Hristo Smolenov is a Bulgarian scientist, logician and antiterrorism expert, born 1954 in

Plovdiv Plovdiv ( bg, Пловдив, ), is the second-largest city in Bulgaria, standing on the banks of the Maritsa river in the historical region of Thrace. It has a population of 346,893 and 675,000 in the greater metropolitan area. Plovdiv is the c ...

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. In 2007 was revealed as associated with the communist secret services.

Academic career

After graduating from the

Moscow State University M. V. Lomonosov Moscow State University (MSU; russian: Московский государственный университет имени М. В. Ломоносова) is a public research university in Moscow, Russia and the most prestigious ...

he became a guest professor at the

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and at the

Catholic University of America The Catholic University of America (CUA) is a private Roman Catholic research university in Washington, D.C. It is a pontifical university of the Catholic Church in the United States and the only institution of higher education founded by U.S. ...

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. He is an associate professor at the

Bulgarian Academy of Sciences The Bulgarian Academy of Sciences (abbreviated BAS; bg, Българска академия на науките, ''Balgarska akademiya na naukite'', abbreviated ''БАН'') is the National Academy of Bulgaria, established in 1869. The Academy ...

. As a specialist in logic and methodology of science he has long been involved in creative solutions in non-standard situations.

Books and publications

* Codes in Space, 2016 * Zagora - Varna - the hidden super-culture, 2012 * The Lost Aurolithic Civilization? Codes from a Black Sea Atlantis, 2010 * Self-Producing Terror, 2005 * The Market Life of Global Terrorism, 2004 * The Cannibals Paradox: Global Terrorism and Hyper-Capital, 2003 * Struktur und Dynamik wissenschaftlicher Theorien: Beiträge zur Wissenschaftsgeschichte und Wissenschaftstheorie aus der bulgarischen Forschung, 1990 * Zeno's paradoxes and temporal becoming in dialectical atomism, 1984 * Truthfulness and non-trivial contradiction, 1984

Political career

Smolenov initiated the creation of Independent Society of Ecoglasnost in 1988, which later became a founding member of the umbrella opposition movement Union of Democratic Forces. Between 1995-1997 he was the Parliamentary Secretary of the Bulgarian Ministry of Defense. In 1999 Smolenov was elected for MP in the 38th Bulgarian National Assembly.

Awards and achievements

In 2017 Smolenov was honored with the title Honorary Professor of the

Nikola Vaptsarov Naval Academy Nikola Vaptsarov Naval Academy (NVNA) (Bulgarian: ''Висше Военноморско Училище "Никола Йонков Вапцаров", ВВМУ'') is the oldest technical educational institution in the Republic of Bulgaria. Its histo ...

References

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