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December 14, 2011
United "Macedonian" Diaspora´s recent underhanded vitriolic attack against anything and everything Greek, has raised questions as to the content of UMD´s accusations [1]. The article appeared on the National Post, which was more than happy to print trash without checking facts against tr...
December 07, 2011
Yesterday the International Court of Justice (ICJ) handed down its verdict regarding an application by the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia (FYROM) to establish that Greece breached the Interim Accord of 13 September 1995, in response to which Greece cross-claimed that FYROM had previously brea...
September 11, 2011
Question: "If someone said of Slavic Macedonians that they were evil abstractions or freaks of nature, you would agree with me that is something that would hold Slavic Macedonians up to ridicule or contempt?"
Answer: "Yes."
Question: "Do you agree with me that if an article is written in Hobar...
September 08, 2011
The Australian Macedonian Advisory Council (AMAC) would like to express its disappointment at the decision of VCAT Member Noreen Megay to dismiss AMAC´s racial vilification complaint against the ´Australian Macedonian (sic) Weekly´ (AMW).
Last week Ms. Megay handed down her judgment on the matte...
August 25, 2011
In the secluded Byzantine monastery of Philanthropinon, which is perched mutely on a small hill on the island of Lake Pamvotis in Ioannina, counting both the vicissitudes of time and nature, there is a most singular iconographic depiction. For once one enters the exonarthex and casts their eyes to t...
August 15, 2011
The racial vilification hearing which began on Wednesday morning at the Victorian Civil and Administrative Tribunal (VCAT), and in which the Australian Macedonian Advisory Council (AMAC) was the complainant, came to a close yesterday.
Tribunal Member Noreen Megay said she imagined it would come a...
July 26, 2011
The FYROM (Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia) lobby in the US been irked by the
content of a Bill which was introduced to the U.S House of Representatives by the House
Committee on Foreign Affairs.
The Foreign Relations Authorization Act, Fiscal Year 2012 (H.R. 2583) has proposed a
limitat...
July 18, 2011
In recent years the nature of the document that was presented to the British Parliament in 1816, which authorised Lord Elgin to study and copy the ancient Greek sculptures on the Acropolis of Athens, has been investigated. It is clear that it was not, as has so often been claimed, a ´firman´ from th...
July 11, 2011
With the collapse of communism in Eastern Europe, the ruling ideology of Marxism-Leninism was replaced by different ideological forces. One of them was nationalism. In FYROM, gradually and with the "withdrawal" of the Socialists in the various state power positions, the far right through the VMRO be...
July 11, 2011
The Australian Macedonian Advisory Council (AMAC) regrets the recent decision of the newly re-elected FYROM (Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia) government to raise a bronze statue of Alexander the Great, in the main square in Skopje on 14th June 2011. This was viewed as a clear provocation that ...
July 07, 2011
According to Article 2 of UNESCO´s Universal Declaration on Cultural Diversity, "it is essential to ensure harmonious interaction among people and groups with plural, varied and dynamic cultural identities".
5 million people live in the modern region of Macedonia, and more than half of the...
July 04, 2011
By Marcus A. Templar
In my essay "Skopje Contributes to its Own Instability" [1] I had argued that the problem in the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia (the FYROM) is the Slavic majority of the country that monopolizes the government and all institutions, disregarding its 35% minority of Alba...
July 01, 2011
The Australian Macedonian Advisory Council (AMAC) has exclusively interviewed Prof. Marcus Templar, an expert on issues relating to the region of Macedonia and the Balkans at large.
AMAC: Professor Templar, last year, in October 2010, you presented a number of lectures across Australia on the Ma...
May 24, 2011
Thessaloniki was a princess; daughter of King Philip II, half sister of Alexander the Great. She was given this name because she was born on the day of the Macedonian victory at the Battle of Crocus Field. Her name literally translates to "Thessalian Victory", in Greek. The city of Thessaloniki, tod...
May 11, 2011
It has been drawn to my attention that in a recent publication by the United Macedonian Diaspora (a lovely Greek word) an attack has been made on what I have written about the erection of a statue of Alexander the Great in Skopje. I have also received a number of e-mails on this subject, some applau...
May 02, 2011
Last year I learned that a statue of Alexander the Great was to be erected in Skopje. I knew enough about modern history to be sure that the choice of this subject was not simply, as in some places (for example in Edinburgh), the result of a desire to commemorate a heroic figure of the past. I reali...
April 10, 2011
FYROM´s claim is beyond the Court´s jurisdiction as established by Article 21, paragraph 2, of the Interim Accord, whether it is interpreted, as the FYROM originally proposed, as precluding any case which concerns - "directly or indirectly" the name issue, or whether, as the FYROM alternatively prop...
March 23, 2011
In the years of communism in the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (SFRJ) the newly formed "Macedonian" state enjoyed privileges that others could not. Although other republics were being encouraged to develop industrial economies, the "Socialist Republic of Macedonia," was for all practical...
March 11, 2011
Way back in 1960, just around the time when the leader of the USSR Nikita Khrushchev suggested to the paranoid leader of Stalinist Albania Enver Hoxha that autonomy be granted to Northern Epirus, as the majority population in this region along the border with Greece, was of ethnic Greek origin, Ge...
March 03, 2011
In response to the article titled: "Will PM Gillard Deliver Foreign Policy Innovation on Macedonia?" (http://www.onlineopinion.com.au/view.asp?article=11666) - as it stands - the dispute mentioned is an ongoing disagreement between Greece and the neighbouring Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia (F...
February 10, 2011
The subject of historical truth is something that all human beings should cherish even when the truth hurts. Those unqualified in historical matters (academics included), driven by their fear of being wrong, rather than argue those questions that are relevant to the academic discussion, bring into ...
February 03, 2011
Following the publication of the edited version of the after-dinner talk that I gave in October, a formal complaint was made to my employer (to which a polite reply was made, stressing the importance of academic freedom), and I received an e-mailed message from the United Macedonian Diaspora (which ...
December 28, 2010
THE LOBOTOMY OF LIBERTY IN FYROM
Nikola Gruevski, the Prime Minister of Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia (FYROM) demonstrated, encouraged by absence of proper, tough approach from legitimate factors that represent values of European civilization, by far the most extreme form of his crackdown...
December 05, 2010
In response to the article posted by the UMD (United Macedonian Diaspora) (http://umdiaspora.org/content/view/524/1) and written by a leading member of the UMD´s operations in Australia, Dame Krcoski:
The Australian Macedonian Advisory Council (AMAC) is disappointed, but not surprised at the atta...
November 30, 2010
The following classified information was released by Wikileaks yesterday regarding the Macedonian dispute between Greece and the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia (FYROM) (translated from http://www.protothema.gr/politics/article/?aid=93125):
"Different methods used to convince the Greek side t...
November 29, 2010
FYROM (Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia) Prime Minister Nikola Gruevski´s hardline policy to his country´s naming dispute with Greece has once again caused FYROM to not be invited to take part in the latest NATO summit (where new members are then invited to join the Alliance) which took place o...
November 28, 2010
John Melville-Jones, an Associate Professor in Classics and Ancient History at the University of Western Australia, kindly accepted our invitation to come to Melbourne and give 5 insightful talks on Ancient and Byzantine Macedonian history and on today´s Macedonian issue.
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October 14, 2010
EXPOSED - the so-called ´Australia-Greece Advisory Council´ is an
internet façade created by Slav-Macedonians
As noted in an AMAC´s press release on 7 October, a group calling itself the
"Australia-Greece Advisory Council (AGAC)" sent out a mass email condemning a
lecture by ...
September 18, 2010
An exciting new exhibition titled 'The Immortal Alexander the Great' will be exhibited in the Hermitage Amsterdam from 18 September 2010 until 18 March 2011. Spanning a period of almost 2500 years, over 350 masterpieces will be exhibited, exploring Alexander the Great's journey to the East, and t...
September 08, 2010
The Australian Macedonian Advisory Council (AMAC) is pleased to announce it has arranged for a series of lectures concerning Macedonian history to be given across Australia by two highly esteemed scholars.
The first of those scholars is Professor John Melville-Jones of the University of Western A...
August 23, 2010
The Australian ´Macedonian´ Human Rights committee (AMHRC) (based in Melbourne, Australia) and the ´Macedonian´ Human Rights Movement International (MHRMI) (based in Toronto, Canada) have demanded (August 19, 2010) an end to all name negotiations with Greece. They have releas...
August 05, 2010
Newspaper 'Australian Macedonian Weekly' has continued its history of falsifying news by misrepresenting the policy of the Australian Greens Party in relation to the FYROM naming dispute.
July 05, 2010
Justice Catherine Branson QC of the Australian Human Rights Commission dismissed a claim of racial vilification against South Australian Premier Mike Rann as ´lacking in substance´.
The Australian Macedonian Human Rights Committee, a Slav-Macedonian lobby group, brought the claim against Ran...
June 01, 2010
This article is a response to Risto Stefov´s article "Ancient versus Slav controversy"
http://www.americanchronicle.com/articles/view/157952
Anyone even slightly acquainted with ancient history would feel at least a major astonishment reading Mr. Stefov´s illusionary delirium and more...
May 17, 2010
This article is a response to Risto Stefov´s article "Polyaenus – 2nd Century Macedonian Rhetorician":
http://www.americanchronicle.com/articles/view/154104
There is evident throughout Mr. Stefov´s article a miserable persistence to pose as heir and direct descendand of ancient Ma...
May 13, 2010
Citizens that live in a country that is a member state of the European Union enjoy the benefits of a single market which provides for the free movement of people, goods, services and capital. This allows for the ability to study, work, travel and reside permanently in any other EU member state.
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May 06, 2010
This article is a response to two articles from Risto Stefov, the first being "Greeks and identity theft"
http://www.americanchronicle.com/articles/view/151855
and the second one "How Macedonia became Greek, Serbian and Bulgarian"
http://www.americanchronicle.com/articles/view/149197
If on...
May 05, 2010
The ´Macedonian´ Human Rights Movement International (MHRMI) (based in Toronto, Canada) and the Australian ´Macedonian´ Human Rights committee (AMHRC) (based in Melbourne, Australia) have apparently reiterated (April 29, 2010) their call for the Former Yugoslav Republic of Ma...
April 06, 2010
It has recently come to our attention that MINA (Macedonian International News Agency - the "news" agency serving Skopje´s VMRO government line and based in the United Kingdom) yet again published false information about Greece on its website on March 25, 2010; the day of Greek Independence. Taking ...
April 01, 2010
Prime Minister of FYROM (Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia) and leader of the VMRO-DPMNE Mr. Nikola Gruevski is not planning on giving up on the idea to be chief editor of all media in FYROM anytime soon. If his mission is successful he will control all media in the FYROM making it very difficul...
March 15, 2010
PELLA, Macedonia, Greece – The archaeological site in Pella has acquired a new museum covering an area of 6,000 square metres, which opened its doors to the public for the first time last week. Situated in the northeast corner of the site, near the contemporary town of Pella, the museum represents t...
March 08, 2010
The MPO ('Macedonian´ Patriotic Organisation) which is the oldest and one of the largest FYROM organizations operating in the USA and Canada, has been removed from the "Macedonian-American 2010 Census Project", due to the MPO's stance on the 'Macedonian' ethnicity. The MPO published a census in its ...
March 03, 2010
In Business Law, the principle nemo dat quod non habet means that no one may give what one does not have; nevertheless, this principle goes a little further. This rule stays valid regarding stolen goods, even if the bona fide purchaser does not know that the seller has no right to claim ownership o...
February 11, 2010
According to an article published in the Age, Greece is amongst the countries that is positively inclined towards voting in favour of Australia for a temporary seat on the UN Security Council for the period 2013-2014. The Security Council has 5 permanent members (USA, Britain, France, China and Russ...
January 05, 2010
Recently, Mr. Nijazi Muhamedi (President of the editorial board of the new 'fictional' Albanian Encyclopedia) stated: "The ancient warrior king Alexander the Great, was neither Greek, nor Macedonian, but Albanian" (http://www.balkaninsight.com/en/main/news/24745/). His book 'Albanian Macedonia', was...
December 30, 2009
"We live an era of strange and funny debates about ancient Macedonians and Slavs", Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia (FYROM) Prime Minister Nikola Gruevski said today at a ceremony in Skopje on the archaeological finds discovered this year in FYROM.
According to Gruevski, in the region where ...
December 23, 2009
The following new UKTV documentary is about Alexander The Great, the God King, from Macedonia, Greece. It is highly recommended for viewing, as (like all previous documentaries on Alexander) it depicts the life, culture and struggle of the Great Greek King and God..
Part 1:
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December 10, 2009
The European Union (EU) has deferred the decision to set a date for accession talks with the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia (FYROM) until 2010. A statement made by EU foreign ministers in Brussels said they would revisit the issue during the Spanish EU presidency, sometime between January 1 u...
December 09, 2009
The Australian Macedonian Advisory Council (AMAC) is appalled by the latest statements made from FYROM´s President Gjorge Ivanov. According to MINA news, President Ivanov controversially stated "We will not cave under any pressure to change our name or identity just to be a part of the European Unio...
November 27, 2009
Dear Editor,
We (The Australian Macedonian Advisory Council) are writing to you regarding two pages of your online encyclopedia, under the section "Countries of the world". As an Australian-Greek organization we are extremely disappointed with the sections aforementioned, as in the first article...
November 26, 2009
Dear Editor,
We are writing to you in regards to an article that was published in a recent issue of your prestigious magazine TIME, in a section called "Countries of the world - Greece". As an Australian-Greek organization we are extremely disappointed with the section aforementioned, as you inc...
Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia PM Gruevski Australian visit comes up short (Greece, Bulgaria)
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The first Macedonian newspaper ever was published in Vienna by the Macedonian brothers 'Poulios' from Siatista, Macedonia, Greece in 1790,it was called "Efimeris". The earliest Macedonian newspaper in Thessaloniki was the "Ermis" [Hermes] (1875), owned by the Garbola family of publishers, which circ...
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AUSTRALIAN MACEDONIAN ADVISORY COUNCIL
Representing the people from all over Macedonia: Florina, Grevena, Kastoria, Giannitsa, Serres, Veria, Edessa, Pella, Kilkis, Kavala, Drama, Thassos, Naousa,Kozani,Thessaloniki,Chalkidiki,Katerini; we the indigenous Macedonians, who our forefathers shed blood for Mother Hellas will never trade nor sell our legacy of our ancestors who were Greek & proud. We have had enough of FYROM lies and deceit, if FYROM cannot accept our name and deny as our birthright then all we can say to you Slav-Macedonians is two words 'MOLON LABE'! We are born Macedonians we will die Macedonians!
Proud indigenous Macedonians proud Greeks one people,one language,one culture,one country..
December 10, 2008
The Reality and the Weight of History:
Why the Greek People Cannot Easily Accept FYROM´s Claims
Aristide D. Caratzas
The dispute regarding the official name by which will be known the Former [Communist]
Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia (FYROM) has appeared to many policy makers from arcane ...
December 11, 2008
Private Property and Minority Rights
Aristide D. Caratzas*
A recent flare up near Loukovo, one of the towns in the predominantly ethnic Greek prov-ince of Cheimarra (Albanian, Himara) over questions of property rights suddenly raises questions about the nature and extent to which the Albanian ...
November 29, 2008
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December 05, 2008
The term clone is derived from κλών (klon), the Greek word for twig or branch, referring to the process whereby a new plant can be created from a twig.
"It was night when we entered Monastiri and night when we left...The inhabitants - the town is populated by Greeks - walk ab...
December 07, 2008
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When I was thirteen years old I asked my grandfather Constantine why he had joined the Greek andartes (freedom fighters) in Macedonia in 1904-1908 during the Macedonian Struggle and fought against the armed Slavic bands (komitadjides, committee me...
December 05, 2008
By Marcus A. Templar
National Defense Intelligence College
Regional Stability
Stability in a country can be the result of internal or external causes all of which
are sociologically rooted. Whether we classify stability as political, social, or
economic it undeniably contributes to a countr...
December 05, 2008
SENATE RESOLUTION 300—EXPRESSING THE SENSE OF THE SENATE THAT THE FORMER YUGOSLAV REPUBLIC OF MACEDONIA(FYROM) SHOULD STOP THE UTILIZATION OF MATERIALS THAT VIOLATE PROVISIONS
OF THE UNITED NATIONSBROKERED INTERIM AGREEMENT BETWEEN FYROM AND GREECE REGARDING ´´HOSTILE ACTIVITIES OR PROPAGANDA...
December 04, 2008
"The Role of Macedonia", in: R. H. Markham, "Tito's Imperial Communism", 1947
ONE of Marshal Tito's major innovations was the setting up of "Free Macedonia" as one of the independent states in Federative Yugoslavia. The five other constituent units are Serbia, Montenegro, Croatia, Slovenia, and ...
November 28, 2008
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November 27, 2008
Occupying the bigger part of northern Greece, Macedonia first appears on the historical scene as a geographical-political unit in the 5th century BC, when it extended from the upper waters of the Haliakmon and Mount Olympus to the river Strymon. In the following century it reached the banks of the N...
November 28, 2008
Extract from Handbook for the Diplomatic History of Europe, Asia, and Africa 1918.
1.MACEDONIA AND THE TREATY OF BERLIN.
Map of Bulgaria - in 1878 - borders after the peace of San Stefano (3rd March, 1878) and the Berlin congress (June, 1878).
The region known as Macedonia may be roug...
November 28, 2008
The battle of Marathon is one of history's most famous military engagements. It is also one of the earliest recorded battles. Their victory over the Persian invaders gave the fledgling Greek city states confidence in their ability to defend themselves and belief in their continued existence. Maratho...
November 28, 2008
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This is in reference to Slavmacedonian propagandists who persist in claiming the Greeks only recognized Macedonia as a province after 1988,again we Hellenes prove them wrong again & again...
The Balkan Wars of 1912-13 freed Macedonia from Ottoman suzeraint...
November 27, 2008
By Professor Paul Cartledge
Sparta, for better or worse, is a 'brand', not just a name. Whenever we casually drop into our everyday conversation the two little words 'spartan' and 'laconic', we are paying silent tribute to our Spartan cultural ancestors, continuing a tradition that descends from ...
November 25, 2008
Gettysburg and the unification of ancient Greece
The battle of Gettysburg was a turning point during the American Civil war. It marked the beginning of the end – and also the beginning of the United States of America that the world now knows today.
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November 25, 2008
INTRODUCTION
Many writers investigated the origin of the Macedonians in their own way and have, as a result, arrived at different conclusions, often in conflict with one another.' This subject is of vital significance to us, Macedonians, for we want to know whether or not our ancestors were Greek...
November 26, 2008
by Ruth G. Durlacher-Wolper
Over 500 years ago, Admiral Christophoros Columbus stepped upon the soil of San Salvador Island, Bahamas, in the New World, with the banner of the Royal
Standard of Spain flying in all its glory. The captains of La Nina and La Pinta
followed him off the La Santa...
November 24, 2008
When the enslaved Greeks uprised against the Ottoman yoke in southern Greece in 1821 it was impossible for the Macedonians to stay idle.They participated in this pan-Hellenic struggle for freedom uprising in two Macedonian regions,Emathia and Chalkidiki and despite the fact they couldn't achieve to ...
November 20, 2008
The first word "μολών" (molon), is the aorist active participle (masculine, nominative, singular) of the Greek verb "βλώσκω", meaning "having come". "Λαβέ" is the aorist active imperative (second person singular) of the verb ...
November 21, 2008
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November 20, 2008
In the following text I shall present the whole Herodotean testimony on the ancient Macedonian history. But before proceeding with the presentation I must clarify the four separate components of the ancient Macedonian history. These components can be seen as distinctions between the Macedonian Royal...
November 19, 2008
As we emphatically pointed out in our previous article, the art of commiting provocative falsification and blatant violation of the historical reality finds full use into the propaganda originating from the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia (FYROM). If we are looking for a pure sample of the dep...
November 18, 2008
The common definition of "taking text out of context" is to remove a passage from its surrounding matter in such a way as to distort its true meaning. In other words, a shorter extract or phrase is used purposedly in an attempt to represent the views of the person being quoted inaccurately. The latt...
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November 15, 2008
THE PROCLAMATION OF THE TEMPORARY GOVERNMENT OF MACEDONIA REQUESTING UNIFICATION WITH GREECE;
Rare Document of 1878 - Proclamation of the Temporary Government of Macedonia
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Again we address to all the propagandis...
November 16, 2008
The Former Yugoslav Republic Of Macedonia (FYROM) chief propagandist representing their diaspora community, Mr. Stefov (a.k.a Christos Stefou) continues to persist with his Ancient Macedonian non Hellenic ideology. Since it's been comprehensibly proved beyond doubt that today's citizens of Former Yu...
November 15, 2008
Again I ask the question if no Greeks lived in Macedonia why are all these people proclaiming Greek heritage back then?To all these FYROM(ians) that deny the truth and believe the psychologist & occasional sex therapist Dr. John Shea from Newcastle, Australia (they lie by referring to him as a histo...
November 13, 2008
This article is posted in reference to FYROM(ian) propagandists who claim no Greeks lived in the region of Macedonia before 1912. If no Greeks lived there, then how is it that these indigenous Macedonian fighters fought for unification with 'Mother Greece'?We have heroes who fought for Greece from S...
Greece and the Former Yugoslav Republic Of Macedonia Democracy - the sacking of Grigoris Vallianatos
November 14, 2008
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November 12, 2008
For more than 4,000 years Macedonia has been an intricate part of the history of the Greek people. Today, Macedonia is the largest and most populous region of Greece, having a population of 2.6 million, or 25% of the population of Greece.
Everyone knows that Alexander the Great and the ancient k...
November 13, 2008
Tuesday 11 November 2008, by Nicolas Mottas
Interview to Lambros Papantoniou, Correspondent in Washington D.C.
Q: What´s the message of the U.S. elections?
The electoral victory of my friend, Senator Barack Obama, is of great importance not only for America but for the whole world. As he hi...
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November 10, 2008
A Spartan princesss Cynisca broke the mould by winning a four horse chariot race in 396 BCE. English classicist, Paul Cartledge, introduces us to Cynisca of Sparta and offers us an insight to why she can be considered the first Greek female Olympic winner.
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Cynisca sounds li...
November 09, 2008
By Professor Paul Cartledge
Cambridge University
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Nation-state building in its most urgent form was a particularly prominent 19th-century phenomenon. Small proto-states then were seeking to get out from under the stifling embrace of the big empires of the day - whethe...
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November 05, 2008
Melbourne, Australia, 6th November, 2008
Senator Barack Obama
President-elect of the United States of America
House of the USA Senate
Washington DC
Dear Senator,
On behalf of the Australian Macedonian Advisory Council, I wish to extend to you our heartfelt congratulations on your elec...
November 03, 2008
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October 29, 2008
This is disputing Risto Stefov(a.k.a Christos Stefou) & Mr. J.S.Gandeto (birthname Grezlovski) absurd and falsified claims on Greece and Macedonia.
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A dispute is going on between Greece and the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia (FYROM) on the name "Macedonia,"which FYROM i...
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October 28, 2008
THE PRIDE OF OXI DAY
October 28th
The magnificent Greek holiday Oxi Day is celebrated every year in Greece on October 28th and mostly remembered for general Ioannis Metaxas' strong reply of 'oxi' (no) to Mussolini's request to allow Italian troops to come into Greece at the beginning of WW II. T...
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Diatribe is a weekly opinionative column by Dean Kalimniou, which is published in Melbourne's Neos Kosmos English Edition Newspaper. It deals generally with issues of interest to the Greek Community in Australia.
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