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 ...

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 ...

Today’s parliamentary sitting (January 30) opened with declarations marking the Day of Remembrance and Respect for the Victims of the ...

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 ...

Buzludzha, Bulgaria, is an abandoned communist monument built in the 1980s in the Central Balkan mountains. Once a symbol of a hopeful communist future, it attracted over 3 million visitors before the ...

Bulgaria has one of the oldest traditions of anti-fascist struggle in Europe, dating back to the 1920s. The self-serving narratives of contemporary political forces have obscured this rich heritage.

Philip Dimitrov, the former prime minister of Bulgaria, asserted that Communism continues to be a threat at a lecture in Kaufman Auditorium on Friday. “To me, the threat of Communism is still there.

Faded Communist Party signs, chipped kitchenware, and political speeches on a dusty record player are just a few of the items on display at Evgeni Mladenov's newly opened communism museum in the ...

MOMCHILGRAD, Bulgaria -- Sevginar Mahmud remembers December 26, 1984, as if it were yesterday. She remembers her friend being hit by a bullet, the agonized cries of her neighbors dying in a roadside ...

In the March days of 1917 the Russian proletariat crushed with a crushing blow the centuries-old bloody monarchism of Tsarist Russia. Before the November days of the collapsing dynasty, the Russian ...

Grassroots exhibitions popping up in Hungary, Romania, Bulgaria, Croatia and Poland provide a window into ordinary lives during the communist era Alice Popovici - Freelance writer Visitors to the Red ...