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The United States and the United
Kingdom have imposed coordinated sanctions on a number of
Bulgarian politicians for corruption, with several of them
aligned with pro-Russian parties, according to the portal Balkan
Insight. Several high-profile Bulgarian politicians were
sanctioned on Friday by the Global Magnitsky Act, the US
Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control, and the British
government. According to the portal, among those designated by
the US are GERB member Vladislav Goranov, Finance Minister in
2017-2020 in Boyko Borissov's third cabinet, Russophile Movement
party leader Nickolay Malinov, who in 2019 was charged with
espionage, Bulgarian Socialist Party members 2017-2019 MP Ivan
Kirov and Rumen Ovcharov, Minister of Economy and Energy from
2005 to 2007, and Alexander Nikolov, former general director of
Bulgaria's sole nuclear power plant Kozloduy. The Bulgarian
Socialist Party, the successor to the former ruling Communist
Party, has traditionally supported Russia.
