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 ...

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 ...

Bulgaria will be ready with its rural areas development program by the end of March, Agriculture Minister Nihat Kabil said. He explained that the plan for the program will be sent to the European ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

A British family “escaped” the UK for Bulgaria for their “dream” home and are now living mortgage free after buying an abandoned house for just £7k. Laura Phoenix, 33, and her husband Anthony, 32, ...

Supporters cite growth and stability, while poorer communities fear rising costs and declining purchasing power.

A Roma girl poses during an open-air 'bride market' in the central village of Mogila, on March 12. The "bride market" -- held four times a year on various religious holidays during the spring and ...