I have an affinity for Bulgaria — so overlooked and underappreciated … and yet so charming in a Slavic way. In my student days I spent lots of time exploring Bulgaria and its capital city Sofia: ...

Every day for the past 20 years, Lyudmil Kutev has lumbered three stories down the crumbling concrete steps of his Sofia apartment, descended into a basement Cold War bunker packed floor to ceiling ...

If fawning fidelity still counts for anything among Communists, Bulgaria must be Nikita Khrushchev’s favorite satellite. Even East Germany, which usually can toady just as well as Bulgaria, has caused ...

Some of the young Bulgarians forced home by the pandemic are staying for good – tempted by vastly improved job offers and a less stressful life. When COVID-19 struck Europe, hundreds of thousands of ...

Shortly after Russian President Vladimir Putin launched his country's unprovoked invasion of Ukraine on February 24, debate heated up in the European Union over how and when to end the bloc's ...

A British family who moved to Bulgaria and bought an abandoned £7k home say not everyone "has what it takes" to move - warning of visa scams, the harsh -30 dereee winters, and difficulty learning the ...

With their mock-up of prefabricated tower blocks currently on display at a Bulgarian gallery, two twentysomething artists are inviting the Bulgarian public to "come home" and reflect on their ...

Tiny Bulgaria could serve as a model for cooperation between Catholic and Orthodox churches. But it also shows how bigger forces can create problems. The Roman Catholic community in Bulgaria is small ...

On Bulgaria’s Riviera, the season had been rather dazzling. At Varna, most fashionable of the Black Sea resorts, the crowning event was a bathing-beauty contest. A happy photograph of the winner and ...