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 ...

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.

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 ...

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

A quarter century after the fall of communism in Bulgaria, dreams of prosperity have turned sour in the Balkan country, which is the poorest in the European Union.

One of the leaders of the Bulgarian Communist Party (BCP), Georgi Dimitrov, who defended the line of neutrality in June 1923, defined fascism as “the open terrorist dictatorship of the most ...

In 2018, a Bulgarian woman who grew up in France made a documentary about her family's communist past and her shock at discovering that her mother was a secret police informer. Now, her mother ...

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.

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 ...