Vezhdi Rashidov, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

    

Vezhdi Rashidov

Bulgarian sculptor, politician

Date of Birth: 14-Dec-1951

Place of Birth: Dimitrovgrad, Haskovo Province, Bulgaria

Profession: politician, sculptor

Nationality: Bulgaria

Zodiac Sign: Sagittarius


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About Vezhdi Rashidov

  • Vezhdi Letif Rashidov (Bulgarian: ????? ????? ???????, Turkish: Vecdi Latif Rasidoglu; b.
  • 14 December 1951) is a Bulgarian sculptor, GERB politician and was a Minister of Culture of Bulgaria. Rashidov was born in Dimitrovgrad to ethnic Turkish parents; however, he moved to Haskovo with his parents at age two.
  • His mother Kadrie Lyatifova, a singer of Bulgarian and Turkish folk songs, died in a car crash when he was in primary school.
  • His father Lyatif Rashidov was a miner in Madan and so was his brother Ruzhdi who died at 36 of cancer.
  • Until seventh grade, Rashidov lived and studied at an orphanage in Studen Kladenets near Kardzhali.
  • Rashidov then studied mining electrics and mechanics in Madan.
  • He graduated from the National Academy of Arts in Sofia in 1978.
  • As a sculptor, Rashidov has authored statuettes for a number of prominent prizes, as well as many large-scale works. Despite being an ethnic Turk, Rashidov as a prominent social figure has been an outspoken critic of the Movement for Rights and Freedoms.
  • He participated in the 2009 Bulgarian parliamentary election as GERB's voting list leader and proportional candidate in Kardzhali Province and became the first non-Movement for Rights and Freedoms candidate in many years to be elected to parliament from that constituency.
  • When GERB won the election and formed a government in 2009, Rashidov was the party's Minister of Culture.In 2014, when GERB formed a coalition government, Rashidov was for the second time the party's Minister of Culture.
  • He is currently holding this position. Rashidov is married and has a child.
  • In 2001, he was briefly arrested for assaulting a policeman.

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