Alexenia Dimitrova

Who is Alexenia Dimitrova?

Alexenia Dimitrova is a Bulgarian journalist and author with more than 21 years of experience. She works in the second largest daily in Bulgaria [24 Hours ]. Her favorite topics are secret archives of the Cold War era, shadow affairs and corruption, money laundering, suspicious ownership and property, and secret societies. Recently she has profiled finding lost people all over the world and reuniting them. For her series of publications about missing persons which started in July 2002, and still continues, she received Chernorizets Hrabar in November 2004. She had been nominated for the same award in 2003.

Dimitrova has published more than 4,000 stories in 40 media in Bulgaria, the USA, Russia, and Great Britain. Her book The Iron Fist - Inside the Bulgarian and American Secret Archives was published in March 2005 in London and in English by Artnik Publishing. The same book was published in Bulgaria in October 2005.

Dimitrova graduated from Sofia University in 1986 and has specializations on journalism in the World Press Institute, St. Paul, MN, and the University of Missouri, Columbia, Reuters, European Center for Journalism, and Danish School of Journalism in Aarhus. Mrs.