Bulgaria, a country that's both old and new: Bulgaria can be said to be a country that's very old as well as very new.  It's ancient history dates back to the Old Stone Age period of the 1st millenium B.C. and yet it wasn't until 1989 that it broke away from the Eastern Bloc and became an independent country, with its new Constitution being enacted in 1991.  From this time on, Bulgaria's race to modernise itself included full membership of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) in … [Read more...]