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Mediation Unknown To Macedonians Skopje Ballin and Manevski The practice of mediation as a way of avoiding more expensive and sometimes painstakingly long count procedures is still not well known in Macedonia, the visiting Dutch Justice Minister Ernst Hirsch Ballin and his Macedonian host Mihajlo Manevski agreed on Monday.

Yaron Shani and Scandar Copti's dynamic debut feature Ajami and Calin Netzer's Romanian drama Medal Of Honour took the top prizes at the 50th Thessaloniki International Film Festival in Greece on November 22.

The 50th Thessaloniki International Film Festival has wound up after ten days of screenings that had been threatened by a boycott. The theme this year, at what is the biggest event of its kind in the Balkans, was the role of cinema in society. The festival winners certainly had something to say.

For certain areas of the Greek mainland and many of the islands the names of some fifteen pre-Greek peoples are preserved in ancient traditions, together with a number of other references; information of this quantity or importance is wanting in the case of the inhabitants of Macedonia, however, not only for the period prior to the advent of the Proto-Greeks, but even before the end of the Bronze Age.

Serbian foreign minister Vuk Jeremic has expressed understanding for Greece's position in the dispute between Athens and Skopje about the use of the name Macedonia, media in Skopje reported.

Israeli-German co-production "Ajami" won the $60,000 top prize, the Golden Alexander for best feature at the Nov. 22 closing of the 50th Thessaloniki Film Festival. It also picked up $6,000 in a public choice award.

As our soldiers penetrate the heart of Taliban territory in South Waziristan, they displace both innocent civilians and their targets themselves.

A cordon of special police forces stands in guard in front of Greek Liason Office during the press conference of united NGO's, held as a protest against Greek policy objecting Macedonian constitutional name, Skopje, 07 April 2008.

Macedonia Troubled by Serbiaa oeNamea Statement Skopje, Belgrade Tadic [left], Ivanov [Right] at the funeral, photo by FoNet Serbia's president Boris Tadic late Thursday sought to smooth ruffled feathers, after his foreign minister Vuk Jeremic said his country supports Greece's position in the 18-year name row between Skopjeand Athens.

The Film Fund of FYROM which operates with close cooperation and support from the Government of FYROM, pseudo academics and lobbyists have been dispatched around the world as part of a propagandistic push to wrest the historical name of Macedonia away from the indigenous Macedonians of Greece who can link to it in every way, in order to fulfill territorial claims and push an irredentist agenda.

The struggle for the leadership of the main opposition New Democracy party, ahead of the election for a new party leader on November 29, reached new heights on Friday with speeches by the three contestants, former foreign minister Dora Bakoyannis, Antonis Samaras and Panayiotis Psomiadis, in Athens and the northern city of Thessaloniki.

Timeline of ancient Greek coins and events. Historical events and eras. Numismatic events.

At monasteries on Mount Athos in northern Greece, you wake in the night to the sound of Greek Orthodox monks chanting Byzantine prayers.

Russia has agreed FYRMacedonia to obtain highest support from Gazprom in the execution of this vital project, stated Stavreski, who together with his Russian counterpart Alexei Kudrin harmonized the text of the document.

Greece – and Greek Prime Minister George Papandreou – has made a specific new proposal for the promotion of the EU accession course of the Western Balkan region. We are talking about a date on which we would like to see the European integration of all of the countries of the Western Balkans completed. The date we have chosen is 2014.

Helmer-scribe Ivan Marinovic's "Pasqua," a Slovene, Czech and Montenegro co-production, has won the $15,000 Crossroads Co-Production Forum award at the Thessaloniki Film Festival in Greece.

The FBI says that Kujtim "Timmy" Lika, an ethnic Albanian illegal immigrant from the former Yugoslavian republic of Macedonia, saw the United States as a land of infinite opportunity, and didn't mind breaking the law to achieve his goals. The former gymnast is alleged to have imported everything from cocaine to steroids to bootleg sneakers.

Skopje A 32-years old man who died on Wednesday afternoon is the first swine flu victim in Macedonia, the Health Minister Bujar Osmani confirmed.

Alternate Foreign Minister Dimitris Droutsas stressed in Belgrade on Wednesday, on the first stop in his tour of the Western Balkans, the Greek government's will to return as a "dynamic protagonist in the Balkans", with the first aim being the promotion of the European course of the countries in the region.

Bojana Barlovac Skopje 21 November 2009 Sinisa-Jakov Marusic Todor Petrov A string of protest rallies will be staged in Macedonia and abroad in a bid to have the talks with Greece suspended, the so-called resistance movement against changing the state name of Macedonia said.