The Independent is trusted by Americans ... A small Balkan country is in state of crisis. In Macedonia, things are getting serious. If the country descends further in chaos – and events are ...

the capital of North Macedonia, a Balkan country born just 33 years ago as an independent state, is awash in history. A statue of Alexander the Great looms over the central square. One of his ...

The Greek prime minister has lost his right-wing coalition partner, Independent Greeks ... Alexander's birthplace is in Pella. The new state of Macedonia did not help matters when it named ...

The organization worked to establish Macedonia’s identity and territory within the Yugoslav federation and is considered the cornerstone of the Macedonian state. In the years immediately ...

After this declaration of independence, Turkey, Bulgaria, Slovenia, Croatia, Russia, and Bosnia and Herzegovina recognized Macedonia as an independent state. While Kiro Gligorov became the first ...

The new state of Macedonia did not help matters when it ... A nationalist party, Independent Greeks, may refuse to back the deal, but it is unlikely to put at risk a ruling coalition that it ...

However, five months into the independent probe ... other constituent republic of the old federal state of Yugoslavia. Just 10 years ago, Macedonia was poised to become a member of NATO and ...

SKOPJE (Reuters) - Macedonia's first democratically elected president, Kiro Gligorov, who helped steer the Balkan country's peaceful breakaway from Yugoslavia, has died aged 94, his office said on ...