On Wednesday, July 27, 1955, El Al Flight 402 was cruising at around 18,000 feet over the Balkans when two Bulgarian MiG-15 fighter jets rose to intercept it. The Lockheed Constellation, carrying 51 ...

SOFIA -- A new book in Bulgaria paints a picture of criminality during the communist era as being far worse than Bulgarians knew at the time. In From Thefts To Murders. Criminal Offenses In Bulgaria ...

SOFIA -- The government's recommendation to give the highest state award to Georgi Yordanov, a former culture minister closely associated with the communist regime of Todor Zhivkov, has sparked ...

An exhibition of the work of two Turkish photographers documents a dark chapter of Bulgaria’s history – the forced assimilation and deportation of its ethnic Turkish minority. The Bulgarian Communist ...

KORNITSA, Bulgaria (AP) – Ibrahim Byalk has had a bullet stuck in his arm for nearly four decades. It adds to the painful memories of communist repression in this quiet village in southern Bulgaria.

Perched high in Bulgaria's Balkan Mountains, the Buzludzha Monument looks like a giant concrete spacecraft stranded on a remote peak. Part political monument and part modern ruin, the extraordinary ...

The Victims of Communism Museum (VOC) Tuesday unveiled a new pop-up exhibit entitled, “Belene–A Bulgarian Resistance Story.” This effort was spearheaded by the Sofia Platform Foundation with support ...

SOFIA, Bulgaria (AP) — Vigils in memory of thousands of victims of the communist regime have been held across Bulgaria. The country’s vice president, Margarita Popova, on Friday joined relatives of ...

Bulgaria’s first democratically elected president talks about the changes that transpired in Bulgaria after the fall of the Berlin Wall. The Berlin Wall, a symbol of division between Eastern and ...

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 ...