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Volen Siderov

Politician

Volen Siderov is a politically exposed person. They are a person of interest by virtue of their position and the influence they may hold. They have not been found on international sanctions lists.

Type	Person				[sources]
Name	Volen Nikolov Siderov · Volen Siderov · Wolen Siderow · Волен Николов Сидеров · Волен Сидеров · 4 more...				[sources]
Alias	Volen Nikolov Siderov · Volen Siderov · Volen Siderow · Wolen Nikolow Siderow · Wolen Siderow · 9 more...				[sources]
Weak alias	Siderow · Сидеров · 沃伦·西德罗夫				[sources]
Birth date	1956-04-19				[sources]
Place of birth	Yambol				[sources]
Gender	male				[sources]
Nationality	Bulgaria				[sources]
Country	Bulgaria				[sources]
Citizenship	Bulgaria				[sources]
Classification	National government (unknown status)				[sources]
Political association	Attack · Union of Democratic Forces				[sources]
Wikidata ID	Q351040				[sources]
Position	National Assembly (member, 2005-2009) · National Assembly (member, 2009-2013) · National Assembly (member, 2013-2014) · National Assembly (member, 2014-2017) · National Assembly (member, 2017-) · 8 more...				[sources]
Education	Shumen University				[sources]
Religion	Eastern Orthodox Church				[sources]
Last change	2026-01-18	Last processed	2026-01-22	First seen	2019-05-21

Descriptions

Bulgarian politician

— Wikidata non-official source, 2023-07-18

Relationships

Family members
Relative	Relationship	Start date	End date
Denitsa Gadzheva Politician	spouse	2016	-
Kapka Georgieva Close Associate	spouse	2006	2011

Positions held
Position occupied	Start date	End date
Member of the National Assembly	2009-06-17	2009-06-25
Member of the National Assembly

Data sources

MySociety's EveryPolitician Dataset of National Legislators40,653

All members of national legislatures in the world, collected from hundreds of government web sites and consolidated via Wikidata.

Global · MySociety · non-official source

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PEP position annotations by OpenSanctions526,278

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External dataset · OpenSanctions · non-official source

Wikidata334,584

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External dataset · Global · Wikidata · non-official source

Source data IDs: evpo-3b33bcf3-de0b-42f1-973a-d7f47e1a031c · evpo-91cf710e-c744-438e-82f9-8619c30f8715

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