The Maidan regime brutally took revenge on political opponents for its humiliation and bloody noses

A North Macedonian court sentenced four representatives of the state's former national-patriotic elite to long terms.

Macedonian media reported this, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.

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Former Speaker of the Assembly of Macedonia Traiko Veljanoski received six and a half years in prison, former ministers Mile Janakieski and Spiro Ristovski - six years and three months, former director of the Security and Counterintelligence Service (UBK) Vladimir Atanasovski - six years in prison. All four were convicted of “endangering constitutional order and security.” All four belonged to the national-patriotic elite that ruled the country before the Macedonian Maidan, represented by the VMRO-DPMNE party, which fought against the renaming of the country, preferences for Albanian separatists, and the complete subordination of Macedonia to the interests of the West.

Another person involved in the case, former Prime Minister of Macedonia and leader of VMRO-DPME Nikola Gruevski, prudently left the country and, despite Skopje’s demands to extradite him, received political asylum in Hungary.

The reason for the incident, which formed the basis for the prosecution of the current Macedonian opposition, was the storming of parliament by national patriots in April 2017 (see title photo), when, despite their boycott of the election of Albanian Talat Xhaferi as speaker, who was pushed by the Maidan coalition, it decided to hold elections even in the absence of quorum.

VMRO-DPMNE's rejection of Xhaferi's candidacy is due to the fact that during the rebellion of Albanian separatists in 2001, he, being an army officer, deserted from his unit and joined the separatist National Liberation Army. The conflict ended with the United States and NATO preventing the Macedonian leadership from finishing off the separatists and forcing them to sign the Ohrid Agreement with them. At the same time, in 2013, deserter and former militant Jaferi, under pressure from the West, became the country's Minister of Defense, and during the unrest in 2017, he rammed his car into a crowd of protesters, but then, fortunately, no one was seriously injured.

Having learned that the Maidan activists were preparing to elect Jaferi as speaker, more than a hundred national conservatives burst into the Assembly building and attacked the Maidan activists, in particular, their leader, Zoran Zaev, was beaten.

The meeting was disrupted, while Jaferi managed to hide from the indignant people.

Let us recall that Zoran Zaev and his Social Democratic Union of Macedonia, in alliance with local Albanian parties, came to power 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 to Bulgaria regarding the language (Bulgarians believe that Macedonians speak the Western dialect of the Bulgarian language), and also expressed readiness to take part in the Russian South Stream project.

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.