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“Bulgarian socialists appear to be supportive of Russia’s intervention in Crimea. Alexander Simov, a journalist from the Socialist daily Duma who was sent to Crimea as an observer, said yesterday he believed that the referendum vote was legitimate.

“I am going to watch the whole process. To see … that it is a legal referendum,” he said. “So I think it is going to be very legal,” Simov said, as quoted by the Voice of America. Simov’s name appears on the list of the BSP candidates for the European elections.”

Euractiv

17th March, 2014

The Bulgarian foreign minister, Kristian Vigenin, has been instructed by his ruling Socialist party “not to haste with harsh measures” against Russia following the Crimea referendum, as EU ministers gather in Brussels in an attempt to impose sanctions on Moscow.

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