The fall of the Berlin Wall rocked Bulgaria in 1989, so much so that the small Balkan republic is still recovering from a kind of post-traumatic stress disorder. While Germans celebrate the 20th ...

In May 1989, Bulgaria witnessed something unprecedented in its communist era: massive protests that did not unfold in the capital, Sofia, but in villages and towns scattered across the country, writes ...

At the very moment when the Cold War’s most famed symbol – the Berlin Wall – was literally being torn down, Bulgaria’s iron-fisted leader for thirty-five years, Todor Zhivkov, resigned from power on ...

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 ...