Officially named the House-Monument of the Bulgarian Communist Party, but better known as the “Buzludzha Monument,” it’s been attracting urban explorers from around the world since the mid ...

The defector from communist Bulgaria was killed at a London bus stop, jabbed in the thigh with a poisoned umbrella tip in one of the most sensational assassinations of the Cold War.

Bulgarian communist leader Todor Zhivkov (right) embraces Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev in Sofia, Bulgaria, on March 6, 1968. In 1945, for example, there were 509 murders in Bulgaria -- excluding ...

In 1970s and 80s, the Communist Party was strong in Bulgaria. In order to honor the movement's leaders, as well as to create a space for meetings and rallies, the government built a massive ...

Under the control of the Bulgarian Communist Party, a close ally of the U.S.S.R. from 1945 to 1989, the nation was heavily influenced by the Russians.

Communist Party and intelligence service archives have revealed that Yordanov was involved in Politburo discussions on how to deport the Bulgarian Turks in 1989.

Reading about this instance of intrigue in post-communist Bulgaria, takes me back to an inconsequential, but perhaps revealing, experience of my own during the waning years of the Cold War.

NOVA MAHALA, Bulgaria — Sabrie Balaktcha, 80, is poor, angry and almost out of hope. Her two sons living here are unemployed. A third fled to Turkey more than a decade ago to escape a Communist ...

Three hours from Sofia, in the heart of the Balkan Mountains, a potholed road twists its way up Mount Buzludzha, leading to “Bulgaria’s UFO.” Rising from the top of the hill, this perplexing ...