Sofia, Moscow Discuss Looser Visa Regime
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Politics: 18 September 2004, Saturday. While discussing ideas for providing humanitarian help to crisis-vulnerable regions in the Caucasus through the OSCE, the first diplomats of Bulgaria and Russia talked the ...
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SOFIA, Bulgaria, Dec. 18 Britain, the Netherlands and Spain plan restrictions on immigrant workers from Bulgaria and Romania once the two states join the European Union Jan.Comment
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Politics: 5 October 2004, Tuesday. Bulgaria's Prime Minister Simeon Saxe-Coburg and Bulgaria's Deputy Prime Minister and Economy Minister Lidia Shuleva are leaving for a four-day official visit to Paris ...
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Russia wants more concrete reasons from Washington as to why it plans to build an anti-missile system in Poland and the Czech Republic, Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Tuesday.
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PORTOROZ, Slovenia -- NATO defense ministers faced a tense meeting with their Russian counterpart Friday after the Western alliance angered Moscow by agreeing to deepen cooperation with Georgia.Comment
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Bulgaria, Ukraine to ease visa requirements BTA web site 30 Sep 04 Sofia, 30 September: Bulgaria and Ukraine will considerably ease the visa issuing procedure for many categories of people, the government press ...
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BERLIN - The United States is prepared to offer concessions to Russia over the Conventional Armed Forces in Europe Treaty to try to persuade Moscow to soften its positions on Kosovo and Iran, diplomats said yesterday.
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Russia wants more concrete reasons from  Washington as to why it plans to build an anti-missile system  in Poland and the Czech Republic, Foreign Minister Sergei  Lavrov said on Tuesday.
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Russia and NATO states on Wednesday struggled to find common ground to resolve a row over a European arms pact, snagged over Moscow's refusal to close bases in the former Soviet republics of Georgia and Moldova.
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President Robert Kocharian and his visiting Bulgarian counterpart, Georgi Parvanov, pledged on Tuesday to step up cooperation between their nations 'in all spheres,' singling out bilateral trade that has grown ...
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The German foreign ministry is set to issue new guidelines tightening visa regulations in a bid to crack down on people abusing the terms of their visits, a top ministry official has confirmed.
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"I am calling for calmness and a little bit more patience, Prime Minister Sergei Stanishev said. "We are taking and will be taking all steps to bring this whole case to an end as soon as possible and see our compatriots very soon on Bulgarian soil."  By Anna MudevaSOFIA  - Bulgaria and the European Union called on Libya on Wednesday to transfer six foreign medics to Sofia, after Tripoli lifted their death sentences for infecting hundreds of children with the HIV virus.The five Bulgarian nurses and the Palestinian doctor, who have spent more than eight years in jail, could be pardoned by the Balkan country's president if they are sent to Sofia under a 1984 prisoner exchange agreement with Libya.Following hectic diplomatic talks and payment of hundreds of millions of dollars to the families of 460 HIV victims, Tripoli commuted the death sentences against the six to life imprisonment late on Tuesday, paving the way for their release. Read more
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Politics: 4 January 2005, Tuesday. The Bulgarian Kalotina Checkpoint at the Serbian border is in a completely different condition than it used to be, said Tuesday the Sofia District Governor Olimpi Katev.
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NATO countries have agreed to offer   ex-Soviet Georgia talks on closer ties with the Western   alliance, NATO sources said on Monday, a move likely to anger   Russia.
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Britain considers restrictions for Bulgarian and Romanian workers as the nations prepare to join the EU.
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US President George W. Bush, on the last leg of his European tour, is set for talks Monday with Bulgarian leaders about the proposed expansion of the US anti-missile defence shield in Europe.
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RIA Novosti s writer Olga Lipich. A high-profile Serbian delegation headed by Patriarch Pavel and President of the country Boris Tadic is coming to Moscow on Sunday for a three-day visit.