In the mountain villages of Smochevo and Pastra, part of Rila municipality, residents are anticipating difficulties in ...

Bulgaria's villages are not ready for the country's EU Accession, Borislav Borissov, head of the Bulgarian Villages' Association has announced. In a survey taken last week, 79% of the 800 village ...

In Bilyana Nikolova's grocery store in Chuprene, a village in northwestern Bulgaria, prices are now displayed in levs and ...

This book explores the multiple and combined effects of globalization on urban and rural communities, providing case studies from postsocialist Bulgaria. As globalization has been studied largely in ...

RUDNIK There may not be many reasons for visitors to stray to Rudnik, a tiny village in southeast Bulgaria, but once there they could be forgiven if they think they're seeing double. This otherwise ...

A Syrian child peers over a fence at a refugee camp in Harmanli, 280 km east of Sofia, on Dec. 9, 2013. According to UNHCR, Bulgaria hosts 8,800 asylum seekers and refugees, two-thirds of them Syrians ...

Gale-force winds and heavy rain and snow hit large parts of Bulgaria on Sunday, claiming the lives of two people and causing severe damage and disrupting power supply in towns and villages, officials ...

Authorities reported two active fronts of the blaze, with three villages evacuated and significant damage in sparsely populated border areas. The village of Rani Lug was hit hardest, with half of the ...

This otherwise rather unremarkable miners' village of around 5,000 inhabitants gives new meaning to the term “twin town”, with its unusually high -- and so far inexplicable -- twin population. The ...