The Construction Corps built much of Bulgaria's 20th-century infrastructure but was also used during the communist era to punish opponents of the regime and maintain control over ethnic minorities ...

Waves of departures for jobs abroad and a low birth rate have emptied Bulgaria’s villages. The social fabric is at stake ...

Forty years ago, the communist authorities in Bulgaria began a brutal repression of the country's ethnic Turkish community.

But the wartime leader is a favorite of Bulgaria’s far right and those who admire the country’s pre-communist governments, and his profile has only risen in recent years as Bulgaria ...

An exhibition in Sofia of Garo Keshishian's black-and-white photos of communist-era compulsory labour units delves into a little-remembered aspect of Bulgaria's repressive past. A rarely mentioned ...

The communist repressions extended beyond the courtroom. In the months following the coup of September 9, 1944—when Soviet forces occupied Bulgaria —thousands were executed, and tens of ...

Bulgaria's parliament on Thursday voted to approve a conservative-led coalition government, formed in a bid to end the EU nation's worst political turmoil since the end of communism. The poor ...

With wreath-laying ceremonies and statements, various Bulgarian political leaders and members of the public marked February 1, the day of homage to the victims of the communist regime. On February ...

After the fall of communism, the liberalisation of the radio started slower than that of the print media market. Nowadays the radio landscape is dominated by an extremely high number of private radio ...

Bulgaria commemorates the victims of the communist regime marking the anniversary of the mass executions carried out in 1945 b ...