Bulgaria nominates former State Security agent for EU diplomatic posting – report
Bulgaria’s Foreign Minister Kristian Vigenin has nominated Branimir Radev, a former secret agent of the country’s communist-era security services, for
Read more
Dossier Commission
Plevneliev in call on State Security records as Bulgaria remembers victims of communism
Bulgarian President Rossen Plevneliev has issued a strong call against attempts to re-bury communist-era secret service records and to manipulate
Read more
‘There is a campaign against Dossier Commission disclosures’
The Dossier Commission, which exposes people in Bulgaria who used to work for communist-era secret service State Security, appears to
Read more
Bulgarian Socialist Party MP in call to neuter commission disclosing communist State Security agents
The head of the Bulgarian Parliament’s internal affairs committee, Atanas Merdzhanov of the Bulgarian Socialist Party, has said that he
Read more
More than half of Foreign Ministry directorate heads are former State Security – report
Twelve of the 21 directorate heads at Bulgaria’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs formerly collaborated with the country’s communist-era secret service
Read more
Bulgarian Socialist Party MPs mulling moves to muzzle Dossier Commission – reports
Members of the Bulgarian Socialist Party are discussing moves that would cut back the capacity of the Dossier Commission, the
Read more
Bulgaria’s ban on former communist secret agents heading public media is unconstitutional, court says
Bulgaria’s Constitutional Court has overturned provisions in a 1998 law barring officers and staff of the communist-era State Security secret
Read more
Bulgaria’s Dossier Commission names more credit millionaires with State Security backgrounds
Bulgaria’s Dossier Commission, the body charged by law with identifying people who were involved with the country’s communist-era State Security,
Read more
President Plevneliev pledges to veto backtrack on Dossier Commission exposure of State Security agents
Bulgarian President Rossen Plevneliev has said that if Parliament approves proposed legislative amendments that would prevent the Dossier Commission disclosing
Read more