26 May 2020
The Macedonian Academy of Sciences and Arts (MASA) published a Linguistic Atlas of Macedonian Dialects, with 50 dialectic maps that cover the Macedonian dialects territory represented through the network of the populated places within the frame of the General Slavic Linguistic Atlas (OLA). “With this international project, for the first time in the Slavic linguistics, […]
30 January 2019
The Government has announced that at its 117th session the Albanian ministers for the first time spoke Albanian, in accordance with provisions of the Law on the Use of Languages. This law was published in the “Official Gazette” even though it did not receive the President Gjorge Ivanov’s signature. Government changes to the abortion law were accepted, while previous […]
18 January 2019
The Law on Languages promotes the rights of all minority communities and does not foresee new employment. The Macedonian language with the Cyrillic alphabet remains the only official language throughout the whole territory of the Republic of Macedonia and its international relations, said the Government in today’s statement regarding fake news and untruths about the application of the Law […]
21 December 2018
Associate Professor Ana Kocheva, linguist from the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences (BAN) in an interview with the web-portal “Dir.BG” published yesterday, said that the Macedonian language was created in 1944 as a result of Serbia’s partial success in a project to unite of all the South Slavs. In the interview, the journalist speaks of “the […]
10 December 2018
Bulgarian Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Defense Krasimir Karakachanov and President of the VMRO-BND, followed by Bulgarian MEP Andrej Kovachev of the GERB, both members of the Bulgarian political right-wing party, have expressed severe views regarding the Macedonian national identity this weekend and threatened to block Macedonia’s membership in the EU and NATO if Macedonia continues […]
7 December 2018
The Greek media has speculated that both Skopje and Athens have officially dictated that, “Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras will ask the UN to approve an additional protocol that will make the Prespa Agreement more precise in the sense that it will give a very limited space for language and nation.” According to government spokesman […]
20 June 2017
At today’s press conference, Bulgarian Prime Minister Boyko Borisov with his Macedonian counterpart, Zoran Zaev, while answering questions from reporters on which language the agreement on good neighborly relations will be signed in, he replied that the agreement will be “in the language that is stated in the Constitution” of Macedonia. “The details, in fact, […]
