Elena Yoncheva
Elena Nikolova Yoncheva (Bulgarian: Елена Николова Йончева) is a Bulgarian freelance journalist and former Bulgarian National Television correspondent, who has reported from many conflict areas. Yoncheva has authored more than 25 TV documentaries on these conflicts,[1] and while reporting from Iraq in 2003, she had a narrow escape from tragedy being rescued from armed civilians by an Iraqi official.[2]
Yoncheva was born on 27 May 1964 in Sofia, to parents Nikola and Larisa. She datеd Sergey Stanishev, former Prime Minister of Bulgaria, between 1994 and 2009; they had known each other since their student years in Moscow, Russia. She has reported from Kosovo, Algeria, Chechnya, Israel, Somalia, Afghanistan, Iraq, Venezuela, Colombia and other hot spots. Yoncheva has also authored a documentary on the Bulgarian Antarctic base, the Roma in Lom and on other topics. In 2008, she became a participant in bTV's television series Dancing Stars.
[edit] References
- ^ "Elena Yoncheva". United Nations Development Program. http://www.undp.bg/en/rmtl_elena_yoncheva.php. Retrieved 2006-07-07.[dead link]
- ^ Petrov, Plamen. "The Bulgarian Press on the War in Iraq". Worldpress.org, April 15, 2003. http://www.worldpress.org/Europe/1047.cfm. Retrieved 2006-07-07.
[edit] External links
- "CD Portfolio for Elena Yoncheva". Elido Media (LAMEL Ltd.). http://www.elido.com/cgi-bin/e-cms/vis/vis.pl?s=001&p=0012&n=000093&g=. Retrieved 2006-07-07.
- Nacheva, Velina (2003-01-16). "Between terrorists, apartheid and MPS". The Sofia Echo. http://www.sofiaecho.com/article/between-terrorists-apartheid-and-mps/id_6254/catid_32. Retrieved 2006-07-07.
