{"id":42938,"date":"2019-01-22T09:57:31","date_gmt":"2019-01-22T05:57:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mythdetector.ge\/profile\/gaytandzhieva-dilyana\/"},"modified":"2022-03-12T15:16:58","modified_gmt":"2022-03-12T11:16:58","slug":"gaytandzhieva-dilyana","status":"publish","type":"profiles","link":"https:\/\/mythdetector.ge\/en\/profiles\/gaytandzhieva-dilyana\/","title":{"rendered":"Gaytandzhieva Dilyana"},"content":{"rendered":"

Dilyana Gaytandzhieva is a Bulgarian journalist who released an investigative material titled \u201cThe Pentagon Bio-Weapons\u201d on an English-language portal South Front<\/a> on January 16, 2018. The portal is administered from Russia and it is registered on Russian domain, which frequently publishes conspiracy theories about military issues and intelligence. The same material in Russian was published by a web portal \u041d\u043e\u0432\u043e\u0441\u0442\u043d\u043e\u0439 \u0424\u0440\u043e\u043d\u0442<\/a> (News Front), which recognizes the independence of Donbass and notes that the purpose of the edition is to defend the interests of Russian civilization.<\/p>\n

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Before August 2017, Gaytandzhieva worked for a Bulgarian newspaper \u0422\u0440\u0443\u0434, where she released an article on July 4, 2017 about the Bulgarian Foreign Ministry allegedly corresponding with the Azerbaijani Embassy to Bulgaria on supplying weapons to terrorists in Syria through diplomatic flights. She also claimed that the United States, Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Turkey and other countries were also involved in the process.<\/p>\n

The article by Gaytandzhieva was reposted by Bulgarian print media, 80% of which is controlled<\/a> by pro-Russian oligarch and member of the Bulgarian Parliament, Delyan Peevski. According to the Bulgarian media outlets, the companies affiliated with Delyan Peevski were involved in the construction<\/a> of the South Stream, a pipeline projectto transport natural gas of the Russian Federation to Europe via Bulgaria, which actually represented an alternative to a Western-backed proposal for a pipeline, called Nabucco. Nabucco would have reduced Europe\u2019s dependence on Russian gas.<\/p>\n

Before working for \u0422\u0440\u0443\u0434 newspaper, Gaytandzhieva worked for the fourth most-watched Bulgarian television channel TV7, which was controlled by Tsvetan Vassilev, the main shareholder in Corporate Commercial Bank. In 2013, 9.9% of Corpbank shares were purchased by Russia\u2019s largest bank VTB. In 2016, Bulgaria filed a $1.3 billion lawsuit against Tsvetan Vassilev, accusing<\/a> him of using bank funds to acquire property and other assets that led to a subsequent liquidity crisis at the bank. In 2015, TV7 was taken<\/a> over by Louvrier Investment Company, managedby Pierre Louvrier. The latter has links to Russian oligarch, Konstantin Malofeev who has been sanctioned by the European Union for his \u201cfinancial support to separatists\u201d in Eastern Ukraine. Simultaneously, Malofeev owns a conservative TV channel in Russia, \u0426\u0430\u0440\u044c\u0433\u0440\u0430\u0434 \u0422\u0412 with Aleksandr Dugin being its editor-in-chief in 2015-2016.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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