Ralitsa Vassileva has interviewed many world leaders and high-profile figures, including Mikhail Gorbachev, Ariel Sharon, Henry Kissinger, and others.
10 Facts About Ralitsa Vassileva
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From 1992 to 2014, Vassileva was an anchor for CNN International.
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Ralitsa Vassileva anchored coverage of many major international news stories including most recently the Chilean miner rescue, the Iran student protests and Israel's Gaza offensive.
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Ralitsa Vassileva has done long-form documentaries like her half hour special on the 20th anniversary of the fall of Communism in her native Bulgaria.
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Ralitsa Vassileva has interviewed many notable senior international leaders and public figures such as former US Secretaries of State Henry Kissinger and Madeleine Albright, Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf, former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, chief Palestinian negotiator Saeb Erakat, Nigerian President Olusegun Obasanjo, Bulgarian President Petar Stoyanov, business entrepreneurs Ted Turner and Richard Branson, and Sinn Fein leader Gerry Adams.
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Ralitsa Vassileva began her career at CNN as anchor of CNN World Report, the world's only forum for international broadcasters to present news from their country before CNN's global audience.
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Ralitsa Vassileva cut her teeth in journalism covering the fall of communism in her native Bulgaria.
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Ralitsa Vassileva was born in Sofia, Bulgaria, and was educated at First English Language School in Sofia and in New Delhi, India.
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Ralitsa Vassileva has an MA in English Language and Literature from Sofia University.
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Ralitsa Vassileva recently acquired an MA in Political Science from Georgia State University in Atlanta.