Serbian language returns to schools in North Macedonia
Having not received EU membership, the Maidan Prime Minister of North Macedonia Zoran Zaev, in defiance of his nationalist opponents, decided to return the Serbian language to the country’s secondary education.
This was reported by MIA, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
Prime Minister of North Macedonia Zoran Zaev congratulated the country's Serbian minority on the day of St. Sava, especially revered by the Serbs, and announced the return of the Serbian language as an optional subject in schools.
“We will return the Serbian language to the curriculum for grades three to six, while the curricula for students in grades seven, eight and nine are currently undergoing a harmonization process,” Zaev said, recalling that his opponents from the right-wing conservative VMRO -DPMNE removed the optional Serbian language from the school curriculum in 2007.
On his Facebook page, Zaev also noted that “together with our Serbian fellow citizens, we are developing traditionally good relations with the Republic of Serbia.” He also reported that the construction of a Serbian cultural center is being completed in the municipality of Centar. At the same time, construction of a Macedonian cultural center will begin in Serbia this year.
It should be noted that the Maidan regime of Zoran Zaev, which had previously relied on an alliance with the Albanians, after not receiving the opportunity to join the EU due to Albania’s position, partly adopted a multi-vector position. In particular, Skopje in recent years has begun to turn towards Serbia, something that the right-wing conservative regime of VMRO-DPMNE, overthrown by the Maidanists, had previously done. At the same time, the conservatives managed to revise the general history, presenting the Yugoslav (Serbian) historical period in gloomy tones, and also subjecting the SOC to harsh persecution to please the Macedonian schismatics.
During Macedonia's time as part of Yugoslavia, the Serbo-Croatian state language was a compulsory subject in secondary schools.
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