Tag: Pustec
News 03.02.24 | 17:23

Party in Albania protests recent snub of the Macedonian language

The Macedonain Alliance for European Integration, the main party of the ethnic Macedonians in Albania, protests the refusal of the Albanian authorities to use the Macedonian language during a recent ceremony. At the celebration of the 24th anniversary of the Prespa national park, the speeches and the...
News Macedonia 25.05.23 | 16:15

Professor Svetozarevic schooled the Bulgarian reporters: You speak the Macedonian language with added Russian words

The historian Branislav Svetozarevic on Wednesday in Pustec, Albania, genuinely schooled the Bulgarian reporters on historical issues. The reporters were there on the occasion of the opening of a Bulgarian club in the sole ethnic Macedonian municipality in Albania, which didn’t happen due to lack...
News Macedonia 24.05.23 | 19:33

The announced Bulgarian club in Albania won’t open – no legal permit

The announced Bulgarian club in Pustec, Mala Prespa, Albania, won’t open until the foundation behind it provides registration papers from the Albanian authorities, the foundation representatives admitted on Wednesday. Previously, the Mayor of the sole ethnic Macedonian municipality in Albania,...
Balkans 17.04.23 | 14:26

Albania: Two Macedonian compete for the position of Mayor of Pustec

Two Macedonians are in the running for Mayor of the  municipality of Pustec in south-east Albania, which is majority ethnic Macedonian. Incumbent Mayor Pali Kolefski from the Macedonian Alliance for European Integration party is candidate of the coalition led by the ruling Socialist Party of Prime Minister...
Macedonia 10.04.21 | 13:09

SDSM tries to deflect attention away from the passports scandal

Faced with the growing scandal over the issuing of passports to regional mafia figures, the ruling SDSM party responded with counter-allegations against VMRO-DPMNE, over a decade old program to award passports to ethnic Macedonians to Albania. SDSM insisted that the practice, which is standard for all...
Macedonia 18.12.20 | 13:44

Zaev goes to Albania to send a message to Bulgaria

Prime Minister Zoran Zaev has maintained his currently defiant posture toward Bulgaria with a visit to Pustec, a majority Macedonian municipality in the south-eastern corner of Albania. Zaev was there to deliver textbooks for the children of this impoverished rural town and announced donations to build...
Macedonia 04.12.19 | 17:54

SPO prosecutors are having a hard time proving that the 2013 elections were tampered with

During the latest hearing in a trial intiiated by Katica Janeva’s Special Prosecutor’s Office that alleges election tampering, the witness testimonies again didn’t go the way of the SPO. Prosecutor Lile Stefanova, from the now thoroughly disgraced unit, is still pushing the case against...
Macedonia 27.11.19 | 16:58

Macedonian community in Pustec collects donations for earthquake victims

The Macedonian community in the municipality of Pustec, Albania, collected donations Wednesday to the victims of the devastating earthquake that killed 29 and injured more than 700 people. The humanitarian action was organized by Albanian Parliament member Vasil Sterjovski and the mayor of Pustec.
Balkans 01.07.19 | 10:47

Edmond Temelko lost the elections in Pustec, the new mayor is Pali Kolefski

Edmond Temelko lost the local elections in Albania. Pali Andon Kolefski of the Socialist Party is the new mayor of Albanian municipality of Pustec, which is mainly populated by ethnic Macedonians. Kolefski defeated Temelko with 780 votes more. After 12 years the municipality of Pustec returns under the...
Balkans 27.06.19 | 11:08

Temelko in the race for mayor of Pustec for the fourth time

The candidate for mayor of the municipality of Pustec from the Macedonian Alliance for European Integration (MAEI), Edmond Temelko, as part of the election campaign, is holding meetings with the residents of Leska, Zrnosko, Globocani, Dolna and Gorna Gorica and other settlements. In the local elections...
Macedonia 30.04.19 | 15:36

Macedonian and Albanian governments will jointly reconstruct a school in Pustec

The friendly relations between the Republic of North Macedonia and the Republic of Albania continue to strengthen with the implementation of projects of common interest, the government press service informed. The latest result of the friendly relations between the two countries is the decision to reconstruct...

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