One of the most prominent international journalists in Bulgaria, Konstantin Ivanov, passed away on July 28, 2018, at the age of 87, announced the Union of Bulgarian Journalists on its website.

“Konstantin Ivanov had one of the brightest and most memorable pens in Bulgarian international journalism'', wrote UBJ. “He was an excellent expert and analyst of world problems, as well as their repercussions in Bulgaria. He understood the Middle East with particular depth and sensitivity, where he had worked for a long time as a correspondent. In addition to his high professionalism, his colleagues will remember Costa for his exceptional human finesse and inimitable irony'', the Union of Bulgarian Journalists wrote further. 

Konstantin Ivanov was born in 1938 in Sofia. He graduated from the Foreign Languages High School in Lovech and studied Bulgarian Philology. As a student at Sofia University, he began contributing to the French section of Radio Bulgaria. In 1978, he was sent as a correspondent to Beirut for the newspaper ''Rabotnichesko Delo'', where he covered events during the Lebanese Civil War. From 1983 to 1988, he served as director of Radio Bulgaria. He was also a representative of the Bulgarian Union of Journalists at the International Organization of Journalists in Prague in the period 1988-1993. After returning to Bulgaria, he continued his career at the newspaper ''Duma''.

Radio Bulgaria expresses its deepest condolences to Konstantin Ivanov‘s family and loved ones.

Published and translated by Kostadin Atanasov

Photo: sbj-bg.eu