''Novinar'' () is a

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n national

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published in

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History and profile

''Novinar'' was established in 1993. The paper is part of the company with the same name and is published in

tabloid format A tabloid is a newspaper format characterized by its compact size, smaller than a broadsheet. The term originates from the 19th century, when the London-based pharmaceutical company Burroughs Wellcome & Co. used the term to describe compres ...

. ''Novinar'' is the only Bulgarian newspaper to reprint all 12 Danish Mohammad cartoons. Later in 2006 it published 12 cartoons of Libyan leader

Muammar Gaddafi Muammar Muhammad Abu Minyar al-Gaddafi (20 October 2011) was a Libyan military officer, revolutionary, politician and political theorist who ruled Libya from 1969 until Killing of Muammar Gaddafi, his assassination by Libyan Anti-Gaddafi ...

with the aim to make public the sufferings of the five Bulgarian nurses sentenced to death in Libya on trumped-up charges of deliberately infecting more than 400 Libyan children in Benghazi with HIV. In 2002 the circulation of ''Novinar'' was 29,000 copies. The paper had a circulation of 25,000 copies in 2004.

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1993 establishments in Bulgaria Bulgarian-language newspapers Mass media in Sofia Daily newspapers published in Bulgaria Newspapers established in 1993