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Thaci : The Nationalism and Nazism of FYROM’s government is anti-Albanian

Thaci : The Nationalism and Nazism of FYROM’s government is anti-Albanian

Albanians are in favor of a Name Change in FYROM The Albanian leader of PDSH, Menduh Thaci stated yesterday that Albanians prefer a Name Change for fYROM and this year was extremely difficult for them. “ I personally do not expect any improvement. If the international community does not take serious steps to discipline this government, then the chances for progress are very low,” said Thaci. […]

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Οι Δηλώσεις που σόκαραν την FYROM!!

Οι Δηλώσεις που σόκαραν την FYROM!!

Αποστομωτικές Δηλώσεις των τελευταίων χρόνων από Ξένους Πολιτικούς, Ιστορικούς και άλλους Διανοούμενους για την FYROM!!   Greece has given immense support to FYROM and helped it regarding its future accession of the EU. I consider it wrong for any state to usurp and steal the symbol of the civilization and culture of other peoples.[..]For all of us who love History, […]

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Historiography in FYROM – Nationalism, Myth creations and Nation-Building

FYROM’s academic historiography has traditionally embraced the extreme nationalist view which characterised Slavomacedonian historians since 40’s. In fact today we can state safely that Stefan Troebst’s description in his “Die bulgarisch-jugoslawische Kontroverse um Makedonien” not only is still applying, but it has became worst during the last years. Troebst had wrote in 1983 :  “Historical research in the SR [Socialist Republic of] Macedonia is not a humanist, civilizing end in itself, but is direct […]

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Albanian Commentary Sees Encyclopedia as Sign of Growing [FYR]Macedonian Nationalism

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 […]

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Albanian Academics rebuke the so-called “Macedonian” Encyclopaedia

Albanian Academics rebuke the so-called “Macedonian” Encyclopaedia

“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 […]

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Εθνικά θέματα και πληροφόρηση (με αφορμή τη συνέντευξη Λοβέρδου)

Η ατζέντα των εκλογών έχει περιοριστεί σε “ζητήματα της καθημερινότητας“. Υπάρχει τίποτε βασικότερο από το καλάθι της νοικοκυράς; Την εργασιακή ανασφάλεια; Διαφωνεί κάποιος; Δεν είναι άνευ σημασίας πια τα εθνικά θέματα; Δεν πρέπει να κλείσουμε επιτέλους τα ανοιχτά μέτωπα; Εξαρτάται. Σε τι είδους πατρίδα θέλουμε να γεμίσουμε το καλάθι μας; Το μεγαλύτερο ποσοστό του περιεχομένου που δημιουργούν τα ελληνικά παραδοσιακά […]

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NATO’s Jaap de Hoop Scheffer Warns FYROM About the Name Dispute with Greece [29-IV-2009]

NATO’s General Secretary Jaap de Hoop Scheffer, in a meeting with Branko Crvenkovski, warns about the possibility of a failure of referendum about country’s name, predicting a possibility of a security crisis.

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Alexander Mania Grips FYROM

Alexander Mania Grips FYROM

  Alexander Mania Grips FYROM The following is an interesting article that describes how the government of the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia (F.Y.R.O.M) is constructing a mythical historiography in order to appeal to the masses. The Gruevski administration is promoting the notions that the Slavic population of F.Y.R.O.M are descendants of the ancient Macedonians and are the originators of […]

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Shocking News!! Slavic ultra-Nationalists attack against Greek Tourists in FYROM

Shocking News!! Slavic ultra-Nationalists attack against Greek Tourists in FYROM

Another alarming event of the anti-Greek Hysteria and Fanaticism prevailing currently in  FYROM took place. A group of Greek tourists who were at that time in the centre of the city of Ohrid, were attacked by a group numbering about 20 persons, mainly of young ages. According to E-Tipos, this group of Nationalists initially wrote with red paint Anti-Greek mottos on the  Greek Bus […]

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FYROM’s extreme nationalism leads nowhere

FYROM’s extreme nationalism leads nowhere

http://www.americanchronicle.com/articles/76844 Australian Macedonian Advisory Council October 10, 2008 “A nation is a group of persons united by a common error about their ancestry and a common dislike of their neighbours.” Karl Deutsch´s definition of a nation holds a great deal of truth, especially while dealing with one of the most troublesome regions of Europe; the Balkans. One of the challenges […]

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