Kiril Valchev

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Kiril Valchev
Кирил Александров Вълчев
Valchev in 2022
Born	Kirill Alexandrov Vylchev (1973-05-24) May 24, 1973 (age 53) Sofia, Bulgaria
Education	Sofia University
Occupations	lawyer, journalist

Kiril Aleksandrov Valchev (born May 24, 1973) is a Bulgarian lawyer and journalist. He is the director general of the state news agency BTA.

Biography

He graduated with a law degree from Sofia University. He completed a radio management course at Deutsche Welle and an internship at the Bulgarian section of the BBC in London. In the first half of the 1990s, he was employed in the foreign news department of BTA and began hosting the current affairs programs Sedmicata (in 1994) and Godinata (in 1996) on Darik Radio. For several years, he worked as an academic at his alma mater in Sofia. In 2005, he became managing partner of a law firm specializing in media and intellectual property law. In the same year, he assumed the positions of board secretary and legal advisor at SBNEM, the association of Bulgarian public media.

In January 2021, the National Assembly elected him Director General of the BTA agency. In December 2025, he was appointed to this position for a second term. In September 2026, President Iliana Iotova nominated Valchev as her candidate for Vice President of Bulgaria in the presidential elections of the same year. In the first round on 25 October 2026, they took first place with 34.76% of the vote, thus advancing to the second round.

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