Member of Historic Minority Heads Agency for Bulgarians Abroad

Domestic | August 12, 2009, Wednesday // 20:10|  views

Rayna Mandzhukova shown here as a cable TV host of a talk show dedicated to Bulgarians abroad. Photo by Skat TV

Rayna Madzhukova, a member of the Bulgarian historic minority in the Ukraine, has been appointed Chair of the State Agency for Bulgarians Abroad.

On Wednesday, the government of the GERB party dismissed the previous Chair, Dimitar Dimitrov.

Mandzhukova was born in 1970 in the village of Kayrakliya, Ukraine, in the so called region of Bessarabia (part of which is located in Moldova). Bessarabia is populated by about 200 000 ethnic Bulgarians whose ancestor fled from atrocities in the Ottoman Turkish Empire in the 18th and 19th century as it was part of the Russian Empire.

Mandzhukova came to Bulgaria in 1988, and graduated from the Sofia University St. Kliment of Ohrid with a degree in Bulgarian and Russia.

She has worked at the Agency for Bulgarians Abroad for over 10 years, reaching the position of head of the Information Directorate. Mandzhukova is a member and co-founder of the Global Bulgaria Association and the Association of Bulgarian Schools Abroad. She speaks Russian, Ukrainian, and French.

 

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Tags: Bulgarians abroad, Agency for Bulgarians Abroad, Rayna Mandzhukova, Bessarabia, Ukraine, moldova, historic minority, Ottoman Empire

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