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          The new actor was a party, called Ataka, organised around Volen Siderov, a TV journalist radically criticising the political establishment as corrupt and....

          Bulgaria’s Ataka Party: An Unlikely Blend of Left and Right

          Volen Siderov, leader of Ataka.

          Parliament elections in May, Volen Siderov, leader of Ataka.

        1. Siderov publicly inveighed against Bulgaria's Turkish and Roma minorities and portrayed himself as the protector of a beleaguered nation.
        2. The new actor was a party, called Ataka, organised around Volen Siderov, a TV journalist radically criticising the political establishment as corrupt and.
        3. In , Volen Siderov, the leader of the radical Ataka, reached the runoff of the election for Bulgarian president chiefly on a ticket against.
        4. Volen Siderov, Ataka's leader, traveled to Moscow in celebrate Putin's sixtieth birthday and express admiration for the Russian president's strong.

          5. Photo by John Feffer.

          Cross-posted from . John is currently traveling in Eastern Europe and observing its transformations since

          Three items in Volen Siderov’s office reflect his current image.

          The religious icons on the wall speak to his embrace of traditional Bulgarian values and to the agreement his party concluded with the Bulgarian Orthodox Church in The antique sword hanging nearby stands in for his militancy.

          And the heavy boxing bag is part of his personal commitment to physical fitness as well as a willingness to engage in physical altercations.

          Volen Siderov is the leader of Ataka, perhaps the most controversial political party in Bulgaria.

          Ataka's leader, Volen Siderov, was described in The New York Times as “a former journalist turned xenophobic nationalist,” and has publicly.

          Ataka – or Attack – came to prominence in , when it placed fourth in the parliamentary elections. Siderov himself came in second in the presidential race the following year. The party’s platform mixes a left-wing critique of globali