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.

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 ...

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 ...

The chests full of French yarn, a German tape recorder, and other objects speak to a time when sourcing Western products from behind the Iron Curtain required a mix of immense opportunity and effort.

Amid talk in Bulgaria of reintroducing compulsory military service, a new photo exhibition exposes the "labor battalions" used by the communist authorities, in part, to control the country's ...

September 9 remains one of the most controversial and tragic dates in Bulgarian history. The 1944 coup d’état, often described as the greatest national catastrophe of the 20th century, marked the ...

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 ...

BUZLUDZHA PEAK, Bulgaria (Reuters) - Perched atop a mountain peak in central Bulgaria, a giant UFO-like concrete monument, built to glorify the Balkan country's communist rule, has been left to ...

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 ...

Bulgaria’s President Rumen Radev, who has previously refrained from criticism of the country’s former Communist system, paid his respects at a memorial to the victims of the regime for the first time.

On Saturday morning, Pope Benedict met with bishops from the formerly communist country of Bulgaria, who he encouraged to be staunch witnesses to Christ in all areas of public life--particularly those ...