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Macedonian Human Rights Review - Issue #18 - March 2014
April 3, 2014
In this edition of the MHR Review:
• The Good Neighbor – George Vlahov
• Venizelos’s Adventures – Dr. Chris Popov
• Early Elections in Macedonia – Dr. Vasko Nastevski
• Identity Politics – Tom Vangelovski
• Join the Macedonian Bone Marrow Drive
• Vinozhito & Elections – Dimitri Jovanov
• Greek Humanist Harassed by Racist – EHF
• OMO at the EFA Conference – Alexander Spassov
• The Poetry of Kocho Ratsin – Dr. Michael Seraphinoff
• An Interview with Simon Damevski – John Tsiglev
• Ottoman Macedonia & Greek Nationalism – Dr. Dimitar Vamvakovski
• Mladi Bilbili and Vinozhito on Tour in Australia
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When Will Macedonia Be Allowed to Compete in the Olympics?
Press Release
February 12, 2014
"The Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia" walked in the Winter Olympic opening ceremonies in Sochi, Russia among the other countries that start with
the letter "B" (The word "former" begins with "B" in Russian), and waving little flags that somewhat resemble the real Macedonian flag. It was changed in 1995
to appease Greece, the country that is trying to wipe it off the map. When the Olympics are hosted by English-speaking countries, "The Former Yugoslav Republic of
Macedonia" walks in with the "F"s. Or would it be more appropriate to walk in with the "T"s?
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Media coverage:
• makfax.com.mk
• grid.mk
• novini.mk
• hajdpark.mk
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MHRMI Condemns Greece’s Harassment of Human Rights Defender Panayote Dimitras
Press Release
January 31, 2014
In response to the International Secretariat of the World Organisation Against Torture request for urgent intervention, Macedonian Human Rights Movement International condemns the ongoing judicial harassment of human rights defender and Greek Helsinki Monitor Spokesperson, Panayote Dimitras.
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Macedonian Human Rights Review - Issue #17 - January 2014
January 30, 2014
In this edition of the MHR Review:
• Reflections on our Status – George Vlahov
• The Poetry of Mihail Rendzhov – Dr. Michael Seraphinoff
• The Australian Macedonian Drama Group – Jim Thomev
• Good Neighbourliness a la Bulgare – Dr. Chris Popov
• Forthcoming Young Bilbili and Human Rights Tour of Australia
• The Only Solution & Always Behind – George Papadakis
• “Celebrations” of the Council of Europe
• UN Hypocrisy – Bill Nicholov
• A Macedonian Revival – Tom Vangelovski
• Pre & Post Cold War Greece – Dr. Dimitar Ljorovski Vamvakovski
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Does the U.S. Ever Get its Foreign Policy Right?
Press Release
January 22, 2014
How many times has the United States, in its “noble” goal to “spread freedom and democracy throughout the world” chosen the wrong side in a dispute that it had no business getting involved with in the first place, and subsequently wreaked havoc for decades afterward?
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International Human Rights Day and the "Celebrations" of the Council of Europe
Press Release
December 10, 2013
The Council of Europe held an event on November 25, 2013 to “celebrate the 15th anniversary of the Framework Convention (for the Protection of National Minorities)”.
It would have been more appropriate to revisit the failures of the implementation of the Framework Convention. A perfect opportunity would have been the Advisory Committee’s third visit to Bulgaria, which took place from November 11-15, 2013. Bulgaria has ratified the agreement but is free to continue denying the existence of its Macedonian minority, execute state-sponsored discrimination and ignore various European Court of Human Rights rulings in favour of the Macedonian minority.
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MHRMI Meets with Macedonian Foreign Minister Nikola Poposki, Reiterates Demand that Macedonia End Name Negotiations
Press Release
November 21, 2013
On November 20, 2013, Macedonian Human Rights Movement International members met with Macedonian Foreign Minister Nikola Poposki during his official state visit to Canada and reiterated our demand that Macedonia immediately end the name negotiations.
MHRMI President Bill Nicholov and MHRMI member Mark Opashinov met with Minister Poposki, Macedonian Ambassador to Canada Ljuben Tevdovski and Consul General of the Republic of Macedonia to Canada, Dragan Gjurcevski.
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Media coverage:
• www.makfax.com.mk
• www.inpress.com.mk
• www.portal.com.mk
• www.tera.mk
• www.iris.mk
• www.lisica.mk
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The United Nations - Spreading Hypocrisy Throughout the World
Press Release
November 18, 2013
The United Nations General Assembly must realize the irony in recently electing, as it refers to it, the “Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia” as a member of the United Nations Human Rights Council for 2014-2016. In Macedonia, the UNHRC is getting a member-state that is incapable of defending its own most basic human right, that of self-identification, by continuing to participate in the ludicrous UN-sponsored name negotiations.
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Media coverage:
• www.kanal77.com.mk
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Macedonian Human Rights Review - Issue #16 - September 2013
November 4, 2013
In this edition of the MHR Review:
• The Uses and Abuses of Reason – Jim Thomev
• The Irredentism of the Clowns – George Papadakis
• Exclusive Interview with Pando Ashlakov – David Vitkov
• Kerim’s Erroneous Assumptions – Dr. Chris Popov
• Meeting with Australia’s Foreign Minister
• Book Update: The Greek Anti-Macedonian Struggle
• The Poetry of Blazhe Koneski – Dr. Michael Seraphinoff
• Ilinden in Ovchareni – Dimitri Jovanov
• Johnny Tsiglev’s Detsa Begaltsi Exhibition
• Productive AMHRC Conference on the Partition of Macedonia
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Macedonian Human Rights Review - Issue #15 - June 2013
July 01, 2013
In this edition of the MHR Review:
• Reeker Reeks and Racism in the US State Department Report – George Vlahov
• AMHRC, MHRMI and Vinozhito Condemn US State Department Report
• Letter to The Age – Dr. Chris Popov
• How does it Feel? – Jim Thomev
• The Poetry of Gane Todorovski – Dr. Michael Seraphinoff
• We want to Learn our Mother Tongue: Macedonian – Pando Ashklakov
• MHRMI and AMHRC Call on Ninitz to Resign
• Irreparable, Pathetic and Ridiculous – George N. Papadakis
• Euro MP or Anti-Macedonian Lobbyist? – Dr. Chris Popov
• NLA War Crimes – Tom Vangelovski
• The Annual Sandanski Memorial – Stojko Stojkov
• Congratulations to Nova Zora on its Third Anniversary
• Nova Zora Celebrates Three Years – Dimitri Jovanov
• Johnny Tsiglev’s Multi-Media Art Exhibition
• An International Scholarly Conference on the Partition of Macedonia
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AMHRC, MHRMI and Vinozhito Condemn the US State Department’s Negation of the Macedonian Minority in Greece
Press Release
April 26, 2013
This week the US State Department released its annual Country Reports on Human Rights Practices for 2012. In its report on Greece,
under the sub-heading ”National/Racial/ Ethnic Minorities”, the following was stated about the situation and treatment of the Macedonian minority:
“The government did not recognize the existence of a Slavic dialect, called “Macedonian” by its speakers; nevertheless, a small number of its
speakers identified themselves as “Macedonian,” a designation that generated strong opposition from other citizens."
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MHRMI and AMHRC Applaud the Macedonians in Greece and Bulgaria for Demanding Equitable Treatment for the Republic of Macedonia by the European Parliament
Press Release
April 24, 2013
MHRMI and AMHRC applaud our partners in the struggle for Macedonian human rights, Vinozhito and OMO "Ilinden" - PIRIN, for demanding equitable treatment for the Republic of Macedonia by the European Parliament.
According to the letter sent to the European Parliament by Vinozhito and OMO Ilinden PIRIN, "We, as representatives acting on behalf of members of the Macedonian communities, whose very existence is denied and actively negated by the authorities in Greece and Bulgaria, wish to express our deep dissatisfaction with a significant number of the amendments proposed by the Greek and Bulgarian MEPs, in regard to the progress report on the Republic of Macedonia – a country which the EU does not even have the decency to refer to by its official and democratically chosen name."
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MHRMI Meets with Macedonian President Ivanov, Reiterates Demand that Macedonia End Name Negotiations
Press Release
April 21, 2013
MHRMI President Bill Nicholov and MHRMI members Bill Pavlovski, Jovan Drenoski and Chris Balkos (Balkovski) met with President Ivanov,
Macedonian Ambassador to Canada Ljuben Tevdovski and Macedonian Member of Parliament for North America, Pavle Sazdov.
MHRMI called on the Macedonian government to expose Greece's blatant racism and true goals in initiating the nonsensical "name dispute"
- to eradicate the existence of Macedonia and Macedonians.
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ACT NOW: Contact your Member of Congress to Denounce the Name Negotiations!
Press Release
April 17, 2013
The recent proposal by UN mediator, Matthew Nimetz, that Macedonia change its name to "Upper Republic of Macedonia" in order to appease Greece and be "considered" for entry into the European Union and NATO highlights the urgent need for this appeal. The EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy, Catherine Ashton, also called on Macedonia to change its name and claimed, "...there is no other alternative, there is no other way forward. And to act sooner is better than later. This is the only way towards progress on your European path."
There is another way forward. Macedonia must stop negotiating its own name and stop begging to get into the European Union and NATO.
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MHRMI and AMHRC Call on Nimetz to Resign Post and to Denounce Name Negotiations
Press Release
April 16, 2013
MHRMI and AMHRC call on the current UN mediator, Matthew Nimetz, to publicly come to the same conclusion as his predecessor, resign his post and denounce the nonsensical name negotiations.
Macedonians worldwide are vehemently against the name negotiations and rightly so, as it is common sense to see that there is no "solution" when one country is being asked to change its name to appease another country's racist notion that it has no right to exist.
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