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Petya Parvanova
Petya Parvanova (; born 12 July 1960) was the interior minister of Bulgaria for a brief period in 2013. She was the first woman to head the ministry in the country. Early life and education Parvanova was born in Sofia on 12 July 1960. She holds a bachelor's degree in German philology, which she received from Sofia University in 1991. She received a master's degree in law from New Bulgarian University in 1998. Career From 1978 to 1981 Parvanova was an administrator at Balkantourist. From 1982 to 1991 she served as an interpreter at the East German embassy in Sofia. Later she worked as an assistant and translator at various companies. From 1999 to 2001 she served as the head of the international relations and protocol sector at the Prosecutor-General's office. In 2001, Purvanova was named as the deputy director at the same body, and later, she became the director of international cooperation at the interior ministry. She was promoted to the rank of police general. On 12 March 201 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ministry Of Interior (Bulgaria)
The Ministry of Interior (, abbreviated ''МВР'', ''MVR'') of Bulgaria is the Ministry (government department), ministry charged with the national security and the upholding of law and order (politics), law and order in the country. The ministry was established in 1879 under Knyaz Alexander of Battenberg with the first prime minister and interior minister of what was then the autonomous Principality of Bulgaria being Todor Burmov. As of September 2023 the Minister of Interior is Atanas Ilkov. Border Troops In the 1980s, the Border Troops (Гранични войски) were a paramilitary formation under the Interior Ministry tasked with guarding Bulgaria's borders. Heavily concentrated on Bulgaria's Iron Curtain border with NATO members Greece and Turkey the Border Troops would have come under the Ministry of People's Defence in times of war. However, the frontier with Romania was also actively defended. After the Cold War the border troops were reformed as the Border Polic ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marin Raykov
Marin Raykov Nikolov ( ; born 17 December 1960) is a Bulgarian people, Bulgarian politician and diplomat who was appointed to serve as a Caretaker government, caretaker Prime Minister of Bulgaria and Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Bulgaria), minister of foreign affairs of Bulgaria on 12 March 2013 by List of heads of state of Bulgaria, Bulgarian president Rosen Plevneliev. He left office on 29 May 2013 with his interim deputy PM Ekaterina Zakharieva. Raykov served as a deputy Foreign Minister in the governments of Ivan Kostov (1998–2001) and Boyko Borisov (2009–2010). From 2010 to 2013, he served as an ambassador of Bulgaria in France. Marin Raykov’s father, Rayko Nikolov, was himself a career diplomat. See also *Raykov Government, Raykov Government (88th Bulgarian Cabinet) *List of foreign ministers in 2014 * Foreign relations of Bulgaria *List of Bulgarians References External links , - {{DEFAULTSORT:Raykov, Marin 1960 births Ministers of foreign a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rosen Plevneliev
Rosen Asenov Plevneliev (, born 14 May 1964) is a Bulgarian politician who served as the 4th President of Bulgaria from 2012 to 2017. Affiliated with the GERB party, he previously served as Minister of Regional Development and Public Works from 2009 to 2011. Biography Rosen Plevneliev was born in Gotse Delchev. His mother, Slavka Plevnelieva, was a teacher, and his father, Asen Plevneliev, was an activist of the Communist Party. He relocated to Blagoevgrad alongside his parents when he turned 10 years old. His family descended from Bulgarian refugees from southern Macedonia who resettled from today's village of Petrousa in the municipality of Prosotsani in Drama regional unit, Greek Macedonia, in 1913. The Plevneliev family name refers to the Bulgarian name of the village Petroussa, Plevnya (Плевня, "barn"). Plevneliev studied at Blagoevgrad Mathematical and Natural Sciences High School, from which he graduated in 1982. In 1989 he graduated from the Higher Mech ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tsvetan Tsvetanov
Tsvetan Genchev Tsvetanov (; born 8 April 1965) is a Bulgarian politician and former government official. He served as the chairman of the GERB party until 2009. On 8 July 2009, following his party's victory in the 2009 parliamentary election, he was designated Minister of the Interior by party leader Boyko Borisov. Tsvetanov's tenure as Minister of the Interior was marked by controversy. He eventually distanced himself from Borisov after facing pressure to resign from his leadership roles within the party due to his involvement in a real estate corruption scandal. Tsvetanov left the party and established the political party Republicans for Bulgaria, alongside other former GERB members who had defected. Career Born in Bulgaria's capital city, Sofia, Tsvetanov, holds a degree from the National Sports Academy and a postgraduate degree in law from the University of National and World Economy. From 2001 to 2005, Tsvetanov was operative assistant to Boyko Borisov, who was Chi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tsvetlin Yovchev
Tsvetlin Yovchev () is a Bulgarian politician, who served in the security sector as a head of the DANS National Security State Agency in the Borisov Government and as a Minister of Interior in the Oresharski Government. He was also chief of cabinet of former president Rosen Plevneliev. Yovchev holds a Master's in economics from Sofia University. He is married and has one child. Yovchev speaks Russian Russian(s) may refer to: *Russians (), an ethnic group of the East Slavic peoples, primarily living in Russia and neighboring countries *A citizen of Russia *Russian language, the most widely spoken of the Slavic languages *''The Russians'', a b ... and English in addition to his native Bulgarian. References 1964 births Living people People from Pleven Government ministers of Bulgaria Sofia University alumni {{Bulgaria-politician-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sofia University
Sofia University "St. Kliment Ohridski" () is a public university, public research university in Sofia, Bulgaria. It is the oldest institution of higher education in Bulgaria. Founded on 1 October 1888, the edifice of the university was constructed between 1924 and 1934 with the financial support of the brothers Evlogi Georgiev and Hristo Georgiev (patron), Hristo Georgiev (whose sculptures are now featured on its façade) and has an area of 18,624 m2 and a total of 324 premises. The university has 16 faculties and three departments, where over 21,000 students receive their education. The current Rector (academia), rector is Georgi Valchev. History The university was founded on 1 October 1888—ten years after the liberation of Bulgaria—to serve as Bulgaria's primary institution of higher education. Initially, it had four regular and three additional lecturers and 49 students. It was founded as a higher pedagogical course, it became a higher school after a few months and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
New Bulgarian University
New Bulgarian University (, also known and abbreviated as НБУ, NBU) is a private university based in Sofia, Bulgaria. Its campus is in the western district of the city, known for its proximity to the Vitosha nature park. The university also owns multiple other buildings across the country, as well as its own publishing house and a library. Among the list of NBU Honorary Doctors and Honorary Professors are Richard Rorty, Thomas Sebeok, Wolfgang Iser, Terry Eagleton, Julia Kristeva, Jean-Pierre Vernant, Ralf Dahrendorf, Steve Forbes, Geert Hofstede, Ennio Morricone, Milcho Leviev, Raina Kabaivanska, Alexander Fol, Vera Mutafchieva, and Georgy Fotev. The mission of New Bulgarian University is to: - be an autonomous academic institution that supports students in their entrepreneurial and personal development. - be a liberal academic institution, based on the link between education, research and entrepreneurship. - provide interdisciplinary general and specialised education ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
German Philology
German studies is an academic field that researches, documents and disseminates German language, German literature, literature, and culture in its historic and present forms. Academic departments of German studies therefore often focus on Culture of Germany, German culture, German history, and German politics in addition to the language and literature component. Approaches to the discipline vary by country. Modern German studies is usually seen as a combination of two sub-disciplines: German linguistics alongside Germanophone literature and cultural studies. Common names for "German Studies" for the field within German-speaking countries are , , and . In English, the terms Germanistics or Germanics are sometimes used (mostly by Germans), but the subject is more often referred to as ''German studies'', ''German language and literature'', or ''German philology''. Academics who specialize in German studies are referred to as Germanists. German linguistics German linguistics is tra ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Balkantourist
Balkantourist () is the oldest existing Bulgarian tour operator, established on 6 January 1948 as a state-owned government monopoly in what was then the People's Republic of Bulgaria. Privatised in 1995, it has continued to exist in the post-1989 conditions of market economy. Balkantourist was founded as a self-supporting enterprise, part of the Ministry of Railways, during the government of Georgi Dimitrov. With a starting capital of 300 million leva, its initial service was to compensate Czechoslovakia's enterprises in Bulgaria that were nationalized after the Bulgarian coup d'état of 1944 by offering holidays on the Bulgarian Black Sea Coast to Czechoslovakian citizens. As the war reparations imposed on Bulgaria after World War II made the country unable to compensate Czechoslovakia financially, Czechoslovakian leader Klement Gottwald suggested the idea. In the following decades, Balkantourist gradually expanded its business to include mountain and cultural tourism in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Caretaker Government
A caretaker government, also known as a caretaker regime, is a temporary ''ad hoc'' government that performs some governmental duties and functions in a country until a regular government is elected or formed. Depending on specific practice, it consists of either randomly selected members of parliament or outgoing members until their dismissal. Caretaker governments in representative democracies are usually limited in their function, serving only to maintain the '' status quo'', rather than truly govern and propose new legislation. Unlike the government it is meant to temporarily replace, a caretaker government does not have a legitimate mandate (electoral approval) to exercise aforementioned functions. Definition Caretaker governments may be put in place when a government in a parliamentary system is defeated in a motion of no confidence, or in the case when the house to which the government is responsible is dissolved, to be in place for an interim period until an electi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1960 Births
It is also known as the " Year of Africa" because of major events—particularly the independence of seventeen African nations—that focused global attention on the continent and intensified feelings of Pan-Africanism. Events January * January 1 – Cameroon becomes independent from France. * January 9– 11 – Aswan Dam construction begins in Egypt. * January 10 – British Prime Minister Harold Macmillan makes the "Wind of Change" speech for the first time, to little publicity, in Accra, Gold Coast (modern-day Ghana). * January 19 – A revised version of the Treaty of Mutual Cooperation and Security between the United States and Japan ("U.S.-Japan Security Treaty" or "''Anpo (jōyaku)''"), which allows U.S. troops to be based on Japanese soil, is signed in Washington, D.C. by Prime Minister Nobusuke Kishi and President Dwight D. Eisenhower. The new treaty is opposed by the massive Anpo protests in Japan. * January 21 ** Coalbrook mining disaster: A coal mine ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Living People
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