Georgi Ivanov Kyoseivanov (19 January 1884, Peshtera

Peshtera

Peshtera is a town in southwestern Bulgaria, part of Pazardzhik Province, located in the Upper Thracian Lowlands at the foot of the Western Rhodopes. It takes its name from the many caves found in the vicinity. The town is the administrative centre of the homonymous Peshtera Municipality...

 - 27 July 1960) was a Bulgaria

Bulgaria

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n politician who went on to serve as Prime Minister.

Kyoseivanov came to power on 23 November 1935 after a period in which the country had had three Prime Ministers in quick succession. He went on to become the longest-serving PM since Andrey Lyapchev and throughout his reign he also held the post of Foreign Minister. The government oversaw the trials of the instigators of the 1934 military coup and also concluded pacts with Yugoslavia

Yugoslavia

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 and Greece

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 as Nazi Germany

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 undertook a policy of economic isolation of the Balkans

Balkans

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. His government also oversaw a policy of rearmament

Rearmament

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 after a treaty concluded with Ioannis Metaxas

Ioannis Metaxas

Ioannis Metaxas was a Greek general, politician, and dictator, serving as Prime Minister of Greece from 1936 until his death in 1941...

 overturned the military clauses of the Treaty of Neuilly-sur-Seine and the Treaty of Lausanne

Treaty of Lausanne

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. Despite this Kyoseivanov's government was seen as little more than a puppet of Tsar Boris

Boris III of Bulgaria

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and, although it lasted until 1940, achieved little other than allowing the Tsar to effectively govern as a dictator.