Category: Balkans
Balkans 02.03.23 | 13:17

Greek Transportation Minister Karamanlis resigns after deadly train disaster

Greek Transportation Minister Kostas Karamanlis resigned yesterday, after the deadly train crash that killed over 40 passengers, most of them students, near the city of Larissa.   Human error is the likely cause of the tragedy, as the passenger train was put on the same track as a freight train....
Balkans 01.03.23 | 09:41

Dozens killed in a horrific train accident in Greece

A disastrous railway accident happened in Greece overnight, when a passenger and a freight train collided near Larissa. Three dozen passengers are reported killed and dozens more are injured. Hospitals in the city are full of casualties and media outlets are reporting horrific testimonies from the survivors,...
Balkans 26.02.23 | 11:14

Bulgarian BTV filmed a documentary: Bulgarians are victims of violence in Macedonia

Bulgarian television BTV filmed a documentary entitled “Bulgarians in North Macedonia”. The documentary, as the TV says, was filmed in Ohrid, and its purpose is to prove that the Bulgarians in Macedonia face violence, which is connected to the last event with the beating of Hristijan Pendikov. After...
Macedonia Balkans 25.02.23 | 19:11

BTV announces broadcast of a film entitled “Bulgarian in Macedonia”

The Bulgarian BTV has announced the broadcast of a film titled “Bulgarian in Macedonia” for today. The announcement does not say whether it is a documentary, but according to published excerpts, it contains testimonies of citizens of Macedonia who declare themselves Bulgarian, including Hristijan...
Balkans 21.02.23 | 15:09

Putin with a message to the West: They played with people’s lives and destroyed Yugoslavia, Libya and Syria without conscience

Russian President Vladimir Putin addressed the Russian Federal Assembly ahead of the first anniversary of the Russian special operation in Ukraine. He sent a message to the West. They played with people’s lives and played a dirty game. They played with people’s lives and destroyed Yugoslavia,...
Balkans 19.02.23 | 10:34

Iotova: If the Bulgarians are not included in the Constitution, there will be no negotiations

Bulgaria will not make concessions on the agreements with Macedonia, said the Bulgarian Vice President, Iliana Iotova, who arrived in Skopje yesterday on her way back from Kosovo for a meeting with representatives of the Bulgarian community in Macedonia. The meeting took place in the building of the...
Balkans 17.02.23 | 21:53

Disaster: 18 Afghans found dead in an abandoned truck near Sofia

Eighteen migrants from Afghanistan were found dead in a truck carrying a total of 50 people through Bulgaria. The truck was left abandoned, without apparent signs of a traffic accident. The surviving people are in serious but not life threatening condition. One of the deceased is a child and five of...
Macedonia Balkans 16.02.23 | 13:27

Tcherneva also confirms that Macedonia hasn’t started negotiations with the EU, as we are told at home

Any worsening of bilateral relations between Sofia and Skopje not only makes it impossible to include the Bulgarians in the constitution but is in the interest of Russian goals in the Balkans, says Vessela Tcherneva, the deputy director of the European Council on Foreign Relations and adviser to the...
Balkans 15.02.23 | 09:24

Pendikov: I dream of returning to Macedonia, where I will say that I am Bulgarian

Hristijan Pendikov, from Ohrid, told BTV that he wants to return to Macedonia and say that he is Bulgarian. This is his first appearance after the attack in Ohrid, after which Sofia took him on a government plane to Bulgaria for treatment. He explained that in Ohrid they beat him because he said that...
Balkans 12.02.23 | 09:28

Albania declares day of national mourning after Türkiye, Syria earthquakes

The Albanian government decided Friday to declare one day of national mourning after earthquakes hit Türkiye and Syria earlier this week. Prime Minister Edi Rama said Monday Feb. 13 will be a national day of mourning as a sign of pain and prayer for the victims of the tragedy at the Turkish-Syrian border. ”A...
Balkans 10.02.23 | 15:12

Macedonian national arrested in Greece for possession of 45kg cannabis

A 27-year-old Macedonian national was arrested in a police operation near the Greek city of Kilkis, for transporting 45 kg of cannabis, Greek news agency ANA-MPA reports. According to the same information, the arrested person initially did not stop at the police signs, tried to run away, increasing the...
Balkans 09.02.23 | 14:20

He will walk around with bodyguards: Pendikov gets Bulgarian security

Vice Prime Minister for Public Order and Security and Minister of Internal Affairs Ivan Demerdzhiev met with the secretary of the Bulgarian club, the Macedonian citizen Hristijan Pendikov, who was attacked in Ohrid. He undertook to provide for Pendikov to guarantee his safety. Minister Demerdzhiev was...
Balkans 09.02.23 | 12:45

Radev: We are currently in a situation of veto for Macedonia

We are currently in a situation of veto. With the solution that we managed with great effort to insert into the negotiating framework, the negotiations will start only after the Bulgarians enter the constitution of our neighbor. They have not yet been included and negotiations have not started. It is...
Balkans 09.02.23 | 10:55

Persons who destroyed the Macedonian club in Bulgaria released from custody, no charges filed

The two municipal officials in Blagoevgrad and their wives who vandalized the Macedonian club in the city have been released from custody. No charges have been filed, reports the Bulgarian TV Nova. I am the initiator of what happened. This is not an act of vandalism. We have shown our deep indignation...
Balkans 08.02.23 | 12:35

Attackers of the Macedonian club in Blagoevgrad work in a municipal utility company

The two men detained by the Bulgarian police because of the stoning of the Macedonian cultural club “Nikola Vapcarov” in Blagoevgrad on Saturday evening, are employees of the municipal utility company “Ozelenuvanje”, while the two women deprived of liberty together with them are...
Balkans 08.02.23 | 11:44

Blagoevgrad mayor: I will punish the attackers of the Macedonian club when Skopje punishes the police officers

The Macedonian cultural club “Nikola Vapcarov” in Bulgaria was vandalized a few days ago, and yesterday two employees of the municipal enterprise “Ozelenuvanje” of the municipality of Blagoevgrad were detained. The mayor of Blagoevgrad, Ilko Stojanov, said that the court is competent...
Balkans 08.02.23 | 08:59

Pendikov will get Bulgarian security in Macedonia as well?

Bulgarian Minister Milkov announced that Pendikov will have a meeting with the Bulgarian Minister of Internal Affairs, Ivan Demerdzhiev, “at which it will be specified to what extent and whether he needs security on our territory so that he does not become a victim of provocation.” Regarding...
Balkans 07.02.23 | 14:42

Pendikov to receive an apartment and money from Bulgaria

ΛHristijan Pendikov, the beaten man from Ohrid, who was treated in Sofia by the Bulgarian authorities, will receive an apartment for temporary living and money to support himself while he is in Bulgaria. This was announced today by the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Nikolay Milkov, at a press conference....
Macedonia Balkans 07.02.23 | 09:46

Pendikov recovers from the beating and poses between Radev and Iotova without a single bruise

Bulgaria will no longer tolerate violence from Macedonia, said President Rumen Radev, who met the beaten Hristijan Pendikov, secretary of the Bulgarian club “Tsar Boris the Third” in Ohrid. As reported by several Bulgarian media, Radev expressed this attitude at the meeting with Pendikov,...
Macedonia Balkans 06.02.23 | 08:40

In six years, 8,500 Albanians and 41,855 Macedonians received certificate of Bulgarian origin

Bulgarian news portal Sega.bg writes that from the beginning of 2015 until July 7, 2021, 8,474 Albanians were approved for their request of Bulgarian origin. Albanians are in fifth place among foreigners who recognize their Bulgarian roots. Only Macedonia, Ukraine, Moldova and Serbia are ahead of them....
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