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Bozhidar Dimitrov to retire as head of Bulgaria’s National History Museum

September 29, 2017September 30, 2017 Clive Leviev-Sawyer Dossier Commission

Bozhidar Dimitrov has resigned as head of Bulgaria’s National History Museum, to go on retirement, the Ministry of Culture said

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Borissov’s GERB nominates MP Anton Todorov to head Dossier Commission

September 28, 2017September 30, 2017 Clive Leviev-Sawyer Dossier Commission

Bulgarian Prime Minister Boiko Borissov’s centre-right GERB party is backing one of its MPs, Anton Todorov, to become the next

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Dossier Commission names six Bulgarian Jewish community leaders as former State Security people

September 12, 2017 The Sofia Globe staff Bulgarian Jews, Dossier Commission

Bulgaria’s Dossier Commission, the body charged by law to check people in public life for links to the country’s communist-era

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Almost all political parties in Bulgaria’s March elections have candidates who worked for communist-era secret services

March 9, 2017March 9, 2017 Clive Leviev-Sawyer Bulgaria elections 2017, Dossier Commission

An announcement by Bulgaria’s Dossier Commission on March 9 showed that almost all parties and coalitions in the country’s early

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Bulgaria’s Dossier Commission names former State Security people sent to Nato, other international bodies

March 4, 2017March 9, 2017 The Sofia Globe staff Dossier Commission, Nato

Bulgaria’s Dossier Commission, the body empowered by law to announce members of the communist-era secret services who went on to

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Bulgarian President Radev names former State Security staffer as security and defence adviser

March 1, 2017March 9, 2017 The Sofia Globe staff Dossier Commission, Roumen Radev

Bulgarian President Roumen Radev has appointed Ilian Alipiev, formerly a member of the country’s communist-era secret service State Security’s counterintelligence

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Bulgaria marks day of commemorating victims of communism

February 1, 2017March 9, 2017 The Sofia Globe staff Dossier Commission, Roumen Radev

Members of Boiko Borissov’s GERB party and of the centre-right Reformist Bloc coalition held separate wreath-laying ceremonies in central Sofia

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Bulgaria 

Bulgaria lengthens list of people subject to checks for links to communist-era State Security

January 26, 2017March 9, 2017 The Sofia Globe staff Dossier Commission

Bulgaria’s National Assembly has approved the second and final reading of amendments to the law on the Dossier Commission, to

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Bulgaria 

Bulgaria’s Dossier Commission has announced more than 12 000 communist secret service agents in 10 years

January 12, 2017March 9, 2017 Clive Leviev-Sawyer Dossier Commission, Rossen Plevneliev, Roumen Radev

Bulgaria’s Dossier Commission, the body charged by law with announcing the identities of those in public life who worked for

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