Bulgaria's Caretaker PM Appoints Deputy Ministers

Bulgaria's caretaker Prime Minister Georgi Bliznashki has appointed the first batch of caretaker deputy ministers.

Radoslav Rusev, Angel Petrov and Yordanka Chobanova will join the team of the Regional Development Ministry. Angel Petrov was a Deputy Minister of Regional Development in the caretaker government of Marin Raykov. Yordanka Chobanova is currently an Adviser to the President Rosen Plevneliev and a lecturer at the Technical University in Sofia. Radoslav Rusev is a senior adviser, Water and Environment, in New Europe Corporate Advisory.

The caretaker Deputy Minister of Investment Planning Georgi Savov is an alumnus of the University of Architecture, Civil Engineering and Geodesy in Sofia. Since 1994, Savov has managed two architectural design and project management companies.

Master of Pharmacy Lidiya Neycheva is the hospital pharmacy manager at Tokuda Hospital Sofia. She was Deputy Minister of Health in the previous caretaker government headed by Marin Raykov.

The new Deputy Minister of Finance Violeta Petkova has been working in the Public Financial Inspection Agency as a Public Internal Auditor, Head of department, Head of directorate, and from August 2010 to June 2013 as its director.

The team of the caretaker Interior Minister includes three deputies – Filip Gunev, Andrey Yankulov, and Kiril Hadzhihristev. Filip Gunev was Deputy Interior Minister in the previous caretaker government. He holds and MA in Social Anthropology from the University of Columbia, and a PhD in Sociology. Andrey Yankulov holds an MA in Law from the Sofia University "St. Kliment Ohridski" and is currently prosecutor at the Sofia Regional Prosecutor's Office.

Kiril Hadzhihristov, former Director of the district police directorate in...