The boardwalk along the Danube in Vidin, a city in a region of Bulgaria that is experiencing rapid depopulation. (Jodi Hilton / For The Times) Ivan Mladenov has watched life steadily drain out of the ...

Agriculture has always been very important for the Bulgarian economy, but during the socialist period there was considerable progress made in the diversification of employment opportunities in rural ...

The fastest developing regions in this respect are central and northern Bulgaria, the Rhodope mountains and the region of Blagoevgrad. Borislav Borisov, chairperson of the Association of Bulgarian ...

This book explores the multiple and combined effects of globalization on urban and rural communities, providing case studies from postsocialist Bulgaria. As globalization has been studied largely in ...

There has been an increasing interest in the rural tourism in the countries from Eastern Europe, according to the Secretary-General of the World Tourism Organization Francesco Frangialli. Bulgaria's ...

As Bulgarians prepare to vote for a new government on Sunday, residents in rural parts of the country have become disillusioned, and many don't plan to vote at all. In the rural town of Lisitsite, in ...

Friends pay tribute to Jan Bennett, who was killed just yards from the house she recently moved to in rural Bulgaria Jan Bennett, right, who has been murdered in Bulgaria, with her friend Karin Dalbak ...

Ivan Mladenov has watched life steadily drain out of the Bulgarian countryside. In the 1960s, his village, Skomlya, was a small but bustling community of more than 200 people, well placed near a river ...