Background
His mother Pauline was born in New York City and was a member of the Young Communist League at the City College of New New York
His mother Pauline was born in New York City and was a member of the Young Communist League at the City College of New New York
Born in New York City, United States. in the emigrant family of Communist functionary Georgi Pirinski, Senior, he has roots from Pirin Macedonia. She was a professor of English at Sofia University. His father found refuge in the United States. after he participated in the unsuccessful Communist uprising against the Bulgarian regime in 1923 and was expelled from the United States. as an undesirable alien about 1951.
While a convinced communist, Pirinski did show some flashes of independent thinking, such as expressing disagreement in a private conversation with foreign visitors in 1970 at the decision of Bulgarian media to downplay the United States. moonwalk the previous year.
In the late 1970s, Pirinski was an aide to then Deputy Prime Minister Georgi Lukanov and then at the age of 31 became Bulgaria"s youngest deputy minister (of foreign trade). He renounced his United States. citizenship in 1974, but political opponents later argued that the renunciation was judicially null.
A vice-premier during the Georgi Atanasov and Andrey Lukanov governments and a foreign minister during the Zhan Videnov government, Pirinski was the Chairman of the National Assembly of Bulgaria from 11 July 2005 to 25 June 2009.
European Council on Foreign Relations.