“Bulgaria is at war against freedom of speech,” stated Asen Yordanov, the founder of the Investigative Journalism Site “Bivol” in an interview for the podcast “MFRR in Focus”. The interview…
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Interview for the International Press Institute (IPI) Podcast
The war against freedom of speech in Bulgaria
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Bivol’s reporter Dimitar Stoyanov was briefly detained for “ID check” during the “Great People Uprising” (as participants called it) protest rally against the government on September 2, 2020. The journalist…
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The Supreme Administrative Court (SAC) upheld the decisions of two panels of the Administrative Court in the western city of Pernik that the detentions of reporter Dimitar Stoyanov and an…
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Under the patronage of the Prosecutor’s Office, there is a coordinated institutional and media attack against journalists Atanas Tchobanov and Assen Yordanov • The Prosecutor’s Office launches proceedings against journalists…
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Interview of Bivol publisher Asen Yordanov for Frognews
Assen Yordanov: What Is Happening to Me Is Called Tyranny
The Prosecutor’s Office and the Interior Ministry keep secret the name of the public prosecutor from the Supreme Prosecutor’s Office of Cassations, who is investigating me over a fake signal…
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Russian police arrested Thursday in Moscow Ivan Golunov, investigative journalist of the respected site Meduza, on “drug possession” accusations. There are suspicions that the arrest may have been “ordered” by…
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We are dedicated to the Truth. We stand behind every one of our words and publications. Sadly, the Truth is that Bulgaria is gravely ill from corruption and captured by…
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Following the murder of Slovak journalist Jan Kuciak, the West worries about expanding authoritarian models and media concentration
Le Monde: Bulgaria Is Most Striking Example of Lack of Media Freedom in Europe
The 109th place of Bulgaria in the Reporters Without Borders’ Freedom of the Press ranking is strongly emphasized in the analysis of the alarming decline of media freedom in Central…
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Threats and ugly intimidation, accompanied by obscene language used by the former Head of the Main Directorate for Combatting Organized Crime (GDBOP), Stanimir Florov – this is what journalist Katya…