Bulgaria Closes Cold War Poison Umbrella Murder Case Robert Siegel talks with Diana Ivanova, a Bulgarian documentary filmmaker and former reporter for Radio Free Europe, about one of the Cold War ...

They burned a Russian flag and poured ... period, when Bulgaria was a loyal satellite state of the Soviet Union. The public is divided, however, on the Ukraine war, with a recent Globsec report ...

Bulgaria's president inaugurated a statue of dissident Georgy Markov Tuesday in a rare official commemoration of the victim of the infamous Cold War "umbrella killing" in London in 1978. "The words of ...

A monument to the Soviet army in Sofia, Bulgaria, was painted with the colors ... the Soviet Union’s staunchest allies during the Cold War. It is still dependent on Moscow for more than three ...

Wander through central Sofia today and you’ll see older shoppers in flappy Russian ushanka caps and post-Cold War cool kids crouching to buy Bulgarian chocolates, bold-red wines from the ...

SOFIA, BulgariaSOFIA, Bulgaria — The defector from communist Bulgaria was jabbed in the thigh with a poisoned umbrella tip in one of the most sensational assassinations of the Cold War.

And now it's quite possible that no one ever will. Bulgaria's chief prosecutor said Thursday that his office is officially closing the Cold War cold case, saying the statute of limitations has run ...

Gift shops/galleries Wander through central Sofia today and you’ll see elderly shoppers in flappy Russian ushanka caps and post-Cold War cool kids crouching to buy Bulgarian chocolates ...