Macedonia and Bulgaria's long-simmering dispute over the Macedonian language is threatening to boil over again, just as Skopje nears a resolution to its dispute with Greece over the name "Macedonia." ...

NATO Secretary-General Lord George Robertson and European Union foreign policy and security chief Javier Solana travel to Skopje tomorrow in an apparent effort to rescue talks -- now in their 10th ...

A Professor at the Institute for the Macedonian Language in Skopje, Simona Gruevska Madgoska complains about the continued negligence of the language by the institutions of the Republic of Macedonia ...

‘Neither the Macedonian nationality is ours to give. And the very use of the word "allow" indicates the illusion of greatness that stems from your nationalism. People living in Northern Greece ...

Standard Macedonian was implemented as the official language of the Socialist Republic of Macedonia, part of the Yugoslav federation, in 1945. Most of its codification was formalised in this period.

Bulgaria’s Foreign Minister Georg Georgiev has firmly reiterated that the concepts of "Macedonian identity" and "Macedonian ...

Ethnic Albanian pupils in Macedonia have started the second semester of the 2009/10 school year with a boycott: They are refusing to take part in Macedonian language classes, which they say have been ...

Though many people seem to feel it's okay to say that Macedonian isn't really a language, it's just Bulgarian. Loring Danforth: Oh yeah and the Bulgarian argument that it's a dialect of Bulgarian.

Macedonia and Bulgaria's long-simmering dispute over the Macedonian language is threatening to boil over again, just as Skopje nears a resolution to its dispute with Greece over the name ...