Skopje 24 Ore Nov 09 p 4   Report by Rita Kadriu: “Berisha Continues To Refuse Gruevski”   Prime Minister Nikola Gruevski has on several occasions attempted to visit Tirana, but all replies from the Albanian Government have been negative thus far, with Prime Minister Berisha’s busy schedule being cited as an excuse, sources within the Albanian Government have confirmed […]

 Ljubco Georgievski: The “Macedonian” encyclopedia is in its essence anti-Bulgarian, anti-Albanian, anti-Greek and pro-Serbian    2 October 2009 | 14:57 | FOCUS News Agency   Former “Macedonian” Prime Minister and current informal leader of VMRO – National Party, comments for Focus News Agency on the “Macedonian” encyclopedia, issued by the “Macedonian” Academy of Science and Arts. Focus Agency: How would […]

Skopje Utrinski Vesnik, 24 Sep 09, p 13 Commentary by Petar Arsovski: “Tiny, Tiny, Tiny… Group”   The Petty Assembly of the Alleged Learned (MANU), that is, our autochthonous “tiny group,” has recently denuded us completely. With the latest encyclopedic gaffe and the subsequent debate, this senior institution of impartial scientists dedicated to the search of truth through facts and […]

Skopje Dnevnik 24 Sep 09 p 11   Commentary by Nikola Popovski: “Yeast”     […]There is a core of academicians and their collaborators from the Skopje state university within MANU, who have a very inaccurate perception of [FYR]Macedonia and its future. […] Some MANU members needed the yeast that then VMRO-DPMNE Prime Minister Ljubco Georgievski put into the dough in order […]

Pristina Express 23 Sep 09 p 3 Commentary by Mufail Limani: “Encyclopedia of Hatred”   What [FYR]Macedonian academicians have written about Albanians in their “encyclopedia” does not represent anything new. That Albanians have come down from mountains — that is, they are nomads and barbarians without culture — is, we know, an old song of the dreadful melodrama of the […]

Tirana Tema, 23 Sep 09, p 10 Commentary by Niuton Mulleti: “Gruevski Government’s Blind Alley”   The publication of the “Encyclopedia” by the [FYR]Macedonian Academy of Science and Arts is yet another indication of the returning wave of nationalism in this country.  What makes its publication even more scandalous is that the Encyclopedia was funded by the [FYR]Macedonian Government, that […]

From Dnevnik,  22 Sep 09,  p 13 by Saso Kokalanov: “Sehtanski for Academician”   We [FYRO]Macedonians are autochthonous champions in the historic discipline of shooting oneself in the foot and the newly-published MANU [FYRO]Macedonian Encyclopedia is an anthological example of this.  [..] now, the most senior scholarly institution in the country has managed to shoot a big bullet in the hardly […]

“Encyclopedia? Macedonia Was Unknown in the 15th Century” by Alma Mile.   Take from Panorama (Tirana 20 Sep 09 p 5).  “ “This sort of encyclopedia is an expression of deep despair.”  This is the view of Dritan Egro, a historian of Albania under Ottoman occupation, who also explains the motives that make the Slavomacedonians embark on this onslaught against […]