Bulgaria

When you get to Burgas, it is time to put on your bikini. Here, you can hop into the Black Sea, but you might smell the big oil refinery at night. Because of Corona and the war in Ukraine, those big cruise ships are staying away these days.

Sofia is one of the oldest cities of the continent. Hardly any capital offers the kind of history the Bulgarian capital does, or the number of severe problems.…

Bulgaria usually does not appear at the top of ranking lists, but rather at the very bottom. But when it is about air pollution, the opposite is the case. The…

In Germany, thousands of members of the large Bulgarian community headed to polling stations that were set up for them today. They might live hundreds of miles from their country of origin, but they wanted to take part in the presidential and parliamentary elections down there.

In communist times, the Bulgarian regime forced people to get vaccinated against all kinds of illnesses. With this strategy, it managed to get rid of diphtheria…

Victor Baruch, one of the 50,000 Bulgarian Jews who were saved from the Nazis, and the only Bulgarian to cover the Eichmann trial in Jerusalem, celebrates his…

The Berlin Wall was a symbol for the entire Iron Curtain between the area of the Soviet Bloc and the West during the Cold War. Back then, there were GDR citizens who thought fleeing to the West via Bulgaria would be easier. Many of them were killed trying.

Just a few miles from the Turkish border, in Bulgaria's Strandzha region, there is a lot to see, including necropolises built 4,000 years ago, an unspoiled…

Located exactly 1,630 kilometers (1,013 miles) from Berlin and 10,621 km (6,600 miles) from Hollywood, a huge film studio in Bulgaria offers everything crews…

In Berlin, some forty Bulgarian expatriates staged a protest against the Sofia government of Prime Minister Boiko Borrissov on Sunday. They also want the Germans to drop their support for him.