People from Yambol Province - People from Yambol, Volen Siderov, Stiliyan Kovachev, Amaro Dialo, Stefan Karadzha, Georgi Mechedzhiev (Paperback)

Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: People From Yambol, Volen Siderov, Stiliyan Kovachev, Amaro Dialo, Stefan Karadzha, Georgi Mechedzhiev, Dimitar Khlebarov, Nikola Avramov, George Papazov, Svetla Bozhkova. Excerpt: Volen Nikolov Siderov (Bulgarian: ) (born 19 April 1956) is a controversial Bulgarian politician and chairman of the far right nationalist party Attack. He is famous for his hard-line attitude towards minorities in Bulgaria, especially Roma and Turks. Siderov was born in 1956 in Yambol, Bulgaria. He received an undergraduate degree in Applied Photography in Sofia, and before the fall of Communism in 1989, worked at the National Literature Museum as a photographer. After the fall of Communism, Siderov became a member of the newly-established Movement for Human Rights. During the fall of 1990, he became the editor-in-chief of Democracy (Bulgarian: ), the official newspaper of the Union of Democratic Forces (Siderov played a major role in establishing the paper as the official publication of the right-wing party). In 1992, he was fired from the newspaper and put an end to all relationships with his political partners. In 1995 Siderov led the PR Center of the Bulgarian Socialist Party during local elections in capital Sofia. Later he unsuccessfully tried to get a place in the lists for MP in the ex-king Simeon II's party NDSV. At one point he was appointed deputy editor-in-chief of Monitor, a newspaper of a political orientation that could be described as nationalist and conservative. In 2000, Siderov was presented with the award of the Union of the Bulgarian Journalists. Later, he was fired from Monitor as well, and he came to be the host of Attack, a talk show on the Bulgarian cable TV channel "SKAT". In it, he chastised the perceived corruption of the Bulgarian po... More: http://booksllc.net/?id=2299298