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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…

The Vienna-based company with Bulgarian participation KVZ Digital Ltd. regularly blocks YouTube videos on grounds of copyright infringement. However, investigative reporting outlets, are among the blocked as well. They don’t…

2016 began with a murder. One of the protagonists in our publications was killed execution style in the first days of January. In a series of articles, Bivol revealed how…

Bulgaria detained Russian dissident Nikolai Koblyakov, citing an Interpol Red Notice, issued on April 1, 2014. As one can see, the notice was of a special type – concealed from…

Luxury trips at the expense of dictatorships, servitude to autocrats and censorship of inconvenient journalists in the eve of the election of a new Secretary General of the Council of…

Journalist Asen Yordanov, owner and director of the site Bivol, is the only Bulgarian in the ranking of “Reporters Without Borders” – “100 Information Heroes,” published earlier this week. The…

Readers voted on Bivol’s fan page on Facebook to select the site’s investigative report of the year. Our investigation related to BSPLeaks – the talking points and the internet trolls…

Andy Greenberg at his book’s premiere in the Bulgarian Black Sea city of Burgas, photo Bivol “We are now witnessing a paradox – mega leaks of secret information on one…

October 2010: Assen Yordanov is receiving the Leipzig Media Award (“European Pulitzer”) in Leipzig, in the presence of the Minister of the Interior of Germany Thomas de Mézières We created…