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A Maternal Melodrama Unfolds Around An Unusual Girl In 'Viktoria'

Edit National Public Radio 28 Apr 2016
But the baby's congenital defect makes great political capital for Bulgarian dictator Todor Zhivkov (Georgi Spasov), who elbows aside the girl's kindly but conformist father (Dimo Dimov) and commandeers her to be his pampered pet, turning her into a helium-voiced, attention-seeking bully as she grows up. When Zhivkov himself is shoved aside by the ......

Moscow Picks Bulgarian Communist ex-Official Heads TV at Black Sea Resort

Edit Topix 22 Apr 2016
Stanka Shopova , a close affiliate to Bulgaria's late Communist ruler Todor Zhivkov , is to run a Russian TV station that Moscow is launching at a Black Sea resort in the country, local media report. Located some 25 km south of the city of Varna , The Sanatorium and Health Compound of Kamchiya is owned by the administration of Moscow ... ....

Bulgarian Town Hopes Celebrity Murals Bring In Tourists

Edit Voa News 09 Feb 2016
Associated Press. STARO ZHELEZARE, BULGARIA—. A sleepy village in central Bulgaria is harnessing the power of celebrities, hoping for an economic revival through art. Outdoor murals in the village of Staro Zhelezare feature local people alongside celebrities on their homes ... former strongman Todor Zhivkov ... 27, 2016 ... ....

AP PHOTOS: Bulgarian town hopes murals bring in the tourists

Edit The Oklahoman 29 Jan 2016
STARO ZHELEZARE, Bulgaria (AP) — A sleepy village in central Bulgaria is harnessing the power of celebrities, hoping for an economic revival through art. Outdoor murals in the village of Staro Zhelezare feature local people alongside celebrities on their homes ... former strongman Todor Zhivkov ... ....

Bulgaria lifts statute of limitations for communist-era crimes

Edit The Himalayan 17 Sep 2015
Among them was the killing of exiled Bulgarian dissident Georgy Markov with the poisoned tip of an umbrella on London’s Waterloo Bridge in 1978 ... A “revival process” launched by the late communist dictator Todor Zhivkov to forcibly assimilate Muslims culminated with a campaign to force them to change their names, and the exodus of over 300,000 ethnic Turks to neighbouring Turkey in 1989 ...   ....

Whatever Happened to Eastern European Communism?

Edit CounterPunch 06 Jul 2015
“[In Bulgaria] after 1989 there was [a] group of British experts who came to give advice on democracy. . There was a man in this delegation who warned me about the baby in the bath ... . ... Thompson) ... In 1967, her career was interrupted when Elena was pressed into service by Todor Zhivkov’s government ... K ... Zhivkov would have none of that, and so hastily and carelessly, often with obsolete and dangerous equipment, Bulgaria industrialized....

Bulgarias Former Vice President Atanas Semerdzhiev Dies at 90

Edit Big News Network 09 May 2015
He was Army Chief of Staff from 1962 until the fall of communism in 1989. After the ouster of former communist leader Todor Zhivkov in November 1989 Semerdzhiev served as Interior Minister in the ... ....

Communist structures risk fate of Ozymandias

Edit Kathimerini 27 Mar 2015
“Searching for information on something that happened in Bulgaria 30 years ago is much like being an archaeologist collecting evidence on an event that occurred many centuries ago.” ... “Many of the archives were destroyed on purpose because they were related to communism ... Europe ... Mihov, who currently splits his time between Sofia and Paris, was 7 years old when communism, under Stalinist strongman Todor Zhivkov, came to an end ... Europe ... ....

WHITE HOUSE NOTEBOOK: Obama celebrates India's Republic Day

Edit The Miami Herald 26 Jan 2015
President Barack Obama's experience at India's Republic Day celebration may have felt a little like his two presidential inaugurations. He watched the two-hour parade of military hardware, marching bands and elaborately dressed camels through the rain-streaked windows of a carpeted reviewing stand ... --- ... --- ... --- ... Yugoslavia's Josip Broz Tito in 1968 and 1974, Bulgaria's Todor Zhivkov in 1969 and Tanzanian leftist Julius Nyerere in 1971 ... ....

>WHITE HOUSE NOTEBOOK: Obama celebrates India's Republic Day

Edit Seattle Post 26 Jan 2015
NEW DELHI (AP) — President Barack Obama's experience at India's Republic Day celebration may have felt a little like his two presidential inaugurations ... The experience was similar to his inaugurations in Washington. But it was different in some respects, too ... The weather both times was dry and biting cold ... ___ ... ___ ... Yugoslavia's Josip Broz Tito in 1968 and 1974, Bulgaria's Todor Zhivkov in 1969 and Tanzanian leftist Julius Nyerere in 1971....

Bulgarian forces raid homes and mosque, detain prayer leader

Edit Reuters 25 Nov 2014
SOFIA (Reuters) - Bulgarian security forces raided over 40 homes and a mosque in southern Bulgaria on Tuesday to seize books and computers in a special operation aimed at uncovering radical Islamist activities ... He was free pending appeal ... More than 300,000 left the country as a result of a campaign by late communist dictator Todor Zhivkov to revive mainstream Bulgarian culture....

Opinion

Edit National Post 17 Nov 2014
Communism's great con game. National Post · ... It was an empire of illusion that began as the fantasy of intellectuals and ended in the hands of police thugs ... Todor Zhivkov, one of the great survivor-dictators of the century, maintained his job as first secretary of the Bulgarian communist party from 1954 to 1989, adroitly switching his policies from rigid to easygoing, then back again, whenever the mood changed in Moscow ... He answered ... ....

The Wall

Edit Huffington Post 13 Nov 2014
I was at the library at Northwestern University, putting the final touches on the galleys of my first book, which addressed the topic of Soviet foreign policy. There was a FedEx box at the library, and my deadline was the last pick-up time ... I was done, and I was exhilarated ... No, wait ... On that very same weekend in November, for instance, the Bulgarian Communists removed long-serving Party chief Todor Zhivkov from his position....
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