Todor Zhivkov’s son – Vladimir Zhivkov, is died this morning at the age of 69, informs BNT. It is reported that he was treated in a Sofia hospital, but it is not specified what his diagnosis was.
The death of Vladimir Zhivkov is correct 40 years after the death of his sister Lyudmila Zhivkova, who passed away on July 21, 1981.
The news was announced by Valya Slavkova – the wife of the late Ivan Slavkov, who before his marriage to her was the husband of Lyudmila Zhivkova.
Vladimir Zhivkov was born on June 5, 1952 in Sofia, in the family of the then secretary of the Central Committee of the Bulgarian Communist Party Todor Zhivkov and Mara Maleeva-Zhivkova. In 1971 he graduated from the 35th high school with Russian language teaching in Sofia. He has been a member of the Bulgarian Communist Party since 1971. He then graduated in law from Sofia University. While studying he was a member of the Sofia City Committee of DKMS.
In 1980 he started working as a research associate at the Institute of State and Law Sciences at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences. Under the supervision of his supervisor, Yaroslav Radev, in 1981 he defended a dissertation on “Legal Assessment of the Nuremberg Trials”, probably written by Radev himself.
Vladimir Zhivkov has two marriages. The first is with Marusya Mirchevska – they have a son Todor Zhivkov, his second wife is Valentina Stanimirova, with whom they have a daughter Elizabeth Zhivkova.
After the death of his sister Lyudmila Zhivkova, he became the director general of the Flag of Peace Center – until 1989. In the same year he was elected a member of the Bureau of the Central Committee of the DCMS. From 1982 to February 1990 he was chairman of the Lyudmila Zhivkova International Foundation.
From May 27, 1983 to June 1989 he was vice-chairman of the Committee on Culture. In 1986 he became Deputy Chairman of the Council for Spiritual Development at the Council of Ministers. From 1986 until his expulsion in 1989 he was a member of the Central Committee of the Bulgarian Communist Party. Member of the 8th and 9th National Assemblies and member of the Committee on Spiritual Development and of the Steering Committee of the Bulgarian Interparliamentary Group. (Wikipedia)
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