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

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

As Bulgaria adopts the euro, small settlements lacking post offices, ATMs, and other essential services face a particularly difficult transition. One such place is the village of Emen in Veliko ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

In southern Bulgaria, in the village of Tyurkmen, many brick houses sit empty. Their tile roofs are falling in. Gergana Daskalova, an ecologist who spent summers here with her grandparents as a young ...

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 ...