U.S. Army healthcare specialists treated about 90 children, adults and senior in the small Bulgarian town of Sungurlare Sept. 1 and 2, delivering free care. Members of the 212th CSH provided the ...

referenced the apparently forgotten 1300 Years of Bulgaria monument and told RFE/RL, “I’m afraid the Monument to the Soviet Army will share the same fate.” ...

The Bulgarian government has begun demolishing the iconic Soviet Army monument that has dominated much of the landscape in the centre of the Bulgarian capital, Sofia, for nearly 70 years ...

3 The Monument To The Soviet Army was installed in 1954, a decade after the Red Army marched into Bulgaria unopposed after the country declared its neutrality following years of alignment with ...

The monument was erected in 1954 to commemorate the 10th anniversary of Soviet forces entering Bulgaria, which had been allied with Nazi Germany in World War II. Their arrival in 1944 marked the ...

But plans to dismantle the monument have long been thwarted by the Russian Embassy and Bulgarian Russophiles, who emphasised the Red Army's fight against Nazism. Russian Foreign Ministry ...