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Bulgaria Exposes 4 Runners for President as Secret Police Agents [Sep 27, 2011] A bankrupt Bulgarian bank head and a former intelligence agent are two of four runners for president, who have been ? quite predictably - exposed as as state security agents and collaborators. Ventsislav Yosifov, former director of First Private Bank, which went bankrupt in 1999, collaborated to the State Security under the nickname Iliev, the special panel, investigating Bulgaria's communist ... [via YahooNews] More >>

Bulgaria's Oldest Cosmetics Producer Offered on Sale for BGN 10 M [Mar 16, 2011] Bulgaria's oldest and largest cosmetics producer "Alen Mak" is on sale for about BGN 8-10 M, according to one of its creditors. The Plovdiv-based Alen Mak ("Scarlet Poppy") factory, in financial trouble for some years, is one of the iconic brands of Bulgaria's communist period. It was the last state-owned cosmetics factory to be privatized ? in 2002 it was sold for USD 5.... [via YahooNews] More >>

Novinite.com's 10th Birthday: 10 Years of Bulgaria Gone Global! [Mar 01, 2011] It was very late one night my freshman year, several years ago. I was in my dorm room in my college in New England doing a bit of research for a presentation on my native country, Bulgaria, that I was about to give in class. The presentation was supposed to feature some basic stuff about Bulgaria's post-communist transition, and I was surfing the Internet trying to find some decent materials in ... [via YahooNews] More >>

Bulgaria diplomats in spying row [Dec 15, 2010] Bulgaria's Prime Minister, Boiko Borisov says 45 diplomats revealed to be former agents of the country's communist secret service should be fired. [via YahooNews] More >>

Bulgaria to 'part ways' with spying diplomats, premier says [Dec 15, 2010] Sofia - Bulgaria will dismiss diplomats who spied for Communist intelligence secret services before the fall of the Iron Curtain, Prime Minister Boyko Borisov promised Wednesday. [via YahooNews] More >>

Bulgaria Targets Major Agencies for Secret Service Collaborators [Aug 22, 2010] A special panel, investigating Bulgaria's communist-era police files, will expose officials working in major agencies, including the State Agency for National Security, Agriculture State Fund and the Commission for Protection of Personal Data, who have been as state security agents and collaborators. [via YahooNews] More >>

Bulgaria's 'Murder Bureau' Targeted Emigre Dissidents [Jul 30, 2010] Bulgaria's Communist-era security agency, the dreaded Committee for State Security, maintained a top secret unit in charge of kidnapping, discrediting and killing of Bulgarian ?gr?around the world long before the notorious assassination of writer Georgi Markov in London in 1978, it can be revealed. [via YahooNews] More >>

Bulgaria District Governors Enter State Security Agents Blacklist [Jul 13, 2010] special panel, investigating Bulgaria's communist-era police files, has exposed twenty eight district governor and deputy district governor, who were in office from 1990 to 2010, as state security agents and collaborators. [via YahooNews] More >>

Bulgaria's Counter-Intelligence Heads Exposed as Communist Security Agents [May 14, 2010] Ivan Drashkov was not available for comment. Photo by BGNES special panel, investigating Bulgaria's communist-era police files, has exposed two former heads of the country's counter-intelligence as state security agents and collaborators. [via YahooNews] More >>

Bulgaria's Counter-Intelligence Heads Exposed as Communist Security Agents [May 14, 2010] special panel, investigating Bulgaria's communist-era police files, has exposed two former heads of the country's counter-intelligence as state security agents and collaborators. [via YahooNews] More >>

Bulgaria Customs Head Exposed as Communist Security Agent [Apr 06, 2010] special panel, investigating Bulgaria 's communist-era police files, has exposed the Head of the Bulgarian Customs Agency, Vanio Tanov, as a State Security agent. [via YahooNews] More >>

Bulgaria Interior Officials Exposed as State Security Agents (Novinite.com) [Mar 10, 2010] ? special panel, investigating Bulgaria's communist-era police files, has exposed more than eighty officials from the interior ministry as state security agents and collaborators. [via YahooNews] More >>

Bulgaria Printed Media Swarming with State Security Agents (Novinite.com) [Feb 17, 2010] ? special panel, investigating Bulgaria's communist-era police files, has exposed another batch of local top journalists and media owners as state security agents and collaborators. [via YahooNews] More >>

Bulgaria Science Academy Swarming with State Security Agents (Novinite.com) [Feb 09, 2010] ? special panel, investigating Bulgaria's communist-era police files, has announced that forty four members of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences (BAS) have been state security agents and collaborators. [via YahooNews] More >>

Bulgaria Watchdog Members Exposed as State Security Agents (Novinite.com) [Jan 28, 2010] ? special panel, investigating Bulgaria's communist-era police files, has announced that five former members of the regulatory body for consumers' protection have been state security agents and collaborators. [via YahooNews] More >>

Bulgaria New EC Nominee Cleared of Murky Past Suspicions (Novinite.com) [Jan 26, 2010] A special panel, investigating Bulgaria's communist-era police files, has confirmed that the country's new European Commission nominee Kristalina Georgieva has not collaborated with the former secret police. [via YahooNews] More >>

Bulgaria Makes Murky Past Probe into New EC Nominee (Novinite.com) [Jan 26, 2010] A special panel, investigating Bulgaria's communist-era police files, has agreed to probe the past of the country's new European Commission nominee Kristalina Georgieva. [via YahooNews] More >>