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President Radev on Soviet monuments: It’s up to the Bulgarian foreign ministry to respond to the Russian foreign ministry

November 11, 2017November 12, 2017 Clive Leviev-Sawyer Plovdiv, Roumen Radev, Russia

There is a clear protocol, that the Bulgarian foreign ministry should respond to the Russian foreign ministry, Bulgarian President Roumen

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Bulgaria 

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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Europe 

Nato to beef up in face of ‘assertive’ Russia

November 9, 2017 Deutsche Welle Nato, Russia

Nato plans to update its command structure for the first time since the end of the Cold War to ease

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Perspectives 

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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Bulgaria 

Bulgarian President Radev: Russian claim to have rescued Bulgarian Jews from the Holocaust is ignorance or provocation

November 4, 2017November 6, 2017 Clive Leviev-Sawyer Bulgarian Jews, Roumen Radev, Russia

The claim that it was the Soviet army that rescued Bulgarian Jews from deportation to the Holocaust is either deep

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Bulgaria 

Russian foreign ministry spokesperson: ‘Soviet Army prevented deportation of Jews from Bulgaria’ to Holocaust

November 3, 2017November 5, 2017 Clive Leviev-Sawyer Bulgarian Jews, Russia, Sofia

The defacing of the Soviet Army monument in Sofia with an anti-Semitic slur has taken a new twist with the

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Bulgaria 

Bulgaria’s Defence Ministry tangles with Russian MiG corporation over fighter jet engines

October 27, 2017October 29, 2017 Clive Leviev-Sawyer Russia

Russia’s MiG aircraft corporation said that recent statements by Bulgarian officials that the Air Force’s fighter jet engines could not

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Europe 

Nato challenges Russia on scope of war games

October 27, 2017 VOANews Nato, Russia

Nato has accused Russia of misleading the Western military alliance about the military exercises it held last month with Belarus.

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Bulgaria 

Bulgaria’s Parliament approves report naming Russia as threat to security

October 5, 2017 The Sofia Globe staff Russia

Bulgaria’s National Assembly approved on October 5 the national security report for 2016, with debate on the report becoming heated

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