SOFIA -- It's hard to miss the giant, 11-meter-tall statue that towers above Plovdiv, standing proud on top of the Bulgarian city's second-highest hill. Named Alyosha, a generic diminutive used to ...

SOFIA, BulgariaSOFIA, Bulgaria — Bulgaria on Wednesday began dismantling a monument to the army of the Soviet Union that dominated the skyline of the capital, Sofia, for nearly 70 years and was widely ...

Bulgaria has had to walk a fine line, trying to covertly support Ukraine without provoking Russia. The Balkan state has been historically influenced by Moscow. Opinions on Ukraine are split among its ...

A demonstration held on March 9 indicates that a council vote to remove a controversial memorial to Red Army soldiers in Sofia may be easier said than done. 1 These protesters gathered around Sofia’s ...

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The EU is betting billions of euros that the legacy of Bulgaria and Romania as Soviet-era ammunition powerhouses can be ...

The Bulgarian army has begun the process of retiring the long-serving Soviet Makarov pistol, which has been in service since 1951, and will replace it with the modern 9 mm Springfield Armory Echelon 4 ...

SOFIA, Bulgaria (AP) — Following years of heated debates, authorities in Bulgaria began to dismantle a monument of the Soviet army that has dominated the skyline of the capital city of Sofia, and has ...