Volen Siderov
Volen Siderov (Bulgarian: Волен Сидеров), Bulgarian politician, is Chairman of the nationalistic Ataka (Attack) coalition.
During the June 2005 parliamentary elections, the coalition led by Volen, surprisingly won 8.14% of the votes (that equals to 296848 votes) (Source: Central Elections Committee), thus becoming the 4th largest party represented in the parliament.
Siderov was born in 1956 in Yambol in Bulgaria. He graduated Applied Photography in Sofia and before the political changes of 1989, worked at the National Literature Museum.
After the fall of the Communism, Volen became a member of the newly established Movement for Human Rights. During the Fall of 1990, Siderov became the editor-in-chief of Democracy (Bulgarian: Демокрация) newspaper – the official newspaper of the Democratic Party at that time (Siderov played a major role in establishing the newspaper as the official newspaper of the right-wing party).
In 1992 he was surprisingly fired from the newspaper which became the reason for him to put an end to all relationship with his political partners. For the next eight years, he worked closely with another Bulgarian media tycoon – Petio Blaskov. At one point he was appointed vice editor-in-chief of Monitor newspaper and in 2000 – presented with the award of the Union Of The Bulgarian Journalists.
Siderov is an outspoken critic of Simeon Saxe-Coburg-Gotha and the leaders of most right-wing parties in Bulgaria.
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