Gypsies Focus of Controversy in Bulgaria
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The seven forest rangers were patrolling their region south of Sofia when they came across a group of Gypsies they suspected of illegal logging.
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There is a row in  Romania between Romanian journalists and "interfering" Western owners of their newspapers.
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Councils should provide caravan sites for Gypsies to stop illegal encampments and clashes with locals, MPs say.
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Politics: 4 January 2005, Tuesday. The National Association of the Bulgarian transporting companies will organize protests in some of Bulgaria's biggest cities including Sofia, Plovdiv and Pleven.
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Bulgaria in Brief: 5 October 2004, Tuesday. A scandalous billboard showing uncensored scenes with popular folk singer were unfixed from downtown Sofia after numerous complaints from local residents.
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Prime Minister Ferenc Gyurcsany's blunt admission he lied to win an election has sparked outrage, riots and a race to claim a website over his comments.
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BUDAPEST, Jan. 24 (IPS) - The possibility of an official trip by charismatic  Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico to Venezuela, China and Libya  is causing uproar in the media and opposition, who insist  Slovakia should stick to its Euro-Atlantic orientation and rid  itself of socialist nostalgia.
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Thousands of people demonstrated across  Bulgaria on Friday to call for the release of five Bulgarian  nurses and a Palestinian doctor condemned to death for  infecting hundreds of Libyan children with HIV.
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TIRANA, Jul 4 (IPS) - People across the Balkans have much in common,  forget the conflicts of the recent or distant past, and the  efforts of politicians to convince them how "different"  or "distinctive" they are.
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Bulgaria's Foreign Minister Solomon Passy, who holds the rotating chair of the Organisation for Security and Co-operation in Europe, said Ukraine would be a central topic for an OSCE foreign ministerial meeting ...
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Hundreds of taxi drivers block roads in Bulgaria's capital, Sofia, in protest at the killing of a colleague.
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Strategic litigation actions undertaken by the ERRC and its local partners prompt Bulgarian courts to sanction discriminators under recently adopted Bulgarian anti-discrimination act.
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Zachranari, photo: www.czech-tv.cz I discussed the issue with Karel Oliva of the Institute for the Czech Language, who says in the past Czechs were exposed to Slovak all the time.
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BUDAPEST, Nov 29 (IPS) - In an embarrassing development for Hungary, Sweden  has for the past weeks received a growing number of asylum  applications from mostly ethnic Roma citizens who complain of  discrimination in the fellow European Union (EU) member state.
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Politics: 30 December 2004, Thursday. Most of the Bulgarian tourists who are on a holiday trip to various parts of South East Asia want to return preliminarily, but find no cooperation from Bulgarian consular ...
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BBC's Gabriel Partos looks at the initiative by central and south-east European countries to improve the living conditions of the Roma people.
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Bulgaria&#39;s wilderness areas, among the largest in Europe, are threatened by property investors who use legal loopholes to contest the territories&#39; protected status to build holiday flats.