US interference? THE INCREDIBLE MAKEOVER OF MALESKI: from Serboman to Bulgaroman by Sasha Uzunov To fully understand the paradox of Macedonia and its culture and the impact of various foreign colonial occupations: we need not look any further than ex Macedonian Foreign Minister Denko Maleski’s incredible transformation from one extreme to another: going from being […]
by Sasha Uzunov The European Union has broken a 2-year vow of media silence on the touchy issue of why it supports Albanian Neo-Nazi extremists in Macedonia, in particular, the DUI nationalist party After the initial refusal of the European Union’s Ambassador to Macedonia, Samuel Zbogar, and high ranking mandarins Johannes Hahn and Frederica Mogherini […]
by Sasha Uzunov A newly declassified Australian Foreign Affairs file, released by the National Archives of Australia, reveals the intimate level of complicity between leading Australian diplomats and Indonesian officials in presenting the brutal 1975 Indonesian invasion and takeover of former Portuguese colony, East Timor, in a more positive light. Australian diplomats were involved in […]
By Sasha Uzunov One of the consequences of Macedonia being forced to join NATO by hook or by crook has been the recent emergence of anti-Semitism, which has been rare if not existent. Add to this erasing Macedonian identity by the US in order to lower enough Greek and Bulgarian opposition in order to […]
Canada’s Foreign Minister François-Philippe Champagne has been alerted to the possibility that Macedonia could send an Ambassador, Mr Agron Buxhaku who has links to Albanian Neo-Nazi extremists, to his country but a Ministry spokeswoman says Mr Champagne won’t comment. ‘We politely decline your request for an interview at this time,” said Ms Krystyna Dodds of […]
Australian prison authorities have ruled out a media request to interview convicted Australian Albanian jihadist terrorist Sevdet Besim, serving a 14 year stretch for attempting to kill a police officer and attack Australia’s ANZAC Day march in Melbourne in 2015. I contacted Corrections Victoria (part of the Victorian Justice Department), which runs the prison system […]
Numbers low for Tanec Melbourne leg. by Sasha Uzunov Ms Di Rolle, a media spokeswoman for the Melbourne Recital Centre has confirmed that a planned matinee performance of Tanec was cancelled but the evening session went ahead last Sunday. Tanec, a Macedonian folkloric group from Macedonia, is on a controversial tour of Australia. […]
-Confusing signals from Paris or not? by Sasha Uzunov France’s President Emmanuel Macron threw a spanner in the works, so we are led to believe, in Macedonia’s Prime Minister Zoran Zaev’s plans to begin his country’s entry into the European Union. President Macron blocked Macedonia’s EU ascendancy talks. The Zaev government had talked up […]
Declassified Australian Prime Minister’s file on Australian-Macedonian relations (1995-2002). by Sasha Uzunov A newly declassified official file reveals Australia’s duplicitous role in the Macedonia issue and strong support for the Greek position over the long-running dispute engineered by Greece in the first place. With the collapse of Yugoslavia in 1991, the Republic of Macedonia declared […]
by Sasha Uzunov Anyone facing criminal charges or under arrest or being investigated has the right to a presumption of innocence. Katica Janeva, the head of Macedonia’s much-vaunted but controversial corruption-fighting unit, the Special Prosecutor’s Office (SJO) has been taken into custody by the authorities in relation to an extortion racket involving a crossdresser […]
