Prime Minister Sergei Stanishev of Bulgaria

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Sergei Stanishev was a Soviet citizen and then Russian until 1996, when he acquired a Bulgarian citizenship and renounced his Russian one.

In December 2001 Stanishev was elected Chairman of the BSP at the party's Congress, and also Chairman of the Parliamentary Group of the Coalition for Bulgaria following the resignation of the former bearer of these positions Georgi Parvanov after his victory in the Presidential election in 2001.

Since April 2004 Stanishev has also been a member of the presidency of the Party of European Socialists.

Even though, at the beginning, older party members regarded him with suspicion due to his lack of experience, Stanishev has enjoyed considerable public approval mainly because of his great intellectual skills and his successful efforts to modernise the BSP.

In the general election of June 25, 2005, Stanishev was re-elected to the National Assembly, this time for a seat in Burgas.

Stanishev said that the next government "should be led by the party which won most votes in the elections.

Finally on August 15 Stanishev was able to form a three-party grand coalition with the party of outgoing Prime Minister Simeon Sakskoburggotski and with the Movement for Rights and Freedoms, a Turkish minority party.

Stanishev said the coalition's priorities would be "European integration, social responsibility and economic growth.

On August 17, 2005, with an official ceremony on 1 Dondukov Boulevard, Sergey Stanishev took office as Prime Minister.

Stanishev is an active Internet user.

In the next Parliament coalition culture and the skill to govern in a coalition will be crucial, Bulgarian PM Sergei Stanishev said at a joint sitting of the Bulgarian Socialist Party's MPs, ministers and.

A Bulgarian Prime Minister Sergei Stanishev said after theA talks with Putin that he had brought forward proposals that bring the disagreements to an end.

for the gas transit to resume," Fico said on his return from Moscow , where he and Bulgarian Prime Minister Sergei Stanishev met Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin.

Mr Stanishev is under pressure to secure supplies for his country as domestic.

Mr Stanishev has struggled to persuade Brussels to release more than EUR 500 M (GBP 470 M) of aid that has been frozen because it might be at risk from corruption.

Mr Stanishev has replaced key figures in the Interior Ministry and created an independent police force to try to break internal corruption, but there have been few prosecutions for high-level corruption and not one mafia conviction despite 150 gangland murders.

Stanishev is as much responsible for the crime in Bulgaria as every each Prime Minister should be! It is ridiculous to read his explanations about comparisons with the past.

Stanishev was born in Ukraine, studied in Moscow, made a PhD in Russian history there and than went to mainly learn English for one year at London School of Economics.

It is well known in political circles that Stanishev has his critics in the party, including senior member Tatyana Doncheva (subsequently deployed as the party’s mayoral candidate in the Sofia elections in October), while Roumen Ovcharov, party deputy leader and its leader in Sofia, is also said to covet Stanishev’s job as party boss.

Stanishev is not a man who can afford too many mistakes.

The Prime Minister Sergei Stanishev said that te government is about to search opportunities for cooperation with the leading companies in the sphere of lobbying and advertising.

SOFIA, May 9 (Xinhua) -- The Bulgarian government has requested expert aid from the European Union and the United States in the Interior Ministry reforms, mainly aimed at combating corruption, Prime Minister Sergei Stanishev said Friday.

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Bulgaria: Prime Minister Sergei Stanishev received a donation of EUR 500 000 from.

Prime Minister Sergei Stanishev received a donation of EUR 500 000 from.

Bulgarian-US Relations: Deepening Security Cooperation In June, Bulgaria's Prime Minister Sergey Stanishev met with US President George W.

Bulgaria's Prime Minister Sergei Stanishev had emergency phone calls Tuesday afternoon with his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin, Ukrainian Deputy Prime Minister Ivan Vasiunyk, and Russian energy giant Gazprom's CEO Alexei Miller, in which he demanded objective data about the gas supplies destined to Bulgaria.

Bulgaria - Ministry of Foreign AffairsMEETING OF DEPUTY MINISTER MILEN KEREMEDCHIEV WITH IVAN KHOTULEV, CHARGÉ D'AFFAIRES A.

Stanishev said other risks for the economy included structural problems in health care and education, the lack of skilled labor for certain sectors and heavy regional disparities in development.

EU Judging Bulgaria ‘Unfairly’ - PM", "Bulgarian Prime Minister Sergei Stanishev says that it’s not fair to compare his country with other EU states when it comes to reforming the judiciary and fighting crime", "Balkan Insight.

the Government's Information Service said on Monday.

Bulgarian Prime Minister Sergei Stanishev said after the�talks with Putin that he had brought forward proposals that bring the.

resume," Fico said on his return from Moscow, where he and Bulgarian Prime Minister Sergei Stanishev met Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin.

The unprecedented Southern Caucasus tour of Stanishev has been concluded, but diplomats and analysers have yet to search for and formulate its results.

In the capital of Yerevan the role of Stanishev was the role of a leader of a donor state.