Since 2011, February 1 has been marked in Bulgaria as a Day of Gratitude and Homage to the Victims of the Communist Regime, as the largest single spate of executions in Bulgarian history was carried ...

Bulgaria, situated in the eastern Balkans, has been undergoing a slow and painful transition to a market economy since the end of Communist rule. A predominantly Slavonic-speaking, Orthodox ...

The villages of Yablanovo and Filaretovo will today hold a memorial ceremony for the victims of the forced renaming of Bulgarian Turks during the so-called "revival process" a campaign of forced ...

Bulgaria's parliament on Thursday formally approved a coalition government led by the centre-right GERB party, finally installing an administration nearly three months after elections resulted in ...

Bulgarian lawmakers voted in a new prime minister and cabinet Thursday after more than two months of negotiations. Rosen Zhelyazkov from the center-right GERB party was selected as Bulgaria’s prime ...

Democratic California Gov. Gavin Newsom will temporarily raise the American Flag at the state Capitol to full height on Inauguration Day next week, joining a handful of GOP governors and ...

SOFIA, Jan 16 (Reuters) - Bulgaria's parliament approved on Thursday a cabinet led by Rosen Zhelyazkov, a former parliament speaker, ending months of negotiations on the formation of a coalition ...

Several Republican governors across the U.S. are ordering state flags, which are currently being flown at half-staff following President Jimmy Carter’s death, to be raised to acknowledge Preside ...

With less than a week until Inauguration Day, President-elect Trump got his wish for flags to be raised next Monday. American flags on public and government buildings are supposed to be flying at ...

GOP governors of at least eight states ordered flags to be flown at full-staff on President-elect Trump’s Inauguration Day, bucking tradition by raising flags before the end of a customary 30 ...

Bulgaria’s president on Wednesday tasked the main centre-right party with forming a government, nearly three months after elections resulted in a deeply divided parliament. The Citizens for ...