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• Broker-turned-monk advises on crisis
TSURNOGORSKI MONASTERY, Bulgaria - Brother Nikanor, a Nasdaq broker turned monk, advises former colleagues to put a jar with soil on their desks to remind them where we are all heading and what matters in life. As western banks fold into each other ...
• Renowned archaeologist dies at temple dig
SOFIA, Bulgaria - Archaeologist Georgi Kitov — an expert on the treasure-rich Thracian culture of antiquity — died of a heart attack while excavating a temple in central Bulgaria considered to be one of his greatest discoveries, his family said ...
• Sex, drugs and guns in the Balkans
The countries of Albania, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Greece, Hungary, Macedonia, Moldova, Romania, Turkey and Yugoslavia have joined to create the Southeast European Cooperative Initiative, or SECI, an American-inspired and assisted operation that ...
• 4. Policing without borders in the Balkans
At its inception, the member states signing on were Albania, Bulgaria, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Croatia, Greece, Hungary, Macedonia, Moldova, Slovenia, Romania and Turkey. Since then, Yugoslavia has joined. There are now 29 permanent liaison officers from ...
• Ultra-thin supermodels get a free lunch
Bus passengers in Bulgaria's capital are being shown soft-core porn films on giant video screens at night. During the day, the plasma screens in the Sofia station show bus times, but the night shift now has the porn films on view. A spokesman for the ...