In a press release distributed to the media, First Investment Bank (FIB) accuses Bivol of lying. The allegations of First Investment Bank’s involvement in fraud with EU funds in Romania …
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Bulgarian Supreme Judicial Council Asked Bivol to Disclose Source of Scandalous Recordings of Senior Magistrates
In a letter to Bivol’s editorial office, dated November 10, 2015, the Chairman of the SJC’s Ethics Committee, Yassen Todorov, asked us to provide all recordings of conversations between magistrates …
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New Illegal Activities in Vitosha Mountain Show State’s Weakness and Indifference
The coalition of NGOs and civic groups “For the Nature in Bulgaria” and citizens are organizing protests in the capital Sofia and the cities of Plovdiv, Varna, Ruse and Pernik …
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The government of Prime Minister Boyko Borisov decided to dramatically increase the employer’s social security benefits contributions in all sectors of the economy. However, the local cigarette manufacturing monopolies – …
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The controversial and greeted with outrage by locals from the Turkish town of Igneada nuclear power plant (NPP) project will be implemented. Turkey’s intention to build an NPP in a …
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OCCRP’s Investigations Win Awards at 2015 Global Investigative Journalism Conference
The ninth Global Investigative Journalism Conference, GIJC 2015, held in the Norwegian ski resort of Lillehammer, hosted over 850 journalists from 120 countries – a record for such an event. …
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Dirty Campaign of Controlled Bulgarian Media against Bivol Enters New Phase
A camera crew of Bulgarian TV Channel 3 has popped-up this morning at the address in the Paris suburb where Bivol’s Editor-in-Chief Atanas Tchobanov lives. The intruders introduced themselves to …
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I am constantly reading how representatives or fans of parties with hardline retiree voters or parties relying on less literate citizens are hysterically rejecting online voting because it would not …
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Prime Minister Allowed Russian Aircraft in Bulgarian Airspace and Opened Country’s Borders for Refugees
The parallel with some other times when Bulgaria was not allowing Russian aircraft to fly in its airspace and refused to accept refugees on its territory stands by itself. In …



