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Bulgaria’s governing axis seeks backtrack on disclosure of former communist-era secret service agents in intelligence services

October 3, 2013February 11, 2014 The Sofia Globe staff Boiko Borissov, Dossier Commission

The Bulgarian Socialist Party, Movement for Rights and Freedoms and Volen Siderov’s ultra-nationalists Ataka are jointly pushing a backtrack on

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Bulgaria 

Bulgarian Socialist Party government appointing former State Security collaborator as consul-general in Bitola

September 25, 2013February 11, 2014 The Sofia Globe staff Dossier Commission

Teodor Russinov, removed from his post as Bulgaria’s ambassador to Albania in February 2012 by the then-government headed by Boiko

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Bulgaria 

Bulgarian historians protest state archives reshuffle

September 2, 2013 The Sofia Globe staff Dossier Commission

Historians and researchers have protested the decision by the Bulgarian Cabinet to fire state archives agency director Martin Ivanov and

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Bulgaria 

Bulgarian Socialist Party government continues purges by replacing head of state archives agency

August 28, 2013September 2, 2013 Independent Balkan News Agency Dossier Commission

Martin Ivanov, who in the past two years initiated innovations at the state archives agency and was keen on the

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Bulgaria News 

Bulgaria’s new Foreign Minister on the Western Balkans, former State Security agents

May 31, 2013June 2, 2013 Independent Balkan News Agency Dossier Commission, Kristian Vigenin

Bulgaria’s new Foreign Minister Kristian Vigenin, a member of the Bulgarian Socialist Party cabinet that came to power in Sofia

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Bulgaria News 

Bulgaria’s Dossier Commission names another former State Security agent in the media

May 30, 2013May 30, 2013 The Sofia Globe staff Dossier Commission

Bulgaria’s Dossier Commission, the statutory body that checks and discloses the names of people in certain categories who formerly worked

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Bulgaria News 

Twelve communist-era State Security agents among Bulgaria’s MPs

May 19, 2013May 22, 2013 The Sofia Globe staff Dossier Commission

Twelve of the 240 members of Bulgaria’s 42nd National Assembly, elected on May 12, worked for the country’s communist-era secret

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Bulgaria News 

Bulgaria’s Dossier Commission announces another former State Security agent in the media

May 15, 2013May 22, 2013 The Sofia Globe staff Dossier Commission, Media

Bulgaria’s Dossier Commission, the body charged by statute with identifying people in certain categories of public life as having worked

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Bulgaria News 

141 communist-era State Security agents among Bulgaria’s candidate MPs

April 26, 2013May 27, 2013 The Sofia Globe staff Dossier Commission

Bulgaria’s Dossier Commission has identified 141 agents and employees of the communist-era State Security secret service among the candidate members

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