Bulgaria is still the only European country without a memorial to the victims of totalitarian regimes. Attention was once again called to this shameful fact, like a long untreated ulcer on the body of our society, on 1 June, when hundreds of people..
“In Bulgaria there are many other camps and prisons but Belene has come to be regarded as a synonym of communist repression and communist brutality,” said President Petar Stoyanov (1997-2002), addressing the people, including former camp inmates,..
Tsvetana Germanova, the last surviving woman who was repressed as a prisoner in the camps of Belene and Bosna, has passed away at the age of 95. Tsvetana Germanova was born on March 20, 1928 in the village of Leskovets, Pernik region...
"Ukraine is still keen to buy the equipment for Bulgaria's second nuclear power plant - Belene - and is ready to pay the price we are asking," Energy Minister Rumen Radev said during an inspection of the construction of Bulgaria's gas link with Serbia...
In Athens, during the meeting on the Western Balkans, Bulgaria’s Prime Minister Nikolay Denkov talked to the President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky. Connectivity in the Balkans to be discussed at a meeting in Sofia in October Nikolay Denkov..
Activists and supporters of the nationalist party Vazrazhdane organized a protest near Bulgarene village in Pleven region, closing off traffic along the Sofia-Ruse road. The protesters are saying the reactors intended for the Belene NPP project must..
“Constructiing units 7 and 8 of the Kozloduy Nuclear Power Plant is now part of the cabinet’s plans,” said PM Nikolay Denkov during a live stream on Facebook from the Council of Ministers , during which he answered questions by journalists and..
We have submitted a proposal in order to try to sell the Russian nuclear equipment from the site at the Belene NPP to Ukraine, Democratic Bulgaria MP Ivaylo Mirchev wrote on Facebook. An explicit requirement is that the price should..
The annual initiative commemorating the victims of the biggest concentration camp for the political opponents of the Bulgarian Communist Party in Bulgaria, is to take place at 12 noon today on the spot where the former concentration camp Belene stood..
Belene is a small town on the Bulgarian bank of the Danube, associated by most Bulgarians with the concentration camp on the island of Persin , where without trial or sentence, people labeled as enemies of the communist regime were..
