Illustration by Tom Jellett   Ian Robert Smith From: The Australian    September 04, 2010   JOURNEYS: THE SPIRIT OF DISCOVERY ON the shores of one of the world's oldest lakes, I see an elderly man dressed in his underwear. Tanned and fit-looking, with snowy hair, he's doing squats, touching his toes and performing deep-breathing exercises with exemplary poise. At ...

Tags: Alexander the Great, balkans, bulgaria, fyrom, Greece, greeks, Ian Robert Smith, Josip Broz Tito, lake ochrida, yugoslavia

The Helsinki Committee for Human Rights of the FYROM opposes the press release of the Synod of the FYROMian Orthodox Church – Ohrid Archbishopric (MOC-OA) [sic] issued on 11.03.2010, which violates the human rights of certain groups of citizens of the FYROM, enhances their stigmatization and contrary to the basic teachings of this institution, spreads ...

Tags: church, discrimination, Eastern Orthodox Communion, fyrom, hatred, Helsinki Committee, human rights, MOC, Orthodox, Religious Communities, skopje, stigmatization, yugoslavia

Miltiades Elia Bolaris Balkan Illusion - phantasia archaica: "Zaika. This is one of the most interesting ancient Macedonian female names. It may represent a female form of the present day Macedonian "zajak" (rabbit). In any case, there are numerous examples of names taken from names of animals. The names Zaia (Zaja) and Zaiko (Zajko) are present in ...

Tags: ancient macedonians, baltic, bulgarian, danube, dialect, donski, fyrom, Greece, greek, Linguistics, macedonia, macedonians, makedonski, Miltiades Bolaris, moesia, Paionia, slavic, slavonic, thrace, tito, yugoslavia, zaika

"I used to be a Bulgar and now i am a Serb". This was the reply of a Slav from Monastiri, while being asked about his ethnicity. This reply is indicative of the fickle ethnic consciouness which characterised in the past and now the Slavs in the Macedonian Region. It shouldnt surprise anyone some decades ...

Tags: bulgars, Charles Elliot, macedonia, macedonian slavs, serbs, slavised bulgars, yugoslavia

The European Union (EU) has deferred the decision to set a date for accession talks with the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia (FYROM) until 2010. A statement made by EU foreign ministers in Brussels said they would revisit the issue during the Spanish EU presidency, sometime between January 1 until June 30, 2010. This should ...

Tags: amac, Australian Macedonian Advisory Council, bulgaria, europe, european union, focus, Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, fyrom, macedonia, skopje, yugoslavia

By Tymphaios In a recent visit to Australia, Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia (FYROM) prime minister Nikola Gruevski spoke to FYROM expatriates about the inability for them to live freely in their FYROMacedonian motherland in Greece and Bulgaria: "Macedonians (sic) in Australia are enjoying a unique opportunity to live together with their compatriots of Aegean and ...

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According to FYROM's newspaper Vreme, a group of Bulgarian will  stage a protest in front of FYROM's embassy in Bulgaria as a mark of support to Spaska Mitrova from Gevgelija whom “they believe to be unfairly sentenced on three-month imprisonment”. The citizens decided to organize the protest in Facebook since FYROM's President Gjorge Ivanov refused to pardon Mitrova ...

Tags: bulgarian, embassy, fyrom, spaska mitrova, yugoslavia

By Miltiades Elia Bolaris On a Washington Post article, ("Another Rift Between Greece, Macedonia, Both Lay Claim to Alexander the Great", July 28, 2009) Craig Whitlock is intend on sending us scrambling back to our History books. Should we be talking about Alexandros o Megas /ΑΛΕΞΑΝΔΡΟΣ o ΜΕΓΑΣ or Aleksandar Veliki / Александар Велики? Was he ...

Tags: albanians, Alexander the Great, archaeologist, Aristotle, european union, fyrom, Greece, greeks, Ivanov, macedonia, macedonian, makedonija, milososki, Miltiades Elia Bolaris, pazko kuzman, pelasgians, slavomacedonian, slavs, voskopoulos, washington post, yugoslavia, Yugoslavs

Τα μεγάλα όνειρα τον φίλων μας Σέρβων και Βουλγαρων που πρέπει να μας ανησυχούν όλους   South Slavic Union From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia The South Slavic Union was a late 19th to early 20th century idea of a federation encompassing all South Slavic states. [edit] History Following the weakening of the Ottoman Empire prior to World War I, Serbia and ...

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Slobodan Ugrinovski, a Communist city councilor in Skoplje, states that the late Yugoslav dictator Tito is the most important figure for FYROM and that his era was pivotal to its creation.

Tags: Communism, communist, communists, culture, fyrom, Identity Crisis, Josip Broz, JSFRY, News, political, politics, SFR, Slav, slavic, slavs, tito, yugoslav, yugoslavia