Socialist Party (BSP) and the Movement for Rights and Freedoms (MRF), Bulgaria’s 42nd National

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