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Germany's Dinah Pfizenmaier serves to Bulgaria's Victoria Azarenka during their Women's Singles 2nd Round tennis match of the French Open tennis tournament at the Roland Garros stadium, on May 30, 2012 in Paris.

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  • Bulgaria's Kutrovsky banned 2 years for doping

    -- Bulgarian tennis player Dimitar Kutrovsky has been banned for two years after testing positive for a banned stimulant.The International Tennis Federations says the 24-year-old Kutrovsky tested positive for methylhexaneamine in February at the SAP Open in   Read more »

  • Bulgarian gov't officials forced to return bonuses

    have paid themselves five-figure bonuses. Though technically legal, the revelation of the bonuses stirred public outrage among many Bulgarians struggling to live with an average salary of 385 ($515) a month.Borisov said that in times of crisis government officials   Read more »

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About Bulgaria

Bulgaria (Bulgarian: България, IPA: [bɤlˈgarijə]), officially the Republic of Bulgaria (Bulgarian: Република България, IPA: [rɛˈpubliˌkə bɤlˈgarijə]), is a country in Southeastern Europe, and a member state of the European Union. It borders the Black Sea to the east, Greece and Turkey to the south, Serbia and the Republic of Macedonia to the west, and Romania to the north, mostly along the Danube. Bulgaria also shares a maritime border with Turkey, Romania, Ukraine, Russia, and Georgia. The capital of Bulgaria is Sofia.

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