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Bulgaria’s supreme court rejects attempt to block Peevski from European Parliament election

May 8, 2019May 10, 2019 The Sofia Globe staff Bulgaria European elections 2019, Delyan Peevski, Peevski protests

Bulgaria’s Supreme Administrative Court has rejected an appeal against the stance of the Central Election Commission (CEC) that Delyan Peevski

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Bulgaria 

Bulgaria’s Movement for Rights and Freedoms puts Peevski on European Parliament candidate list

April 22, 2019April 24, 2019 Independent Balkan News Agency Delyan Peevski, Peevski protests

The Movement for Rights and Freedoms submitted its candidate list for the May 2019 European Parliament elections on April 22,

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Bulgaria 

Bulgarian election commission orders halt to distribution of book attacking Ivanov’s ‘Yes Bulgaria’ and New Republic

March 16, 2017 Clive Leviev-Sawyer Bulgaria elections 2017, Delyan Peevski, Peevski protests

The Central Election Commission has ordered an end to the distribution of a book distributed free with a newspaper, directed

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Bulgaria 

Members of Bulgaria’s anti-government protest group form ‘June 14’ political party

March 9, 2016March 11, 2016 The Sofia Globe staff Peevski protests

A group of Bulgarians who were among those who founded the Protest Network during the 2013/14 large-scale public protests demanding

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Bulgaria 

Bulgaria’s Prosecutor-General defends probe into Protest Network activists

February 27, 2015March 4, 2015 The Sofia Globe staff Boiko Borissov, Media, Peevski protests

Bulgaria’s Prosecutor-General Sotir Tsatsarov has sought to defend the investigation, including a tax probe, into four activists from the Protest

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Bulgaria 

Bulgarian tax authorities probe four ‘Protest Network’ activists

February 25, 2015February 27, 2015 The Sofia Globe staff CCB affair, Peevski protests

At the request of the Sofia City Prosecutor’s office, Bulgaria’s National Revenue Agency has begun a formal investigation into four

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Bulgaria 

Bulgaria’s former caretaker PM: ‘No doubt’ there was surveillance of anti-government protesters

February 11, 2015February 12, 2015 The Sofia Globe staff Peevski protests

Georgi Bliznashki, who was Bulgaria’s caretaker prime minister in 2014 after the resignation of the “Oresharski” cabinet, said on February

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Bulgaria 

Bulgarian PM: Findings of probe into eavesdropping on protesters ‘disturbing’

February 9, 2015February 10, 2015 The Sofia Globe staff Peevski protests

The findings of an investigation ordered after allegations that anti-government protesters were the subject of illegal surveillance in 2013 and

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Bulgaria 

Probe into illegal eavesdropping allegations to be completed soon – Interior Minister

February 6, 2015 Independent Balkan News Agency Peevski protests

An internal investigation into allegations that Bulgaria’s 2013/14 administration illegally eavesdropped on anti-government protesters would be completed soon, Interior Minister

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