To be a member of
SKAT, a fighter pilot should be a Qualified Flying Instructor and clocked at least 2,000 hours of flying, of which about 1,000 hours should be on Kiran Mk II aircraft.
Ataka suggests that a meeting of Chukolov with the head of the Regional Unit of the Directorate of National Construction Control confirmed the optic links of
SKAT from Nessebar to Sveti Vlas and from Burgas to Sozopol and Primorsko to be illegal and showed that when the proceedings had reached court stage, center-right party GERB had started exercising pressure over law enforcement bodies and the witnesses did not appear to testify.
Saturday
SKAT TV released videos of the two incidents, which were published by OffNews.bg <a href="http://offnews.bg/index.php/216425/videokadri-ot-sblasaka-na-volen-i-ekip-na-tv-skat" target="_blank">HERE.
SKAT TV channel is owned by Valeri Simeonov, Siderov's former close ally and even best man at his wedding.
Ataka's leader Volen Siderov will be the anchor of a talk show on Alpha TV, a role that he feels comfortable in from his years as a TV anchor on the Bulgarian cable TV
SKAT before he and the
SKAT owner Valeri Simeonov fell out in 2009.
The claim was failed by the journalist from the nationalist
SKAT TV, Petar Zhekov, who tried the former President for slapping him on September 9, 2009, while he was filming a report about the ceremony commemorating the victims of Communism.
Assailants attacked the Varna office of Bulgarian TV
SKAT on 3 February 2010 with a Molotov cocktail, and the head office of TV
SKAT in Burgas was the target of a similar attack just one day earlier.
The Bulgarian nationalist party VMRO and its partner cable TV channel
SKAT have collected 200 000 signatures in support of their demand for a nation-wide referendum on Turkey's EU accession.
In November 2009, 10 municipal councilors in the Black Sea city of Burgas, including the owner of nationalist
Skat TV, canceled their Ataka membership and declared themselves independent.
The posters say that the gay parade is being organized by the Bulgarian Socialist Youth, an organization attached to the Bulgarian Socialist Party; "Spartacus", a gay/straight disco club in downtown Sofia which was shut down several years ago, and the RZS party, and with the media support of
SKAT TV.
The TV channel
SKAT, known for its nationalist programming has been also fined over a political discrimination complaint coming from a municipal councilman form the Black Sea city of Burgas, from the ruling Citizens for European Development of Bulgaria (GERB) party.
SEEMO recently condemned the the attack on TV
SKAT in Bulgaria and sent a letter to Bulgarian Prime Minister Boyko Borisov over a Blagoevgrad journalist facing threats from the notorious Galevi Brothers.
The Southeast Europe Media Organisation (SEEMO) strongly condemns the attack on TV
SKAT in Bulgaria.