Topic: Skopje

More than 20 years after much of Eastern Europe moved to cleanse public life of agents, informers and other partisans of the Communist system...
The Decani Monastery Relief Fund raises money to help rebuild Kosovo. Denver, CO (PRWEB) December 17, 2011 . . Even as national borders in the...

No Balkan turbo folk in Macedonia public buses

Public transport bus drivers in Macedonia's capital have been asked to replace turbo folk melodies popular throughout the Balkans with classical tunes and easy listening music, officials said Friday.After numerous passenger complaints, managers of Skopje's public transport company JSP ...

Macedonian bus drivers told to turn off turbofolk

SKOPJE (Reuters) - Deluged with complaints, the Macedonian capital Skopje has told bus drivers to turn off the thumping beats and folk melodies of Balkan turbofolk and commissioned some musical alternatives.The mesmerizing turbofolk music genre is a favorite of bored bus drivers ...

US urges Greece, Macedonia to resolve name row

US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has urged Greece and Macedonia to resolve a long-standing name row that has undermined relations and blocks Skopje's EU and NATO entry bids."We have made it very clear that we support the negotiations that ...
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Macedonia on Tuesday unveiled a giant statue of Alexander the Great, in a ceremony likely to provoke anger in neighbouring Greece which has blocked Skopje's bid to join the EU and NATO over a name row.Several hundred people gathered to ...

Macedonia erects Alexander The Great statue

SKOPJE (Reuters) - Macedonia erected on Tuesday a giant bronze statue of Alexander the Great, further inflaming a long-running row with neighboring Greece that is blocking the country's bid for membership of the European Union and NATO.Cranes hoisted the 40-tonne, 11-meter-high ...

Skopje's revamp stirs up controversy

It already puzzles many at home but Skopje's high-priced makeover of its drab communist skyline has now infuriated neighbouring Greece with the arrival this week of a huge statue resembling Alexander the Great.The massive equestrian bronze, to rise 12.5 ...

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