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 crumble since the totalitarian regime ...

Growing up in communist Bulgaria adoring football, he dreamed of changing his name to … Manchester United. To claim the name ...

In the heart of the Balkans, Yugoslavia united many Slavic nations — but not Bulgaria. Geography, politics, and identity kept ...

Sitting in his caravan in downtown Sofia, Alexander Balkanski, a former acrobat and trapeze artist and the founder of Bulgaria's largest circus, swings between hope and despair as he counts the ...

A ride on the comfortable Sofia-Istanbul Express includes a dramatic border crossing in the middle of the night.

Russian spies implicated in a Cold War poisoned umbrella murder escaped justice after British officials called for the case to be dropped, declassified files reveal. Georgi Markov was waiting at a bus ...

Poland’s emergence as a regional power has not been without its challenges, but the country now enjoys an enviable confidence among international investors ...

Written by Madeline Potter, a scholar of 19th century Gothic literature, the new book recounts how members of the group long ...

On 16 Oct 1962, Kennedy’s NSA walked into the White House with ‘proof’ of Soviet missile deployment in Cuba. What followed ...

Bulgaria blasts Pellegrini, church and private schools rise up, and the past is literally dismantled in Bratislava. Here’s ...