Background
Karakachanov was born in Sofia on September 11, 1960, in the family of General
Karakachanov was born in Sofia on September 11, 1960, in the family of General
He completed his secondary education in Moscow, then Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics, and went on to read philosophy at Sofia University. In 1989 he obtained a Doctor of Philosophy within the Programme for Research of the Human Brain (the title of his thesis is "An integrated approach to man as a bio-psycho-social creature: dialectics of the biological, psychological and social") and became an assistant lecturer.
Panayot Karakachanov. In 1993 graduated in Economics from UNWE. Currently, Karakachanov teaches in Sofia University and SULSIT. Author of "Manitoba and Consciousness". Married, with a child.
Before the regime change of 1989, Karakachanov was a City Councillor in Sofia.
A third, Ecoglasnost, was founded in Karakachanov"s apartment on April 11, 1989. Participated in the Round table negotiations between the ruling Communist party and the opposition, whose goal was to prepare the country for the first post-Communist elections.
Karakachanov was elected to the Seventh Great National Assembly (July 10, 1990 - October 2, 1991), which forged the current Constitution of Bulgaria, and to the Thirty-Eighth National Assembly (May 7, 1997 - April 19, 2001). Karakachanov served as Caretaker Mayor of Sofia (first mayor of the Union for French Democracy) from October 17, 1990 to October 20, 1991.
After the 1989 changes, Karakachanov and the Green Party became a founding member of the Union of Democratic Forces, Bulgaria"s opposition organisation.