Obviously, every time I promise myself to follow up a post events happening in the real world that distract me from my duties as Internet users.
And the result is' that in the meantime the world is changing, and things happen.
For example I wanted to tell the climate of expectation that could be seen in Macedonia, NATO's decision whether to invite or not to join this small country.
It seems that the USA is delighted to invite the extended family, and no other member of the alliance had anything or 'objection, except Greece. And these kinds of decisions it takes the unanimity '.
I attended a fascinating news from the dramatic tones, which passed by a press conference with Greek Minister conciliatory voice explained that they were not asking that much, only to change name (such as Upper Macedonia), the American representative who recommended the two litigants to reach an agreement very quickly, 'cause that would be the NATO meeting (for reasons not explained, and perhaps already' know all those parts, but not me) the last possible train to get an invitation for membership.
sounded a lot like a "and changed the name up, that cost you," to which the Macedonians with whom I had the good fortune to watch TV at that time (and probably all the Macedonians in front of the tv all the country at that time ) railed against the screen as he spoke.
few days ago I read that nothing in the end, Greece has maintained the veto and there 'was an invitation from NATO to Macedonia.
and I 'sorry, really seemed to keep us.
But pick up where you interrupted last post:
Macedonia and Bulgaria, Bulgaria
never did too many stories to Macedonia and recognizes it as a state. The Bulgarians are, however, 'unanimously agree on one fact: there is Macedonia, but the Macedonians do not.
My Travel Guide Sofia, in describing the relations of similarity with the rest of the Bulgarian Slavic, specifically with regard to the Macedonian language that it does not exist, is in fact a dialect of Bulgarian. Predictably, a Macedonian and mention this' cause of seizures.
An important Bulgarian town, which I read an interesting piece on the free magazine of Bulgaria Air, is presented as the author of several best-selling book, including one titled "The ten lies of Macedonia".
tells me of a discussion among some of my companions local Macedonians and some Bulgarians regard to membership of a certain famous folk song, which the Bulgarians considered indisputably part of the Bulgarian tradition. The song is called "Eagle you drink water from the river Vardar," or something like that. The river Vardar Macedonia and does not pass through Bulgaria. Although this may seem a convincing argument, I begin now to understand the psychology of the Balkan enough to figure out why for the river Vardar and Bulgarian Bulgarian .
Macedonia and Serbia
I did not understand whether relations with Serbia are good or bad. Probably both.
There 's a long and complicated story that involves an important prelate in the Orthodox and the Macedonians will be very happy to tell with passion why the Serbs are in the wrong. The Orthodox churches are, if I understand correctly, national. That there is a Greek Orthodox Church, a Serb, and so on., And that of Constantinople, and 'only first among equals. During titismo the Macedonian church and 'declared independent from Serbia, the latter chose not to make too many stories at the time because' given the time it was better for any church to keep a low profile. Finished
communism, dissolved the then Yugoslavia, the issue began to heat up immediately. Currently in Macedonia are Macedonian Orthodox Church and the Serbian Orthodox Church in Macedonia, the latter largely minority, and both Serbia and Macedonia are exploiting the business in key nationalism.
But apart from that, economic ties are very close (which has meant 'that the embargo on Serbia has also hit hard in Macedonia that had nothing to do) and the question of recognition of Kosovo has further approached the two countries.
Macedonia and USA
Gia 'I said the matter of the invitation to join NATO, advocated by the United States. The U.S. has however already 'very strategic bases in Macedonia.
E 'currently under construction on a ridiculously huge portion of the hill looming over the city 'of Skopje, a new American embassy . It 's so huge and bunkeriforme that you can not' help but think that it resembles mica in an embassy, but rather to a military base.
The old U.S. embassy and 'still in use. It looks like an embassy classical, apart from the ' massive deployment of security measures .
countries that are sympathetic to the Macedonian
In general, the criterion that a country is sympathetic to the Macedonian and 'that no boundaries. For example, do not have anything to say about the Bosnians.
Also, surprisingly, have sympathy for Turkey. And that although their heroes the past have given their lives to get rid of them, and repression has been tough, and in every church we are told that the Turks were great persecutors of Christians (in various places but I read that the Turks were so tolerant of Orthodox Christians We also profit from, and that the relatively small portion of converts to Islam did so because 'what' guaranteed tax benefits and opportunities' career in the state apparatus, but maybe it's different historical moments, and we know that the memory history of the people and 'individually selective).
Kemal Ataturk and 'born in Bitola, in Macedonia, a city' that is still 'very proud of what' and honored him with a museum.
Ali Pasha Mosque in Skopje, and 'now Turks in restructuring funds, it said the billboard contract.
as I know there 'a significant Turkish minority in Macedonia, unlike in Bulgaria where the taxi driver complained of the existence of this region of the country where all were Turks with Bulgarian passport, but Turks (do not remember how had come to talk about what '). Distracted for a moment I thought it was strange that no one could think of a very simple solution: restore the region to Turkey. Then I remembered that probably when we talk about these things than you have in mind another simple solution in principle, that 'owning the land and expel its inhabitants.
The hero of the Macedonian
In a church in the center of Skopje, the remains of Gotse Delchev , which 'is a small museum dedicated to explaining the deeds. (Note: Now I learn from Wikipedia that the Bulgarians consider them a patriot, and that in fact the question is not 'even so' farfetched as it sounds.)
Despite the emphatic tone of the panels of this museum, I understand that the act more 'heroic and significant that he made before he died as a turd in a gun battle with police and' was as follows: it has kidnapped an American missionary.
The strange civil war
In 90s, the great Macedonian film "Before the Rain (Milcho Manchevski) made it clear that the next ethnic civil war in the Balkans could have been in Macedonia between Macedonians and Albanians in Macedonia as such.
In practice there is not a war 'never was. But they will tell you all, there 'was something.
What? On this everyone agrees: no one knows what happened.
Some people have died, no one knows how many. There were agreements that have made a large portion of the country officially bilingual, and have given much power to political parties representing the community 'Albanian, complete with obligatory representation in the government and veto power.
(Note: if you think this is anti-democratic, and of course as' unanimous opinion of all the Macedonian ethnic Macedonian, try to reflect on the fact that confiscation artificially representativeness' of a minority may be the only sensible solution when the majority can 'really be tempted to do more openly against the minority. Mental exercise: if it had existed in Weimar Germany a similar system, with the Jewish side with veto power, the alliance of the National Socialist Party with the conservatives and the nationalists could not have been born and Hitler did not take the power so 'easily.)
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