site.btaTodor Tagarev to Be Nominated for Defence Minister

Prime Minister Kiril Petkov told a news briefing Monday that Todor Tagarev will be nominated as Defence Minister. The announcement comes after it transpired that the government would replace Defence Minister Stefan Yanev over his overly cautious rhetoric regarding the Ukraine crisis. 

Professor Todor Tagarev is a former caretaker Minister of Defence in the government headed by Marin Raikov in 2013. Prior to that, he served as Director for Defence Planning and as a National Armaments Director at the Bulgarian Ministry of Defence. He also sat on the NATO Research and Technology Board.

In 2016 Tagarev was appointed head of the Defence Institute but was relieved from the post a year later by Yanev himself who at the time was caretaker defence minister.

Currently Professor Tagarev leads both the IT for Security Department and the Centre for Security and Defence Management at the Institute of Information and Communication Technologies, part of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences. He is also in charge of the research teams focusing on EU crisis management and on the evolving concepts of security. He also serves as Director of the Defence Institute at the Ministry of Defence of the Republic of Bulgaria.

Tagarev is also Editor-in-Chief of the "Information & Security: An International Journal" and DCAF's series Security and Defence Management.