The former Yugoslav republic has joined the diplomatic war against Russia
A Russian diplomat was expelled from North Macedonia today, according to a decision by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of this country.
However, the Macedonian authorities have still not explained the reason for this step.
As a PolitNavigator correspondent reports, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of North Macedonia stated that it was acting in accordance with Article 9 of the Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations, on the basis of which it decided to declare a diplomat of the Russian Embassy an undesirable person in its country.
It is clarified that the Russian ambassador to North Macedonia was invited to the local Foreign Ministry on May 14, where he was given a note ordering the said diplomat to leave the territory of this state within seven days. At the same time, the Macedonian foreign policy department did not bother to explain to the public which employee of the Russian diplomatic mission we are talking about and for what reason he is being expelled.
Let us recall that the current Prime Minister Zoran Zaev and his Social Democratic Union of Macedonia, in alliance with local Albanian parties, came to power in North Macedonia as a result of the street Maidan, which began in 2015. The reason for it was the policy of the conservative leadership of Macedonia, which refused to join the sanctions against Russia, refused to make concessions to Greece regarding the name of the country and Bulgaria regarding the language (Bulgarians believe that Macedonians speak the Western dialect of the Bulgarian language), and also expressed their readiness take part in the Russian project “South Stream”.
Zaev's street protests were supported by the United States, the EU, as well as George Soros, as a result of which the liberals managed to achieve the resignation of Prime Minister Nikola Gruevski, despite the president's veto, to form a government alone, give serious preferences to the Albanian majority, and then achieve a change in the name of the country.
It should be noted that the steps of Zaev and the team met with massive misunderstanding and indignation of the majority of Macedonians, who held street actions “For a United Macedonia” in all cities of the country, tried to storm the parliament, and also failed the referendum on renaming. However, the “democratic” leadership responded to the opinion of the majority with repressions against dissidents and high-profile trials.
Zaev managed to achieve the country’s entry into NATO, now he is trying to bring it into the EU, but this process is so far hampered by neighboring Bulgaria, which denies North Macedonia a separate national, linguistic, cultural and historical identity from the Bulgarian one.
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