North Macedonia and Bulgaria are intensifying diplomatic activities over a possible breakthrough in their history dispute that would allow North Macedonia to open EU accession talks. Bulgarian ...
Recent vandalism of a famous column to the Red Army in central Sofia is the latest in a string of symbolic anti-Kremlin attacks on the memorial. 1 This damage to the base of the Monument to the Soviet ...
After the opening of Bulgarian cultural clubs provoked protests in North Macedonia earlier this year, a Macedonian cultural club has opened in Bulgaria – and is sparking similar tension among locals.
(JTA) — Bulgaria’s ambassador to Israel did not attend a conference on Bulgarian Holocaust history last week, in a move that organizers said displays her government’s attempts to whitewash that ...
In Rick Steves’ Sept. 4 column on Bulgaria, he states that the country barred the deportation of approximately 50,000 Bulgarian Jews to the Nazi death camps. While it is true, it is not the full story ...
What have the Romans ever done for us?” quipped my partner, Ed, as we stood on the main street of Nicopolis ad Istrum, formerly a Roman town in Bulgaria that is now a glorious assemblage of ruins.
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 ...