Svetoslav Todorov

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Bulgaria Correspondent

Svetoslav Todorov joined BIRN Hub as a Balkan Insight’s Bulgaria correspondent in 2020, right before the onset of the pandemic and the beginning of the anti-government protest wave in Bulgaria.

The increase of disinformation in Bulgaria amid the Russian invasion of Ukraine and recurring ideological clashes in parliament are integral topics to his work. He is based in Sofia.

Todorov’s original background is in arts and culture writing, while also covering topics dealing with history, education and human rights.

In Bulgaria, he wrote and edited for the news website Dnevnik.bg (2010-2014), the business and politics weekly Capital (from 2014 onwards), independent magazine VIJ (from 2016 onwards), and has also contributed to international outlets such as Romanian fact-checking platform Veridica, the German newspaper Die Tageszeitung, and the Bulgarian branches of Granta magazine and Esquire.

Todorov has experience also as an art curator and speaker at events organised by the Sofia International Literature Festival, the Rhodope Documentary Film Festival and Romania’s Alternativa Sociale.

He graduated in Bulgarian Philology and Visual Culture from Sofia University’s Faculty of Slavic Studies. Alongside Bulgarian, he is fluent in English and French.