Podcast in English
Text size
Bulgarian National Radio © 2025 All Rights Reserved

Bulgarian-American police officers in the frontline against COVID-19 pandemic in USA

Washington, 28 March 2020
Photo: EPA.BGNES

More than 30 police officers of Bulgarian descent living in the United States work in Illinois and other US states in the frontline efforts to maintain order and curb the spread of the coronavirus. Most recently, they united in a Bulgarian-American Police Association, the BNR correspondent in Chicago Elena Tsaneva reports.

The new association joins together more than 30 Bulgarians who work in the US as police officers, detectives or investigators, as the president of the association is Mario Vulkov. Police officers with Bulgarian roots are currently most numerous in Chicago, Illinois, but  some of them work also in other cities across the USA. Among them are Miroslav Bashev who serves in Maui Police Department, Hawaii, investigator Dilyana Nicolova working in Lexington, Kentucky, deputy Sheriff Asen Dimitrov in the Sarasota County Sheriff's Office in Florida, and Officer Veronica Metanova in Wisconsin




Последвайте ни и в Google News Showcase, за да научите най-важното от деня!
Listen to the daily news from Bulgaria presented in "Bulgaria Today" podcast, available in Spotify.

More from category

The ship Vezhen

Sweden seizes Bulgarian ship sailing under Maltese flag

Swedish authorities have detained a ship suspected of sabotaging an undersea fiber optic cable in the Baltic Sea. The ship is the Bulgarian vessel Vezhen, which was in the area at the time of the damage. It sails under the Maltese flag and is owned by..

published on 1/27/25 11:36 AM

China bans imports of animals and animal products from several countries, including Bulgaria

China has banned the import of sheep, goats, poultry and equines from African, Asian and European countries.    The ban from the world's largest meat importer affects Ghana, Somalia, Qatar, Congo, Nigeria and Tanzania, Egypt, Palestine, Pakistan,..

published on 1/27/25 10:41 AM

Bulgaria is among the leading countries in the world in coin exports, including to the USA

Bulgarian exports to the USA in 2023 are worth 1.1 billion dollars, and number 1 on the export list with a share of nearly 19 percent are "coins that do not have an official exchange rate, other than gold coins" . This was reported by the Sega website..

published on 1/27/25 10:23 AM