Years of Bulgarian-US Diplomatic Relations; 2002 - Honorary Member of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe in recognition of services rendered to the European cause. Personal life In September 2016 she is appointed as head of the Central European office of AJC - a position she stepped down from on 1 March 2017 for "personal reasons". On 28 February 2017, Poptodorova was briefly detained at the airport in Warsaw, allegedly for theft of cosmetics – a story that was spread by 90 Russian news outlets, some of which were then quoted in Bulgarian media. A court case was started in 2017, and was conditionally closed in October 2018, when a Polish court decided not to punish her and not to include her name in the criminal record. Elena Poptodorova is married and has one son. References External links Елена Поптодорова, personi.bg Official site of the Embassy of Bulgaria to the USA The Washington Diplomat Newspaper - Her Excellency Elena Borislavova Poptodorova Petrova Ambassadors of Bulgaria to the United States Bulgarian women ambassadors Bulgarian women in politics 1951 births Living people Diplomats from Sofia Sofia University alumni University of National and World Economy alumni Members of the National Assembly (Bulgaria) Politicians from Sofia