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Vitaly Churkin, the diplomat who brought the decree that Russia recognizes Macedonia
The Russian Ambassador to the UN, Vitaly Churkin, who died suddenly yesterday in New York, in 1992 was a representative of Moscow who brought the official decree with which the Russian Federation officially recognized Macedonia under its constitutional name.
At that time, from June 1992 to October 1994, Churkin was then the Russian Deputy to Foreign Minister Andrey Kozyrev. According...
Poposki: How nice it would have been if Plevneliev was like Zhelev 25 years ago
25 years ago, the first country to recognize an independent and sovereign Republic of Macedonia came from Sofia, Bulgaria, "followed by all our other friends," wrote the outgoing Minister of Foreign Affairs, Nikola Poposki on his Facebook profile, expressing "gratitude to Bulgaria from Macedonia" .
Poposki said former Bulgarian President Zhelyu Zhelev had a democratic sense and respect for the...
Zhelyu Zhelev, the first to recognize Macedonia, dies
Today, at 79 years of age, first democratically elected President of Bulgaria, Dr. Zhelyu Zhelev, passed away, announced the press secretariat of the presidential office, reports agency BTA.
Zhelev was born on 3rd of March 3 1935 in the village Veselinovo, near Shumen. He completed his secondary education in high school in Shumen, and in 1958 he graduated from philosophy...
