For several months now, Bivol’s reporter Dimitar Stoyanov is in Leipzig as he is enrolled in the Journalist-in-Residence Program of the European Center for Press and Media Freedom (ECPMF) for …
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Interview of Assen Yordanov with the TV talk show “Slavi’s Show” from January, 10, 2018. Transcript with references to the investigations mentioned in the broadcast: Assen Yordanov: The issue is …
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It is our tradition to review for readers what Bivol has achieved in the course of the year, and (again traditionally) it is not insignificant. In 2017, we marked seven …
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“Borisov 3” Cabinet tramples over national and European legislation
Bulgarian Mafia Receives Protected Area as Christmas Gift
In the end, Boyko Borisov, posing as Prime Minister of Bulgaria, revealed his true self by blatantly breaking the law once again, this time in his capacity of leading politician. …
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New Pirin Management Plan only with an Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA)
Why We Oppose Handing Pirin Park to Mafia Mob
The Bulgarian “For the Nature” Coalition announced that the European Commission had stressed in a letter to one of its members, the Association of Parks in Bulgaria that Bulgaria, as …
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Bulgarian President Attends Irina Bokova’s Event amidst “Azerbaijani Laundromat” Scandal
Bulgarian President Rumen Radev is on a working visit to the United States to take part in the annual forum “Honoring the Heroes of the World Campaign Against Extremism and …
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On Friday, August 25, Emmanuel Macron, President of the French Republic, is on an official visit to Bulgaria. This is an opportunity for him, the committed European, to condemn the …
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Interview with Assen Yordanov
Wiener Zeitung: Land in Oligarch’s Hand
Extensive interview with Assen Yordanov, founder and Director of Bivol, with the prestigious Austrian newspaper Wiener Zeitung on: – Mafia reality in Bulgaria – Bivol’s mission – Cost of defending …
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“We are in the same boat as Romania, but they have rowers”, Lozan Panov, a senior Bulgarian magistrate, is lucid but pessimistic about his country’s ability to contain the corruption …





