Bulgarian Citizenship Directorate

In a concerning revelation, the ad hoc committee investigating the activities of Gleb Myshin uncovered that over the past three to four years, a staggering 343 candidates from the Russian Federation seeking Bulgarian citizenship were discovered to have submitted falsified documents.

Presenting his team and the Ministry's priorities on Tuesday, newly-appointed caretaker Justice Minister Yanaki Stoilov said that an inspection started on Monday in prisons and remand centres of their work since 2017 to date, in response to claims of businessman Svetoslav Ilchovski before Parliament, which was meanwhile disbanded, that records incidents of bullying of a prisoner.

In the last ten years - from 1 January 2010 to 22 October 2020 - a total of 77 829 applications for granting Bulgarian citizenship were filed submitted by citizens of the Republic of North Macedonia. Almost all are applications are based on Bulgarian origin.