Bivol.bg

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rdf:langString Atanas Tchobanov, Dimitar Stoyanov, Vildan Bayryamova, Tatiana Christi, Nikolay Marchenko

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rdf:langString Bivol.bg, also known as Bivol, is an investigative media based in Bulgaria which is part of the Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project network and an official partner of WikiLeaks. Its team comprises , and . Tchobanov is a member of the executive committee of the Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project. The European Commission has referred to one of Bivol's investigations known as Yaneva Gate in their 2016 report on Bulgaria under the Mechanism for Cooperation and Verification. This mechanism measures the country's progress in the area of corruption and judicial independence. In 2010, Assen Yordanov from Bivol.bg received a Leipzing Media Award, which is meant to "honor journalists, publishers, authors and institutions from all over the world who dedicate themselves to ensuring and developing the freedom of the press by demonstrating willingness to take risks, strong personal commitment, persistence, courage and democratic conviction." Yordanov was also nominated for an award by Reporters Without Borders in 2013. In 2019, Bivol's journalist Dimitar Stoyanov received the Axel Springer Award for investigative journalism together with a colleague from the RISE Project Romania. In 2020, Bivol journalists Atanas Tchobanov and Dimitar Stoyanov started the BIRD project which stands for Bureau for Investigative Reporting and Data.