SOFIA -- It's hard to miss the giant, 11-meter-tall statue that towers above Plovdiv, standing proud on top of the Bulgarian city's second-highest hill. Named Alyosha, a generic diminutive used to ...

Bulgaria has had to walk a fine line, trying to covertly support Ukraine without provoking Russia. The Balkan state has been historically influenced by Moscow. Opinions on Ukraine are split among its ...

SOFIA, BulgariaSOFIA, Bulgaria — Bulgaria on Wednesday began dismantling a monument to the army of the Soviet Union that dominated the skyline of the capital, Sofia, for nearly 70 years and was widely ...

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 ...

In the latest indignity suffered by Soviet-era monuments in Bulgaria, unknown artists Saturday transformed a huge sculpture into a colossal version of a traditional lucky charm in the eastern European ...

On Nov. 7, 1944, that convergence produced the only acknowledged direct combat between American and Soviet forces in World ...

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SOFIA, Bulgaria (AP) — Following years of heated debates, authorities in Bulgaria began to dismantle a monument of the Soviet army that has dominated the skyline of the capital city of Sofia, and has ...