SOFIA -- It's hard to miss the giant, 11-meter-tall statue that towers above Plovdiv, standing proud on top of the Bulgarian city's second-highest hill. Named Alyosha, a generic diminutive used to ...

SOFIA, Bulgaria (AP) — Bulgaria on Wednesday began dismantling a monument to the army of the Soviet Union that dominated the skyline of the capital, Sofia, for nearly 70 years and was widely seen as a ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Following years of heated debates, authorities in Bulgaria began dismantling a monument to the army of the Soviet Union that ...

A demonstration held on March 9 indicates that a council vote to remove a controversial memorial to Red Army soldiers in Sofia may be easier said than done. 1 These protesters gathered around Sofia’s ...

It is recalled that the prototype of the monument was Red Army soldier Alexey Skurlatov, a native of Altai, a holder of several frontline excellence awards, who in 1944 participated in the restoration ...

People look at the Mig-29 jet fighter preparing for take off during an open air show in the military air base of Graf Ignatievo, east of the Bulgarian capital Sofia, Friday, June, 1, 2007. (AP ...

Soviet communism remains very uncool in countries that formerly lived under it, which might explain why some very creative and patient graffiti artists have been repeatedly defacing a Soviet Army ...

SOFIA, Bulgaria (AP) — Following years of heated debates, authorities in Bulgaria began to dismantle a monument of the Soviet army that has dominated the skyline of the capital city of Sofia, and has ...