Bulgaria

Storks have always fascinated humans, for several reasons. The Number of storks in Germany has been increasing for a while. In Brandenburg province, it seems to be falling now.

Animal Rescue Sofia runs a large dog kennel in Bulgaria. The organization accepts responsibility for stray dogs, abused, abandoned and ill ones, puppies and…

Several Bulgarian women's choirs around the famous project 'Mystery of the Bulgarian Voices' have fascinated the world for decades. It all started long before…

Milcho Leviev is a master musician famous for his work in both classical music and Jazz. The 82-year-old Bulgarian has worked with many American Jazz legends and ran bands of his own. Similar to his Cuban colleague Arturo Sandoval, he escaped when the communists put him under pressure.

Bulgaria is a small Balkan country in the very south-east of Europe. While it offers beautiful landscapes and tourism magnets, it fails many of its own…

Four years ago, when the refugee crisis hit Europe, The Berlin Spectator's Imanuel Marcus returned to Croatia for a radio news agency, 20 years after he had…

The Berlin Wall, which fell thirty years ago in November, was a symbol for the entire Iron Curtain between the area of the Warsaw Pact and the West during the Cold War. Back then, there were GDR citizens who thought fleeing to the West via Bulgaria was easier. Many of them were killed trying.

Europe, the old continent has lots of tiny countries. Thanks to the European Union, many of them feel like one and the same country, at least sort of. Because…

One protester said the LGBTI community in Sofia needed this kind of solidarity. In addition, the rally in Berlin was supposed to raise awareness. In Western…

Only 380 kilometers (236 miles) need to be covered, but the trip takes six hours. On many stretches the train will be struggling along at walking speed because the ancient tracks built during the times of communist Bulgaria do not support more. On the more modern stretches, the engine driver will try to make up for it.