Dilyana Teoharova is a correspondent for RFE/RL's Bulgarian Service. She is a journalism graduate from Sofia University.
Recent attacks on foreigners, many of them university students, in Bulgaria have sparked concerns over rising xenophobia. Disinformation on social media falsely claiming that Bulgaria could soon face a wave of illegal migration has increased racial tensions.
Parts of statues from a massive and contentious communist-era monument in Sofia have been located outside a warehouse in a village near the Bulgarian capital. The statues were removed from the Monument to the Soviet Army.
Reaction was mixed on the streets of the Bulgarian capital, Sofia, as a contentious monument to the Red Army was cut into pieces this week.
Despite protests, officials in the Bulgarian capital, Sofia, vow to press ahead with plans to dismantle and move the capital's Monument to the Soviet Army.
North Macedonia annoys Bulgaria and the EU's enlargement commissioner by turning away a Bulgarian member of the European Parliament at the border in what looks to analysts like a "reckless" stand against the symbols of a long-running feud over history and nationality.
Kyiv-born classical pianist Valentina Lisitsa appeared in a Russian propaganda video last year "playing for the people" in occupied Mariupol. Despite seeing her concerts canceled elsewhere, Sofia will host her twice in April.
Ivan Kalchev is a candidate in Bulgaria's upcoming snap parliamentary elections. But instead of wooing voters, Kalchev is in Ukraine, fighting in Kyiv's counteroffensive against invading Russian forces.
In 2018, a Bulgarian woman who grew up in France made a documentary about her family's communist past and her shock at discovering that her mother was a secret police informer. Now, her mother, who had misgivings about her daughter's film, has told her own side of the story.
A police officer in Bulgaria has established a group to protect the rights of LGBT officers, a first in the largely conservative Balkan country. While officers he works with have largely shunned him, others across the country have reached out to find out more.
