Amid talk in Bulgaria of reintroducing compulsory military service, a new photo exhibition exposes the "labor battalions" used by the communist authorities, in part, to control the country's ...

Some brave souls even scale the tower behind the main building, which is emblazoned with a red star, once rumored to be made of ruby (it's not).

Forty years ago, the communist authorities in Bulgaria began a brutal repression of the country's ethnic Turkish community.

There's an abandoned monument in Bulgaria filled with communist propaganda. Construction cost the equivalent of $35 million today. Earlier this year, a group of adventurers visited the monument ...

An exhibition in Sofia of Garo Keshishian's black-and-white photos of communist-era compulsory labour units delves into a little-remembered aspect of Bulgaria's repressive past. A rarely mentioned ...