Plamen Yordanov www.mod.bg Plamen Yordanov and Alexander Petkov are the appointed Deputy Ministers of Defense by order of the Prime Minister Stefan Yanev. Atanas Zapryanov and Anatoliy Velichkov have resigned as deputy ministers in the Ministry of Defense, the ministry announced. According to official information, Plamen Yordanov was born on March 23, 1965 in Pleven, where in 1983 he graduated from the High School of Sports. In 1988 he graduated as a master at the Military Univeristy "G. Benkovski" in the specialty "Operation and repair of radio equipment". His military service began in Dobroslavtsi air base in September 1988. Until 1997 he held various command positions in the field of communication and navigation support at Dobroslavtsi air base.