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Bulgaria Now podcast: Bulgaria’s back to school – more chaos than theory

September 20, 2016October 9, 2016 The Sofia Globe staff Bulgaria Now Podcast, Lance Nelson, podcasts

Hundreds of thousands of young Bulgarians returned to school, or began their first day, in the past week. They’ve entered

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Podcast: Use the (migrant) situation creatively

September 11, 2015May 10, 2024 The Sofia Globe staff Bulgaria Now Podcast, Lance Nelson, podcasts, Russia, Syrian refugees

  Bulgaria Now’s Lance Nelson and The Sofia Globe Editor-in-Chief Clive Leviev-Sawyer on the latest developments in Europe’s migrant crisis,

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Podcast: Bulgaria’s mayoral election battle, and other news

September 6, 2015September 11, 2015 The Sofia Globe staff Bulgaria elections 2015, Bulgaria Now Podcast, Lance Nelson, Macedonia, podcasts, Serbia

Like other European countries, Bulgaria is grappling with how to deal with the flow of migrants heading from the Middle

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Podcast: Groovy and liveable – Plovdiv, European Capital of Culture 2019

July 24, 2015May 10, 2024 The Sofia Globe staff Bulgaria Now Podcast, Lance Nelson, Plovdiv, podcasts

On its way to its place as European Capital of Culture 2019, Bulgaria’s city of Plovdiv is quite the happening

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Bulgaria Now podcast: From Uber to fighter jets to the euro zone

July 3, 2015May 10, 2024 The Sofia Globe staff Bulgaria Now Podcast, Lance Nelson, podcasts

Just as global conversation dwelt on speculation about the future of the euro zone because of the deepening crisis in

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News extra from Bulgaria Now and The Sofia Globe: podcast

June 17, 2015July 3, 2015 The Sofia Globe staff podcasts

Lance Nelson of Bulgaria Now and Clive Leviev-Sawyer of The Sofia Globe in conversation about the news du jour from

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What is a podcast? Q and A

June 16, 2015May 10, 2024 Lance Nelson Bulgaria Now Podcast, Lance Nelson, podcasts

What is a podcast? It’s online radio, time shifted. A file is streamed, or downloaded, to a mobile device or computer

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Coining a new meaning of ‘router’: podcast

June 12, 2015June 19, 2015 The Sofia Globe staff podcasts

The courier coin caper at Sofia Airport – in which customs officials intercepted an attempt at smuggling precious ancient coinage

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