Tag: ilinden
Macedonia 12.08.23 | 10:06

“SDS needs to respond whether they withdrew their Ilinden Declaration under Bulgarian pressure?”

VMRO-DPMNE called on SDSM to respond whether they withdrew the proposed Declaration about Ilinden under pressure from Bulgaria. SDSM said that they will submit a resolution on the historic uprising before its 120th anniversary, but as Bulgaria also claims the event as part of its national heritage, SDSM...

Macedonia 11.08.23 | 20:18

Where is the Declaration on Ilinden?, VMRO asks SDSM

The public still awaits to see the text of the Ilinden Declaration that SDS announced they will submit, said VMRO-DPMNE spokesman Naum Stoilkovski. Ilinden came and went, and we didn’t see a letter from this Declaration, let alone held a Parliament session to discuss it. In the meantime, the Prime...

Macedonia 04.08.23 | 11:10

Bulgaria appropriates Ilinden, Kovachevski is silent

Kovachevski, Marichikj, and Osmani really embarrassed themselves on this IlinThey celebrated it without mentioning that it is a Macedonian holiday and abused it to convince the people that the constitutional amendments are good, despite that 80% of the people are against them, VMRO-DPMNE reacts in its...

Macedonia 03.08.23 | 20:11

Records from Bulgaria show that Ilinden was a Macedonian uprising

The 120th anniversary of Ilinden reignited the dispute between Macedonia and Bulgaria – after Bulgarian President Rumen Radev came out with a position that Ilinden is a Bulgarian uprising. But photographs from Sofia, of the subsequent celebrations of Ilinden, show that it was always considered...

Macedonia 03.08.23 | 12:53

Democratic Union: The authorities celebrated the greatest Macedonian holiday far from the people and under strong police protection

The country’s leadership celebrated the greatest Macedonian national and state holiday Ilinden far from the people, with strong police protection, and selected guests, the Democratic Union reacts on Thursday. “It is indisputable that the EU is our national, strategic, and state interest,...

Macedonia 03.08.23 | 12:05

VMRO-DPMNE: The people are united to protect the national interests

The people are now united, as they were throughout this period, and demand a strong national unity to protect the national and state interests. The authorities ignore their own people, they humiliate them and try to divide them. The authorities’ attempts to make constitutional amendments hit a...

Macedonia 02.08.23 | 22:50

Dismal attendance at the main Ilinden celebration

The public largely ignored this year’s Ilinden celebration in Krusevo, where Parliament Speaker Talat Xhaferi delivered a speech insisting that Macedonia must approve the Bulgarian demands and amend its Constitution. The lack of patriotic fervor and the constant national humiliations under the...

Macedonia 02.08.23 | 14:05

Political analyst Mickovski: I would stay away from terms like Ilinden … hearth

The political analyst Ivor Mickovski doesn’t agree with the slogan of this year’s celebration of the Day of the Republic “Ilinden – The Hearth of the Fatherland”. I would stay away from so pretentious and forced patriotic phrases because our little country, especially...

Macedonia 02.08.23 | 12:51

Mickoski: Macedonia and Ilinden are two intertwined strains that indicate the identity of each Macedonian

On the occasion of the state holiday on August 2 – Ilinden, the leader of VMRO-DPMNE, Hristijan Mickoski, congratulated the Macedonian citizens. “Ilinden is the brightest day for Macedonians. Ilinden is the symbol of the Macedonian fight for freedom. Ilinden is the foundation of Macedonian...

Macedonia 02.08.23 | 11:47

Today is Ilinden, one of the greatest Macedonian holidays

Today Macedonia celebrates Ilinden – the Day of the Republic, one of the largest state holidays in the Republic of Macedonia and a religious holiday celebrated in honor of St. Elijah. The Day of the Republic marks two large events that took place on this date when the foundations of the Macedonian...

Macedonia 01.08.23 | 18:06

Kocarev: Macedonia is again enslaved, a vassal state, a banana republic

We desperately need a Third Ilinden, says Macedonian Academy President Ljupco Kocarev in his remarks on the 120th anniversary of the historic uprising. Macedonia is again enslaved, a vassal state, a banana republic, a neo-colonial fief. The sole culprits for this are the part of the Macedonian politicians...

Macedonia 28.07.23 | 18:24

Copycats: SDSM submitted an Ilinden Declaration to the Macedonian Parliament, just like Petkov’s party did in Bulgaria

The ruling SDSM submitted on Friday a Declaration on Ilinden, the biggest Macedonian national holiday. On Monday, the party of the former Bulgarian Prime Minister Kiril Petkov, submitted an identical declaration to the Bulgarian Parliament, only their declaration speaks about a Bulgarian uprising and...

Macedonia 22.07.23 | 22:45

Bulgaria lays claim on the Ilinden Uprising

The PP party, which is part of the ruling coalition in Bulgaria, proposed a resolution to the Parliament declaring the Ilinden Uprising – or the Ilindensko-Preobrazensko Uprising as it is known in Bulgaria, as a Bulgarian historic event. “It was the wreath of the Bulgarian national-liberation...

Macedonia 02.07.23 | 12:21

Moroccan migrants arrested after they entered the Skopje barracks

Two Moroccan citizens in their 20ies were detained yesterday after they entered the Ilinden army barracks complex in Skopje. The two were found by barracks employees who called the police. Officers escorted the men to the Tabanovce border crossing with Serbia, and the local migrant processing center.  

Macedonia 03.08.22 | 10:47

From congratulation messages to threats from “brotherly” Sofia for Ilinden

The celebration of August 2, Republic Day in Macedonia, brought dissonant reactions from Sofia, against the “French proposal”, which is supposed to calm passions. What is more important, the differences are also noticeable in the contents of the congratulations of the official institutions,...

Macedonia 02.08.22 | 21:27

Nikoloski: The desperate government didn’t let people who are not SDSM members to attend the Meckin Kamen event

If the Ilinden people conquered inch by inch, both in 1903 and 1944 they painstakingly created a state. We see that that country is rapidly collapsing. Ilinden and Asnom Macedonia is collapsing. The ideals of all those who gave their lives for an independent and united Macedonia are being destroyed....

Macedonia 02.08.22 | 21:19

Videos show the police attacking people singing songs about Macedonia and booing Kovacevski

Several videos have been shared on social networks showing the behavior of the police towards the people who came to Meckin Kamen for the Ilinden celebration.   The first video shows the police and security forces pushing away the citizens who booed the Prime Minister Kovacevski when he was passing...

Macedonia 02.08.22 | 21:15

The Prime Minister gathered audience, but MTV had to play music so that the booing could not be heard

“Either stand up to defend the dignity of the party or let’s all go home” is part of the message, which is claimed on social networks to be just one of the calls to SDSM membership to attend today’s celebration of Ilinden on Meckin Kamen, where Prime Minister Dimitar Kovacevs...

Macedonia 02.08.22 | 21:08

Mickoski: Macedonia should recover what was lost, the people should not fall for the lies of SDSM, VMRO-DPMNE and the coalition are a guarantee that there will be no constitutional changes

By uniting and reaching out to everyone who puts Macedonia first, VMRO-DPMNE will fight the betrayals and the painful reality, the party’s leader Hristijan Mickoski said in his speech marking the Day of the Republic in the Struga village of Tasmarunista, where key battles took place during the Ilinden...

Macedonia 02.08.22 | 11:42

Xhaferi: We have a common state and we are all responsible to protect and develop it

We have a common country and we are all responsible to preserve and develop it, for us and for future generations. It is our debt to all those who fought for such a civil state, a society of all citizens in which will grow up our children, grandchildren and future generations who deserve to live, grow,...

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