Tag: anniversary
Macedonia 06.06.23 | 09:08

Defenders killed in 2001 conflict honored in Bitola

The Municipality of Bitola, the Reginal department of the Ministry of Defense, military officers and other delegations marked on Monday the 22nd anniversary of the death of local members of defense forces in an ambush on May 5, 2001. In one of the battles of the conflict between the ethnic Albanian rebels...

Macedonia 04.05.22 | 09:18

Tensions between Macedonia and Bulgaria grow as the countries honor Goce Delcev on the 119th anniversary of his death

Macedonia today marks 119 years since the death of its great national leader Goce Delcev. One of the main organizers of VMRO, Delcev fought to liberate Macedonia from Ottoman rule and to establish a Macedonian state. He was killed by Turkish soldiers in a battle near the village of Banica in 1903, shortly...

Macedonia 01.06.21 | 15:07

Mickoski on Zaev’s 4 year anniversary – Four years of failures and lost opportunities

VMRO-DPMNE President Hristijan Mickoski held a press conference on the 4th anniversary of the forming of the first Zaev Government, in which he named the biggest failures and defeats of the past four years. “These were four lost years for our lives, four years of emptying the pockets of our citizens...

Macedonia 17.06.20 | 10:33

VMRO-DPMNE celebrates the 30th anniversary of its founding

Hristijan Mickoski congratulated all VMRO-DPMNE party members of the 30th anniversary of the founding of the party. VMRO-DPMNE was founded on June 17 1990 in Skopje, as Macedonia was seceding from Yugoslavia, and is the most successful conservative party in the country. The idea of VMRO-DPMNE was and...

World 29.05.20 | 12:13

Orban expresses gratitude to the nation on his 10th anniversary as Prime Minister

Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban expressed his gratitude to the public on the 10th anniversary of assuming the office. Orban shared a video that presents the most important moments of his second, now decade long term in office, including the economic successes, but also the fight against illegal...

Macedonia 12.04.20 | 15:44

Eight anniversary of the Good Friday massacre and justice is still denied to the families of the killed boys

Today marks the eight anniversary of the 2012 Good Friday massacre, the worst Islamist attack in Macedonia, when three ethnic Albanian Islamists killed four ethnic Macedonian youngsters and a man. Filip Slavkovski, Aleksandar Nakevski, Cvetanco Ackovski and Kire Trpkovski, all aged between 18 and 21,...

Macedonia 17.07.19 | 12:57

Legendary actor and political dissident Risto Siskov mourned on the 33rd anniversary of his death

Macedonia marks the 33rd anniversary of the death of the legendary actor and political dissident Risto Siskov. Siskov was born in 1940 in Aegean Macedonia, near the city of Ser, and the family was persecuted by the Greek Government and had to flee to Macedonia. He graduated acting in Belgrade in the...

Macedonia 12.04.19 | 11:13

Macedonia commemorates the seventh anniversary of the Smilkovsko Lake massacre

Macedonia commemorates seven years since the massacre of four youngsters near Smilkovsko Lake by a group of Albanian Islamists. The attackers also killed a middle aged man, all in an apparent attempt to spark a religious war in Macedonia on the eve of Good Friday. Filip Slavkovski, Aleksandar Nakevski,...