This is great news! Although I have no alternative to the current policy of the Macedonian government, which is pro-Nato and pro-EU, I think that Macedonia should go out of its way to develop closer ties to Russia. This is a good step. Invite Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn to Ohrid. Give his free hotel for a week. Invite him to Kiril and Metodi University.
RIA Novosti - Culture - Macedonia to host Russian church music concerts
Only Fools and Hearses is a warts and all account of three loveable Australian lads and a hearse, affectionately called the Big Girl, travelling the world. From partying and hangovers at all the must-see European tourist destinations, to being thrown into a Macedonian gaol under suspicion of spying, It will be released in August. They should be interviewed by Macedonian journalists in Austrialia.
Dymocks Booksellers: "Only Fools and Hearses "
This is The Greek Helsinki Monitor writing to The Economist inAugust 2001, regarding the use of "Slav" to describe Macedonians instead of just plain Macedonian. The CIA is now using Macedonian instead of "Slav" Drip, Drip, Drip ... we are making a difference.
Macedonia News - Greek Helsinki on Media Coverage Using "Slav"
We need more information about this trend. I am not sure what this story is saying with regard to the relations between Albanian and Macedonian Muslims.
By definition, since Greece is a member of the EU and NATO, Greece's values regarding minority rights of ethnic Macedonians represent EU and NATO values. Anyone adopting the Greek position on minority rights would be allowed into the EU and NATO, no questions asked.
Yahoo! Groups : Macedonian_News_Service Messages : Message 6538 of 6538: "UNITED KINGDOM USES MACEDONIA'S CONSTITUTIONAL NAME IN BILATERAL COMMUNICATION"
Maybe someone at the BBC can explain why this story made the news, while the plight of ethnic Macedonians in Grece is ignored.
BBC NEWS | Wales | Embassy row over folk group visas
When journalists, consultants and politicians refer to the Macedonian people as "Orthodox Slavs", instead of just plain Macedonians, it is not a mistake. It is a deliberate and conscious decision to denigrate the identity of the Macedonian people in support of the "Greek position" that ethnic Macedonians have no language, history or culture. Heh! It sound like he is calling Macedonians "a bunch of "N-words".
Macedonia pulls back from the edge - Editorials & Commentary - International Herald Tribune: "Macedonia pulls back from the edge
Gerald Zarr International Herald Tribune
THURSDAY, JULY 7, 2005
SKOPJE, Macedonia Five years ago the mood in Macedonia was grim. The war in neighboring Kosovo had pushed 370,000 Kosovar Albanian refugees across the border, threatening Macedonia's delicate ethnic balance between Orthodox Slavs and Muslim Albanians."
Gerald Zarr is a consultant on international development and a freelance writer.
A nice small interview with former President Kiro Gligorov. It would greatly help the Macedonian cause of his thoughts on the various western personalities that passed through the Balkans would be published in English. It would not be a great project. One article a week. What did he think of Albright, Mitterand, Major etc. How did they respond when he mentioned that Albanians in Kosovo had few rights while the Macedonians in Greece have no rights.
MACEDONIAN STATE WILL SURVIVE, FORMER PRESIDENT GLIGOROV SAYS
