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Bulgaria’s cabinet ‘to resign at end of July’

July 2, 2014July 5, 2014 The Sofia Globe staff Boiko Borissov, Plamen Oresharski, Sergei Stanishev, Volen Siderov

Clarity on when Bulgaria’s cabinet will resign came a small step closer on July 2 when Plamen Oresharski, occupant of

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Bulgaria to hold early parliamentary elections on date between September 28 and October 12

June 17, 2014June 19, 2014 The Sofia Globe staff Boiko Borissov, Lyutvi Mestan, Rossen Plevneliev, Sergei Stanishev, Volen Siderov

Bulgaria is to hold early national parliamentary elections on a date between September 28 and October 12 2014, President Rossen

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Bulgaria 

Ataka leader Siderov breaks silence to hint at support for no-confidence vote

June 11, 2014 The Sofia Globe staff Plamen Oresharski, Volen Siderov

In his first remarks to reporters in Sofia since his party was vanquished in Bulgaria’s May 25 European Parliament elections,

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Bulgaria 

European elections 2014: Unlike elsewhere in EU, far-right in reverse in Bulgaria

May 26, 2014May 26, 2014 Independent Balkan News Agency European elections 2014, Volen Siderov

What the French prime minister reportedly described as the “political earthquake” of the rise of far-right parties in European Parliament

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Bulgaria’s Interior Ministry confiscates Siderov’s firearm

May 8, 2014 The Sofia Globe staff European elections 2014, Volen Siderov

Bulgaria’s Interior Ministry has confiscated the firearm of far-right ultra-nationalist Ataka leader Volen Siderov, media reports on May 8 2014

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Bulgaria 

Bulgaria’s political parties launch European Parliament election campaigns

April 27, 2014April 29, 2014 Clive Leviev-Sawyer Boiko Borissov, Sergei Stanishev, Volen Siderov

While it may seem a fiction given that Bulgaria’s political parties old and new have been in campaign mode for

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Bulgaria 

Sofia City Prosecutor lays charges against Ataka leader Siderov over Varna flight incident

April 9, 2014 The Sofia Globe staff Volen Siderov

The Sofia City Prosecutor’s office said on April 9 2014 that it had submitted to the Sofia City Council formal

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Bulgaria 

Bulgaria hopes no new round of sanctions against Russia – Oresharski

April 2, 2014 The Sofia Globe staff Boiko Borissov, Plamen Oresharski, Russia, Ukraine, Volen Siderov

Plamen Oresharski, occupant of the prime minister’s chair in the Bulgarian Socialist Party government, has told the National Assembly that

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Bulgaria 

Siderov: ‘The media have found me guilty’

March 12, 2014March 14, 2014 The Sofia Globe staff Volen Siderov

Arriving at the Sofia City Investigative Service offices on March 12 where he was to be formally charged with hooliganism

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