Eastern Bloc

The first of five candidates for the office in charge of opening up secret police files that were compiled during the reign of Albanian Communist dictator Enver Hoxha is expected to be approved by parliament on Thursday.

Ukrainian authorities have moved to ban the use of names of 520 Bolsheviks from the Soviet Union and famous Communist figures as part of its "de-communization" law.

The Croatian security agency has given documents from the Yugoslav secret services to the state archives with a view to giving the public partial access to the classified files for the first time.

The Economist writes that “Europe will soon have more physical barriers on its national borders than it did during the Cold War.

Veton Surroi's novel "Billionaire," published by Samizdat B92, was promoted in Belgrade's Dom Omladine venue on Monday.

This work of the Albanian journalist and author from Kosovo has been translated to Serbian by Shkelzen Maliqi.

Archives of the Defense Information Service (DIS), Bulgaria's military intelligence, are due to be handed over to the Files Commission which deals with documents of the one-time security services.

The data, however, will not include names of foreign agents affiliated to DIS to avoid risks for living agents.

Francois Hollande arrived in Havana May 10, the first French president to visit Cuba in more than a century, cementing Paris's lead in the EU rapprochement with the communist island.

Former Bulgarian Vice President (1990-1992) Gen. Atanas Semerdzhiev has died, the BNR radio station reported on Friday.

Semerdzhiev was born on 21 May 2024.

After 25 years of debate on the subject, Albania's parliament last week approved a law that partially lifts the veil of secrecy on Communist-era secret service files, creating a commission to handle requests for information.

President Barack Obama is set to remove Cuba from a list of state sponsors of terrorism, in a landmark step paving the way towards restoring ties frozen for five decades.