Petar Mladenov
| Petar Toshev Mladenov Петър Тошев Младенов |
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| 1st President of Bulgaria | |
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In office 3 April 1990 – 6 July 1990 |
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| Prime Minister | Andrey Lukanov |
| Preceded by | Himself as Chairman of the State Council |
| Succeeded by | Stanko Todorov (Acting) |
| Chairman of the State Council of Bulgaria | |
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In office 17 November 1989 – 3 April 1990 |
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| Preceded by | Todor Zhivkov |
| Succeeded by | Himself as President |
| General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Bulgarian Communist Party | |
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In office 10 November 1989 – 2 February 1990 |
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| Preceded by | Todor Zhivkov |
| Succeeded by | End of Communist rule |
| Foreign Minister of Bulgaria | |
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In office 13 December 1971 – 24 October 1989 |
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| President | Todor Zhivkov |
| Preceded by | Ivan Hristov Bashev |
| Succeeded by | Boiko Dimitrov |
| Personal details | |
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22 August 1936 Toshevtsi, Vidin Province |
| Died | 31 May 2000 (aged 63) Sofia |
| Political party |
Bulgarian Communist Party (1963-1990) Bulgarian Socialist Party (1990-2000) |
| Spouse(s) | Galia Mladenova |
| Children | Tatyana |
Petar Toshev Mladenov (Bulgarian: Петър Тошев Младенов) (22 August 1936 – 31 May 2000) was a Bulgarian communist diplomat and politician. He was the last Communist leader of Bulgaria from 1989 to 1990, and briefly the first President of democratic Bulgaria in 1990.
Mladenov was born to a peasant family in the village of Toshevtsi, Vidin Province on 22 August 1936. His father was an anti-fascist partisan killed in action in 1944. He graduated from a military school, entered Sofia State University, and graduated from the Moscow State Institute of International Relations in 1963. Soon afterward, he joined the Bulgarian Communist Party.
Mladenov served as the first secretary of the party's committee in Vidin Province from 1969 to 1971. He joined the Politburo and became foreign minister in 1971, serving in that position for 18 years. In the same year, he was elected to the National Assembly. He was one of the closest associates to longtime leader Todor Zhivkov.
During the 1980s, he became attracted to Mikhail Gorbachev's reform efforts. He saw a chance to change Bulgaria's image as one of the most unreformed countries in the Soviet bloc. In May 1989, Zhivkov ordered the expulsion of most of Bulgaria's ethnic Turks. This brought near-unanimous international condemnation. Mladenov, who'd had to field most of the international complaints, was particularly upset because the expulsion violated an international human rights accord he'd signed four months earlier.
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