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Census results: 3,504 Bulgarians reside in North Macedonia and only 762 speak Bulgarian at home

North Macedonia has a total of 3,504 people who declared themselves Bulgarians in the census conducted last year, and whose results were announced yesterday. The number of people who reported that they usually speak Bulgarian at home is 762, or more than four times less than the number of registered Bulgarians. Also, this figure is about two times smaller than...

Bulgarian anchor mixes apples and oranges and has managed to make “Macedonian salad”

In an article published at the website of the Bulgaria's daily newspaper 24 hours, Rosen Petrov, former MP and scriptwriter and current anchor of history show that is screened on the Bulgaria On Air online TV, writes falsities on the difficult and painful subject Bulgaria and Macedonia discuss - history. In his column titled "Macron and the Macedonians - Bulgarian...

Serbian tabloid “Alo” spreads hatred among Macedonians and Albanians

The article "The Šiptari, the Macedonians and Foe Orić want the Head of Vučić " published on December 29th, by Serbian tabloid "Alo", who are known as one of the loudest supporters of Serbian President Aleksandar Vučić , accuses the Albanians in the Balkans and the Macedonians of wanting to ruin Vucic's reputation at any price and presenting him as...

Bulgarian Prime Minister Borisov ordered a revision of all Bulgarian passports that were issued in the last 5 years

Bulgarian Prime Minister Boyko Borisov ordered the Ministry of Interior and the state agency "National Security" to check all of the Bulgarian personal documents that were issued to foreigners in the last 5 years. According to Bulgarian media, in the last 15 years, almost 90.000 people were granted Bulgarian passports. As Bulgarian media report, Borisov has asked for the...

Ahmeti: Albanians are in their place and in their own country

In the Republic of Macedonia, there are Macedonians, Albanians, Turks, Serbs, Vlachs ... We are part of the Constitution of the Republic of Macedonia and there is no dilemma whether the Albanians are in their place and in their country, said DUI leader Ali Ahmeti speaking on the show "The Road towards" on Alsat-M TV, answering a journalist question,...

Tsipras: We can not forbid them to identify themselves as Macedonians

Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras said yesterday in an interview with Greek state television ERT that with the new agreement, Greece can not ban the right of the people of the Republic of Macedonia to self-determination, MIA reports from Athens. “There is a solution for citizenship in the agreement, because we can not ban our neighbors' right to self-determination as...

Bulgaria wants to speed up the process of issuing passports to 53.000 Macedonians

We have 53.000 lodged requests with documents by Macedonian citizens that cannot become Bulgarian citizens because of certain inconsistencies in the legal base, said the Bulgarian Deputy Prime Minister Valeri Simenonov yesterday during the roundtable discussion on the subject of "Demographic policy and the work mobility" organized by the Bulgarian government, reports the Bulgarian news agency "BGNES." He...

Bulgarian MEPs have forgotten the true values of the EU, says Poposki

The outgoing Macedonian Foreign Minister, Nikola Poposki today through his official Facebook page, recalled a conversation he had with an unnamed MEP, and said that Bulgarian MEPs Andrey Kovatchev and Angel Dzhambaski put their personal goals and interests first while adopting a resolution on Albania's progress towards the EU, in which they requested the acknowledgment of the existence of...

Gruevski: They label us as chauvinists, while in the 1990’s, SDSM assaulted Albanians in Macedonia

"The image they’ve created about us, that we are nationalists, is distorted and untrue," says the leader of VMRO-DPMNE, Nikola Gruevski, in the second part of his "mega-interview" for the online edition of the weekly news portal "Republika". Gruevski dedicates a huge part of the interview to the issue, whether the VMRO-DPMNE and its leader are nationalists or not,...

Prosecution investigates case into defrauded Macedonians from the USA over cheap flights

The Public Prosecutor's Office - Prilep has started a preliminary investigation on the case of Macedonians who were defrauded in the USA for cheap airline tickets, confirmed the Prosecution in Prilep for "Meta". "After criminal charges were filed by the damaged parties in the Public Prosecutor's Office – Prilep, two criminal proceedings have been filed in connection with the case....

More than 30 lawsuits have been filed for fraud by Macedonians living in the USA over cheap flights

More than 30 lawsuits have been filed by Macedonians living in the United States, against the owner of the travel agency "Storija Travel" in Prilep, after they were accused of fraud by using cheap flights, "Meta" has learned. As already announced by “Meta”, Macedonians, expatriates have allegedly been defrauded after being promised cheap flights to Skopje’s airport. The whole scam...

Travel agency now accusing singer of defrauding Macedonians with cheap flights in the US

For each possible problem while traveling, passengers are obliged to submit their complaints to the travel agency, so the agency can take the complaint into consideration and respond", reacted today "Storia Travel" after "Meta" wrote articles looking into the alleged fraud over cheap flights which Macedonians living in the US and Australia were allegedly submitted to. We wrote recently, that...

Macedonian residents in USA fall prey to cheap flight ticket scam

Macedonians residing in the USA have been the target of a scam that apparently promises cheap flights to Skopje. The scam was originally noticed by the Macedonian Diaspora during the New Year celebration. Ljupco Stanchevski, a resident of Columbus, Ohio for 25 years, told "Meta" it was while celebrating a New Year in the city, at a party, that...

Macedonians in Washington protest outside Macedonian Embassy

Macedonians who have moved to Washington protested today in front of the Macedonian Embassy in support of their fellow citizens who are protesting the rule of law and democracy in Macedonia, "Radio MOF" Has preported “We support our fellow citizens in their demand for the resignation of President Ivanov, starting the process for selecting an interim government and the immediate...

Levica: Uncover the names of Macedonian nationals who have offshore accounts in Panama

The newly formed ‘Levica’ party are asking for the names of Macedonian nationals who are connected with the "Panama Papers” affair, to be publicly named. “Although the Public Prosecution reportedly opened proceedings on these recent developments, the public still does not know how unlawful these accounts are, and how they were opened, nor the origin of such enormous sums of...

Last year, Macedonia and a half went to Greece, and spent a fortune and a half

According to recent published figures by the Hellenic Statistical Authority, last year in Greece there were 2.7 million visitors from Macedonia. That is an increase of 26.1 percent from 2014, or approximately 600,000 visits. In the period from January to September 2015, 2,712,295 visitors entered Greece from Macedonia compared to the 2,151,751 visitors in 2014. The majority of Macedonian visitors who...