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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

SOFIA -- At the end of I See Red People, a 2018 documentary that follows a young Bulgarian woman's search into her family's communist past, the mother of the filmmaker reprimands her daughter: "My ...

It’s actually the Buzludzha Monument, an iconic symbol of the communist world that has sadly been forgotten about and left to crumble. Located approximately 200 kilometres from the capital city of ...

An enormous monument to the Communist Party in Bulgaria is now a decrepit ruin. The country is wrestling with how to deal with a symbol of an unwanted and, in many ways, deeply ugly past. By Andrew ...

How the Domuschiev brothers raised in Communist-era Bulgaria went from selling shoes to controlling a $4.2 billion empire ranging from animal health and shipping to real estate and soccer. Last year, ...