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Ukraine names Bulgarian President Plevneliev ‘Person of the Year’

March 27, 2016March 28, 2016 The Sofia Globe staff Rossen Plevneliev, Ukraine

Ukraine has named Bulgarian President Rossen Plevneliev as its Person of the Year 2015, with Plevneliev saying that his country

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Europe 

Russian court finds Savchenko guilty of murder

March 22, 2016March 22, 2016 The Kyiv Post Russia, Ukraine

It ended as it had begun and continued throughout: in farce and confusion. A court in the small Russian border

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Europe 

Russian court prepares to find Savchenko guilty of murder

March 21, 2016March 21, 2016 The Kyiv Post Russia, Ukraine

A judge in a Russian court in Donetsk, Rostov Oblast, started summing up the case against Nadiya Savchenko on March

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Bulgaria 

Bulgarian Foreign Minister calls for Russia to immediately release Ukrainian pilot Savchenko

March 11, 2016March 12, 2016 The Sofia Globe staff Russia, Ukraine

Bulgarian Foreign Minister Daniel Mitov, in his capacity as head of the committee of ministers of the Council of Europe,

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Europe 

Savchenko flips off Russian court as it delays her verdict

March 10, 2016 The Kyiv Post Russia, Ukraine

Nadiya Savchenko showed that she will be defiant to the end when during a March 9 court hearing she gave

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Bulgaria 

Ukraine to seek extradition of accused in Sofia road rage incident over role in ‘Donetsk republic’

February 29, 2016March 1, 2016 The Sofia Globe staff Ukraine

Ukraine is to submit a request to Bulgaria for the extradition of Bulgarian citizen Georgi Bliznakov, currently in custody facing

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Europe 

Jamala’s ‘1944’ to represent Ukraine at Eurovision

February 23, 2016 The Kyiv Post Ukraine

Late on February 21, Ukraine chose jazz singer Jamala to be the country’s representative for this year’s Eurovision Song Contest.

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Europe 

Ukraine’s government faces fresh problems, at home, abroad

February 17, 2016 VOANews Ukraine

Ukraine’s government faced fresh challenges at home and abroad Wednesday, when a major political party withdrew from the governing coalition

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Europe 

Yatsenyuk survives no-confidence vote in parliament, remains as Ukraine’s prime minister

February 16, 2016 The Kyiv Post Ukraine

Ukraine’s parliament failed to get enough votes to remove Ukrainian Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk and his Cabinet of Ministers on

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