Nadya Cholakova is a chief department "Investigations" in one of the most circulated Bulgarian newspapers - "168 hours" weekly. She is a leading investigational journalist, specialized in criminal investigations, one of the best experts who well know the criminal contingent and force groups in Bulgaria. Ms. Cholakova is popular also with hers political interviews with Bulgarian politicians and businessmen.

Stanimir Vaglenov, an investigational journalist with high responsibility with department "Opinions, analyses, letters" in "24 hours" daily, the second by circulation Bulgarian daily newspaper. He is occupied with investigations since 8 years, author of around 50 bigger journalistic investigations in different spheres (http://oocities.com/svaglenov), mostly dedicated to business themes.

Ivanna Tzvetkovich, journalist with "Blitz" newspaper, the most circulated and authoritative daily in Serbia and Monte Negro. As a political reporter she monitored the work of the Prime Minister Zoran Djindjich till his assassination. Ms. Tzvetkovich is among the most informed journalist in Serbia concerning the secrets of the local political elite, its connections with Zemun clan and other structures of the organized criminality.

Manuela Preoteasa, leading journalist from "Capital" - Romanian weekly specialized in economical investigations and internet issues. She is an excellent connoisseur of the Romanian political elite and its connections with business circles as well as with the organized criminality.

Slobodan Sodich, an investigational journalist from "Dnevnik" newspaper - the most popular and the most authoritative daily newspapers in Macedonia. He is one of the best investigational journalists in Macedonia who possesses knowledge both of the local business, the political elite and the organized criminality.

Huge part of the problems the civil society faces in Bulgaria particularly and the Balkans as a whole is based on the bad government. To a certain extent it is due to a lack of an experience in working in a new market conditions during transformation of the totalitarian society to a civil one. The continued connection which is going deeper and deeper between the political elites and business structures, which are indirectly or directly connected with the organized criminality, remains one of the basic problems though. This involvement leads to a vicious circle which seems bullet-proofed: economical groups "invest" money with suspicious character choosing of an exact candidates as for the Balkan parliaments as for the local parliaments in different settlements. These way mafia representatives become members of the parliament, mayors and municipal advisers. After they enter the power they are obliged to give back the favor to the economical structures for the resources "invested" in them. Thus instead to serve equally in diligence all tax payers, administrators at national and local level put through the interests of a particular businessmen. The unfair competition helps to the politicians and businessmen to pile up big financial resources which "to invest" in the next elections. Thus from one side the government becomes oligarchic by its character and on the other side the organized criminality gets the opportunity to push in the dirty money in legal business structures, at that with the support of the official authorities. A quality government can not be assured from such involvement between politics and mafia. To this vicious circle an end should be putted. In Bulgaria these facts are a public secret, often it is written and spoken for them, but in pure publicism point of view episodically and without concrete character. Most of the journalistic investigations as far as they exist are one-sided, not profound enough and most frequently belated. That is why we consider that is an end time something to be done, something entirely different in this sphere. We want to reveal the vicious system coalescence between mafia and politics in several Balkan countries.