Most also suffer the lingering pain of divided families, the result of longtime Communist dictator Todor Zhivkov’s heavy-handed attempts at forced ethnic assimilation, which prompted nearly one- ...

EXCLUSIVE — Political instability is nothing new for Bulgaria since the collapse of Todor Zhivkov’s Communist regime in 1989. That being said, the country’s government has been quite ...

It was a portrait of communist dictator Todor Zhivkov, who ruled Bulgaria, 1954 to 1989. The sign under the picture reads: "Todor Zhivkov used to say: 'All this that we have built [under my ...

But the Communist leadership here, under longtime leader Todor Zhivkov, makes it clear that any changes must conform ”with the principles of Marxism- Leninism and our Communist ideals.” ...

He later became prime minister under communist dictator Todor Zhivkov. In 1999 the military prosecutor for the Sofia district closed an investigation into those believed responsible for the ...

7, the birthday of Bulgarian Communist leader Todor Zhivkov. “The murder was supposed to serve as some sort of a gift to Zhivkov,” the Sofia online news agency Novinite.com commented Thursday ...

It contains items from the period between the conquest of Bulgaria by the Red Army in 1944 and the end of the Todor Zhivkov regime in 1989, with a focus on products available in Bulgaria during ...

Bulgaria’s Todor Zhivkov may still toady to the Kremlin’s foreign-policy wishes (see above), but when it comes to internal matters, he is as reform-minded as any other Eastern European.

This is what I did when I was 17. My pals and I called Todor Zhivkov, head of state of the People’s Republic of Bulgaria. We began calling Zhivkov at about 9 p.m. on a Friday, which was roughly ...

His broadcasts for RFE included a series of satirical programmes called Personal Meetings with Todor Zhivkov. Zhivkov was the Bulgarian leader and not a man to upset. In 1977, he signed an order ...