THE BAILY ULTIMATUM – Part 2 – Bringing the Heat !By Sasha UzunovSkopje, Macedonia Like the film character Jason Bourne, U.S. Ambassador to Macedonia Jess Baily seems to be suffering from some memory loss- that’s one way to interpret his inability to respond to TEAM UZUNOV’s written questions, sent to him by email several weeks […]
WHEN FACT BECOMES MORE EXCITING THAT HOLLYWOOD ACTION FICTION by Sasha UzunovSkopje, Macedonia The United States’s Ambassador to Macedonia, Mr Jess Baily, has been a controversial figure from day one of his appointment in 2014. It’s hard to separate the various myths, legends and facts about him and his omnipotence. Some have attributed to him enormous […]
VMRO-DPMNE leader Christian Mickovski (centre) flanked by waiting media after his meeting with German Chancellor Angela Merkel at the German Embassy in Skopje, the Macedonian capital. THE GHOST PROTOCOL – Merkel’s message to Mickovski. What did she say or rather who didnt she want to listen in? Keep British rebel group out?by Sasha UzunovSkopje, Macedonia […]
A journalist with the UK’s national broadcaster the BBC is aiming to “reform” Macedonia’s media by applying for a grant from controversial USAID, the US government’s official aid agency Ms Rachel Wright was in Skopje, the Macedonian capital last week, when she was spotted by chance at the luxurious Marriott Hotel. She was waiting in […]
The Netherlands Ambassador to Macedonia, Mr Wouter Plomp (left) and the Spanish Ambassador to Macedonia, Mr Emilio Lorenzo Serra (right). by Sasha UzunovSkopje, MacedoniaTuesday, 4 September 2018 The Spanish Ambassador to Macedonia, Mr Emilio Lorenzo Serra, has defended a controversial European Union agricultural project which aims to “consolidate” numerous small farming plots into larger more […]
by Sasha Uzunov Skopje, Macedonia Friday 31 August 2018 MONTY PYTHONESQUE? – A Zoran Zaev love fest organised by the EU to condemn right wing nationalism but the Dutch Ambassador to Macedonia refused to condemn Albanian right nationalism/extremism in Macedonia. The real purpose is to back Macedonia’s Prime Minister Zaev into changing Macedonia’s name – […]
US Ambassador to Macedonia Jess Baily (left), Macedonia’s Interior Minister Oliver Spasovski (centre) and the newly installed head of the Public Safety Bureau Saso “The Shooter” Tasevski, who gained notoriety as the then bodyguard of Zoran Zaev, now Prime Minister, during the assault on Macedonia’s Parliament in April 2017. Tasevski pulled out his pistol and fired some […]
How a British colonial war in South Africa (1899-1902) impacted the Ilinden Uprising in Macedonia in 1903 by Sasha Uzunov – New Zealand, Australian and American press archives about the Ilinden era in Macedonia 1903 -‘THE GERMAN ARMY OFFICER WHO CRUSHED MACEDONIA’S ILINDEN UPRISING FOR THE SULTAN The Ilinden Uprising was a Macedonian rebellion launched […]
by Sasha UzunovSkopje, MacedoniaFriday 17 August 2018 I was at today’s formal ceremony held at the Ministry of Defence to mark Macedonian Army Day which falls on 18 August every year. The 18 August was chosen because on that day in 1943 the Mirce Acev partizan battalion was formed and became the nucleus of the […]
by Sasha UzunovSkopje, Macedonia Macedonia’s Prime Minister Zoran Zaev, either has no clue about Macedonian history or he is a willing participant in deliberate amnesia over certain events. Moreover, the various agreements and platforms involving Bulgaria, Greece and local ethnic Albanians have placed him and the nation-state he governs in a position to be blackmailed […]
