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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.