The alarming trend continues with yet another Bulgarian businessman vanishing, three days after the 70-year-old Kiro Kirov was released by his kidnappers.

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In the period just before the outburst of the financial crisis, European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) was updating its new strategy for telecommunications, media and technologies for 30 countries that the bank serves - from the borders of the Czech Republic to Mongolia.

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Bulgarians were becoming seriously concerned about the ongoing economic and financial crisis, according to a survey by the Open Society Institute in Sofia, Bulgarian-language Dnevnik daily said on April 22 2009.

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A large Third Reich banner hung for a second day running from an industrial chimney standing 60m tall in the town of Pazardjik in central Bulgaria, Bulgarian news agency Focus reported.

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After the September 11 2001 terrorist attacks in the United States, Bulgaria ordered the sealing off of parts of streets close to US embassy buildings in Sofia. Now, a court has ordered compensation to be paid, in a ruling that Foreign Minister Ivailo Kalfin calls "outrageous" and that he has asked the Supreme Judicial Council to investigate.

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Bulgarian Prime Minister Sergey Stanishev will pay a working visit to Moscow on April 27 to 28. The visit takes place a day after the international energy summit in Sofia, which was not attended by Russia's Prime Minister Vladimir Putin and precedes the EU-Caspian summit in Prague, organized by the Czech Presidency of the block.

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An Englishman, Frenchman, German, Belgian, Italian and Spaniard walk into a pub... and the landlord says "Is this some kind of joke?"

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Gordon of 'Toppers'will march in Moscow Gay Pride Parade.

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* EU's Barroso says Bulgaria has good case for compensation * Barroso to work with Bulgaria to get other states' backing * Bulgarian PM says 300 mln euro expected

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The President of the European Commission, Jose Manuel Barroso, declared Friday he feared Europe might face a new Russia-Ukraine natural gas crisis within weeks.

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