Dimitar Dimitrov, spokesperson of the Central Electoral Commission (CEC), believes the voting machines introduced this year at all polling stations with over 300 voters are completely useless. “When are you…

Vassil Bozhkov, “Bulgaria’s richest and most dangerous man” in the words of chief prosecutor Ivan Geshev, owns a staggeringly expensive property in the heart of Paris, in a stately building…

Lyubomir Konstantinov Penchev is the owner of a company in Luxembourg which is in possession of assets worth BGN 1.2 million. The joint-stock company with the name of Promobelle S.A.…

Seven Bulgarian construction companies, which brought their heavy equipment to the TurkStream 2 gas pipeline construction sites, are being investigated by the Sofia City Prosecutor’s Office and have been ordered…

Russian citizen Evgeny Chupov, about whom Bivol wrote at the end of December 2020, has finally been granted political asylum in Bulgaria. This emerged on January 5, 2021, when the…

Ten-year anniversary Bivol turned ten in 2020. Over these ten years our media withstood very serious trials and trepidations because of its independent policy and courageous investigations. They reveal mainly…

The European Commission (EC) has called for inspections and investigations of a number of projects of the Bulgarian Ministry of Economy under the European Union’s (EU) Operational Program “Innovations and…

Evgeny Sergeevich Chupov, a 41-year-old English teacher and civil activist from Russia, has been trying to obtain political asylum in Bulgaria for almost a year and a half. Chupov is…

Information obtained by the Civil Association “Bulgaria United with One Goal” (BOETS, meaning fighter in Bulgria) and by the site for investigative journalism “Bivol” about numerous violations of labor standards…