Volen Siderov
| Volen Siderov | |
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| Chairman of Attack | |
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Assumed office 17 April 2005 |
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| Personal details | |
| Born |
19 April 1956 Yambol, Bulgaria |
| Nationality | Bulgarian |
| Political party |
United Patriots (2016-present) Attack (2005-present) |
| Spouse(s) | Kapka Siderova (Separated) |
| Domestic partner | Denitsa Gadzheva |
| Children | Volen Siderov, Jr. |
| Profession |
Author Journalist Politician |
| Religion | Christian Orthodox |
United Patriots (2016-present)
Volen Nikolov Siderov (Bulgarian: Волен Николов Сидеров) (born 19 April 1956) is a Bulgarian politician and chairman of the nationalist party Attack. He has been the editor of numerous newspapers and has authored five books.
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. His brother, Dr. Plamen Siderov, is a mathematician and lectures at Sofia University.
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: Демокрация), 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).
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 came to be the host of Attack, a talk show on the Bulgarian cable TV channel "SKAT".
In 2002 Siderov was invited to a controversial anti-globalisation conference in Moscow where he rubbed shoulders with people like Ahmed Rami and David Duke.
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