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The Sofia Echo's dossier on dossiers

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Bulgaria's communist-era security service dossiers continue to surface in public debate, perhaps especially because of repeated allegations that illicit ties between some law enforcement and organised crime figures were spawned in the communist past.

In its latest issue, published on Friday April 11, The Sofia Echo examines the latest developments around the Interior Ministry controversy, the communist-era dossiers and the newest official figures about how many citizens of the then East Germany died while trying to use Bulgaria as a transit point to the West.

Elsewhere, the newspaper outlines the ramifications of the Nato summit in Bucharest and reports on a media trip to Serbia to look at Bulgarian businesses in the wake of the declaration of independence by Kosovo.

In our features section, Libby Gomersall relates what happens when the children start speaking Bulgarish while film reviewer Pavel Ivanov stakes out The Bank Job.

Details of the Sofia Nomads' next match are on our sports pages, as well as a report on the tussle between expatriate Brazilian footballers and the Bulgarian police.

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