The boardwalk along the Danube in Vidin, a city in a region of Bulgaria that is experiencing rapid depopulation. (Jodi Hilton / For The Times) Ivan Mladenov has watched life steadily drain out of the ...

The fastest developing regions in this respect are central and northern Bulgaria, the Rhodope mountains and the region of Blagoevgrad. Borislav Borisov, chairperson of the Association of Bulgarian ...

This book explores the multiple and combined effects of globalization on urban and rural communities, providing case studies from postsocialist Bulgaria. As globalization has been studied largely in ...

Agriculture has always been very important for the Bulgarian economy, but during the socialist period there was considerable progress made in the diversification of employment opportunities in rural ...

There has been an increasing interest in the rural tourism in the countries from Eastern Europe, according to the Secretary-General of the World Tourism Organization Francesco Frangialli. Bulgaria's ...

As Bulgarians prepare to vote for a new government on Sunday, residents in rural parts of the country have become disillusioned, and many don't plan to vote at all. In the rural town of Lisitsite, in ...

BAKU, Azerbaijan, August 15. Deputy Minister of Agriculture and Food of Bulgaria, Lozana Vassileva, and the Executive Director of the State Fund “Agriculture,” Iva Ivanova, held a working meeting at ...

Bulgaria, Latvia and Greece are the countries in the EU with the lowest number of nurses per 100,000 population. [Shutterstock/Evgeniya Sheydt] The uneven distribution of health care personnel is ...

Finding better-paid employment abroad is a common dream for medical students in Bulgaria. But Sheip Panev is driven by a challenge much closer to home, as Rayna Breuer reports. Grandma Milka lives in ...