Tag Archives: State Security

Statue of Memory

Feb 23rd, 2015

Statue of Memory

Bulgaria commemorates a murdered dissident — and takes a symbolic step toward reckoning with its communist past.

Bulgaria’s Unholy Alliances

Mar 7th, 2013

Bulgaria’s Unholy Alliances

By MATTHEW BRUNWASSER SOFIA — His enthronement as patriarch of Bulgaria, spiritual leader of millions of Orthodox believers here, was supposed to stir pride and moral togetherness in an impoverished country confronting a vacuum in political leadership and widespread economic pain. Instead, the installation of His Holiness Neofit last month, in a ceremony replete with byzantine splendor, served as one more reminder that Bulgaria had never really thrown off the inheritance of 40 years of rigid Communist rule and all the duplicitous dealings that went with it.