Tag: albanians
Macedonia 27.02.21 | 22:41

Albanian opposition parties demand release of detained violent protesters, remind Zaev of his own riots during the Colored Revolution

Two Albanian protesters have been detained after the violent protests in downtown Skopje yesterday. Protesters threw rocks at the police, injuring a dozen officers, while demanding that the sentences of a group of Albanian islamists who carried out the 2012 Good Friday massacre are revoked. Zaev’s...
Macedonia 16.02.21 | 21:37

The Alliance of Albanians demands the removal of a geography textbook they say is offensive for Albanians

The Alliance of Albanians demands that a 2nd year high school geography textbook is removed because of the comments it contains on Albanians. The book describes the increase in Albanian immigration into Macedonia and the changing demographics, stating that some of the oldest Albanian families in Macedonia...
Macedonia 30.01.21 | 16:37

Stoilov: Do we have separate laws that apply to Albanians?

Macedonian handball star Stojance Stoilov joined hundreds of citizens who expressed their dismay that the police allowed a nationalist charged Albanian rally in downtown Skopje yesterday evening. Protesters chanted in support of the UCK/NLA terrorist organization that sparked the 2001 civil war in Macedonia,...
Macedonia 17.12.20 | 12:36

Is Pendarovski’s call that ethnic Albanians help protect Macedonian identity realistic?

While President Pendarovski’s annual address before the Parliament was overshadowed by the protest staged by the opposition VMRO-DPMNE party, one of the points he made is likely to be tested in the coming days. Pendarovski appealed to the ethnic Albanian members of Parliament, and the other non-Macedonian...
Macedonia 20.10.20 | 09:11

While over 1,300 Albanians continue to collect salaries without going to work, DUI announces a major new “adequate representation” hiring spree

The DUI party announced a major new hiring push of ethnic Albanians in the public administration. The party briefed ethnic Albanian papers that the Government will add 800 new public sector employees – 640 of whom will be ethnic Albanians. We can get things done more easily now. We have the First...
Macedonia 11.10.20 | 18:52

Government says it can’t fire ethnic Albanian employees who want to keep their pretend public sector jobs

First Deputy Prime Minister Artan Grubi acknowledged that the Government won’t be able to fire any of the 1,350 ethnic Albanians hired in the public administration simply to boost Albanian representation, who are not given actual jobs and collect salaries from the comfort of their homes. The employees...
Macedonia 09.10.20 | 10:30

SDSM party members falsely claimed they are Albanians to slide in the public sector jobs quota

A shocking case of abuse of preferential ethnic hiring rules is reported in the agriculture inspection service, where ethnic Macedonian or Vlach supporters of the ruling SDSM party submitted applications in which they claim they are ethnic Albanians in order to get the job. Media outlets published the...
Macedonia 07.10.20 | 13:47

Albanian high school students in Struga hold protest, demand in-person teaching

High school students from Struga and several near-by villages protested today, again demanding to be allowed to attend in-person classes. Most Albanian language classes in the Niko Nestor and Ibrahim Temo high schools have boycotted the online classes since last week when school started. Today they were...
Macedonia 29.07.20 | 10:39

Ahmeti meets with Kasami to discuss his plan for a new Albanian platform

DUI party leader Ali Ahmeti met with the leader of BESA Bilal Kasami to promote his plan for an all-Albanian political platform. The proposal, under which Ahmeti wants primacy among all Albanian parties, given that he won the most seats in the next Parliament (15), was already rejected by the close runner...
Macedonia 23.07.20 | 16:51

Map of Greater Albania flown over Gostivar

Unknown perpetrators flew a drone in Gostivar today that was carrying a map of Greater Albania. The map was recently popularized by Kosovo born singer Dua Lipa, who shared it on her social media accounts, with a comment insisting the Albanians are autochthonous inhabitants of the lands, while the other...
Balkans 20.07.20 | 21:22

Dua Lipa’s nationalist post inflamed the internet

Kosovo born star Dua Lipa continues to rile the internet a day after her message that showed the map of Greater Albania, incorporating parts of Macedonia, Greece, Serbia and Montenegro. The map, widely used by Albanian nationalists, was accompanied by the word Autochtonous, meant to declare that the...
Macedonia 15.07.20 | 21:21

Ahmeti expects that DUI will beat SDSM and the Alliance for the Albanian vote

DUI party leader Ali Ahmeti said that he expects that he will win the majority among ethnic Albanians. DUI fought with Zoran Zaev’s SDSM party for the Albanian vote, as well as with the Alliance of Albanians, for the traditional role of the party that is invited in the ruling coalition as the representative...
Macedonia 10.07.20 | 19:01

Comment on Zaev’s leaked anti-Albanian slur – a person who doesn’t love what is his, won’t love what is someone else’s

Outrage ensued after a leaked tape revealed SDSM party leader Zoran Zaev in a conversation in which a slur was used for ethnic Albanians. Zaev’s interlocutor uses the widely known slur while Zaev responds that “they are worthless”, later claiming that he was talking about the electoral...
Macedonia 10.07.20 | 17:47

Leaked tape shows Zaev caling Albanians “worthless” while his partner uses a slur against them

A new leaked audio recording shows Zoran Zaev in a  conversation with a man who uses a slur for ethnic Albanians, to which Zaev responds that “they” are worthless. The man, whose voice is obscured, tells Zaev that the Albanians have sent their invoice, likely meaning a set of concessions...
Macedonia 04.06.20 | 18:41

After the horse has bolted: DUI calls on the public to avoid family gatherings

The DUI party, which represents mostly ethnic Albanians, called on the public to avoid family gatherings that have contributed to the recent major spike in the coronavirus epidemic. Covid-19 continues to endanger the health of the citizens and we need to stop it. Let’s avoid family gatherings and...
Culture 02.03.20 | 11:55

Macedonian publishers say the Culture Ministry is heavily favoring Albanian ones with its grants

The MAI association of publishers filed a protest with the Culture Ministry over its annual program of subsidies, that heavily favors Albanian language publishers. Led by the ethnic Albanian Alternative party, the Ministry is paying significantly more to Albanian language publishers than to Macedonian...
Macedonia 23.01.20 | 21:27

SDSM is the second largest Albanian party in Macedonia, Ademi says

SDSM party official Edmond Ademi declared his party as the second largest party for ethnic Albanians in Macedonia. SDSM has been courting the Albanian vote since 2016, as it continues to lose ethnic Macedonian voters by a growing margin to VMRO-DPMNE. I am an Albanian who is a Minister from SDSM, the...
Macedonia 17.01.20 | 09:39

Taravari: Albanians are very disappointed with SDSM

Zoran Zaev had a historic chance to be Tito, but he didn’t use it. The Alliance for Albanians secretary general Arben Taravari said Thursday on the “24 Analysis” show as part of the debate about what are the chances of Albanian opposition winning the election among the Albanian electorate. Asked...
Macedonia 03.01.20 | 10:49

Deputy Interior Minister promotes Albanian – Macedonian rivalry in the police force

As the Interior Ministry is about to be placed under opposition control today, to ensure the police is not abused anymore for the benefit of the ruling SDSM party, Deputy Interior Minister Agim Nuhiu, who is from the Albanian DUI party, posted a comment bragging about the appointment of ethnic Albanian...
Macedonia 23.12.19 | 12:35

Zaev stands by the Albanian language law, says Albanians will have “100 percent equality”

In his interview with Pink TV, outgoing Prime Minister Zoran Zaev insisted that he will stand by the Law on the use of Languages, which turns Macedonia into a bilingual Macedonian – Albanian state, despite the many issues with the law noted by the Venice Commission. Down in the polls among ethnic...
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