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“Why I don’t recognize North Macedonia as my home country”

Post author By Goran Lazarevski
Post date January 15, 2019

Opponents of changing Macedonia's name to North Macedonia protesting this week outside the Balkan country's parliament. Photo credit, Georgi Licovski/ShutterStock

Note from LeftEast editors: Last week, Macedonia’s Parliament approved a constitutional amendment to change the country’s name to the Republic of North Macedonia. Under the agreement, the country’s language will be called Macedonian and its people known as Macedonians/citizens of the Republic of North Macedonia. The new name will be used both internationally and bilaterally, […]

Tags Balkans, Greece, Macedonia, name, name dispute, nationalism, North Macedonia, West Balkans

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Kosovo: Spring of the great loneliness

Post author By Fitim Salihu
Post date May 9, 2016

Source: Prishtina Insight

Note from the LeftEast editors: this article has been published in collaboration with the Serbo-Croat web portal Bilten.Org What was predicted to be “The Kosovar Spring” in fact turned out to be opposition’s “Spring of the great loneliness”, if we can raise an analogy with one of the masterpieces of the Albanian novelist, Ismail Kadare, […]

Tags elections, Kosovo, opposition, parliamentary politics, West Balkans