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 ...

SOFIA, Bulgaria (AP) — 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 seen as a ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Following years of heated debates, authorities in Bulgaria began dismantling a monument to the army of the Soviet Union that ...

Bulgaria has taken issue with an upcoming World War II exhibition the Russian Embassy is organizing in Sofia dedicated to "75 years of the liberation of Eastern Europe from Nazism," saying instead the ...

It is recalled that the prototype of the monument was Red Army soldier Alexey Skurlatov, a native of Altai, a holder of several frontline excellence awards, who in 1944 participated in the restoration ...

Soviet communism remains very uncool in countries that formerly lived under it, which might explain why some very creative and patient graffiti artists have been repeatedly defacing a Soviet Army ...

During his tenure from June 2023 to April 2024, Tagarev coordinated one of the most extensive packages of military aid for Ukraine, including the transfer of old Soviet weapons. Currently, Bulgaria is ...

(AP) -- A pill developed in Bulgaria during the Soviet era shows promise for helping millions of smokers cheaply and safely kick the habit, the first big study of it shows. It could become a new ...

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 ...