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  THE PROFESSOR FROM PRILEP IS BEHIND BARS

The music professor from Prilep, Blaze Jordanovski, is sentenced to 6 years in jail. The judge Ljuben Binoski after a 3 day trial sentenced him on two counts- having sex with a minor and misuse of an official position. Jordanovski will not answer for the charges of rape, because the public prosecutor has withdrawn the charges and the victim D.P. will not charge him with this crime. Jordanovski’s lawyer thinks that even this punishment is too hard and there for they will appeal the judgment. In the court process against the music professor, ten witnesses and the two victims testified. Jordanovski had a two year long sexual relationship with one of them. 		 
     
  A TAX FOR TRANSPORT ON THE MACEDONIAN OIL COMPANIES

Kosovo has further tightened the import for the Macedonian oil companies by enforcing a new tax of 100 euros per truck for the use of the roads in the province. This new tax will have to be paid by all oil exporters.
UNMIK has confirmed this latest decision of the province. The tax is called - a transport tax. Macedonian authorities are again in the dark about this. Both members of the ministry for economy and the customs office shrug their shoulders.
A classic racketeering, this is how the people of this business describe this last move by the province and ask, for what kind of roads are they paying a 100 euros for, when they don’t have any highways there.
For the last two months the Province has managed to strike several serious blows to the Macedonian economy. They have cornered the government. Without a finished free trade agreement - the Kosovars have unilaterally enacted this customs duty . Immediately after that a new business attack followed - they made Macedonian transporters to ask for licensed Kosovar firms, if they want to transport oil to the province.
 		  
     
  MONEY FOR THE WINEGROWERS

The government is prepared to set aside 45 million denars from the budget for a stimulation package for the winegrowers so they can change their types of wine, like smederevka, which represents a problem during the buyout, as well as for them as for the wine companies. The way of allocation of these funds will be decided by the Ministry of Agriculture, in cooperation with the winegrowers and the wine companies. This was promised by the Prime Minister Vlado Buckovski on the meeting with Veljo Tantarov, the president of the Farmers Union, Panco Manev, the mayor of Kavadarci and the representatives of the winegrowers of Kavadarci, Negotino, Gevgelija and Rosoman.
“It’s a small found of money, which won’t cover even a fraction of our demands. We demand 200 million denars, and the state must find them because this category of farmers contribute a 100 million euros to the budget”, the farmer’s leader, Veljo Tantarov, stated after the meeting.		  
     
  A LITERARY EVENT IN SIDENY

Recently in the Sidney neighborhood Rogdael, the Macedonian writers association “Gligor Prlicev” from Sidney, in front of hundreds of lovers of Macedonian literature, held the traditional Literary event.
In the first part of the event the book “The family ties of the Tsar Samuel with the British queen Elizabeth the II” was promoted by the historian and archeologist professor Aleksandar Donski, which was promoted by the professor of historical science Slavica Ristevska. This work by Aleksandar sparked a large interest among the Macedonian emigration in Australia. After that, the awarding of the winners of the competition for the best short stories and poems for children and adults for 2005 was held. Among the winners were: Mitra Nedanovska, Cveta Veljanovska, Pero Damcevski-Kocin, Branko Naumovski, Gorjan Maslinkovski i Novica Angelkovski.]
At the end the names of the new honorary members of this society were read, and those are: Academic Blaze Ristevski and Professor Aleksandar Donski. The program was hosted by the poetes Emilija Todorova, and among the present were the representative of the Macedonian Embassy in Canberra, Mr. Kostadin Dorakovski.		  
     
 

THE 11TH ANNIVERSARY OF “TETOVO FOLK FESTIVAL”

On the 28th of August, in the courtyard of the Leshoc monastery, the 11 issue of the “Tetovo Folk Fest” was held. There were a lot of visitors, but mostly young people, to see the performance of the most popular Macedonian folk singers. This festival traditionally has no competitive character, and the only award that was given was to Ekrem Zanulovski for the song “To My People”, which was declared as the most listened to song between the two festivals.
The songs that were sung were weeding and love songs. All of the performers offered a quality performance, and they were accepted well, and according to the applause, Suzana Spasovska, Mile Kuzmanovski, Marija Miseva, Blaga Petreska and Misko Taleski were most welcome.

  
     
  A SCANDAL ON THE “OHRID TRUBADOURS”

Bojan Blelic from Serbia and Montenegro, with the song “That is not Love”, is the official winner of the international night, in which the best performers of the previous nigh performed, the pop-night of the festival “The Ohrid Troubadours”, which was held form 25 till 27 of August in the Lower City (Saraj) in Ohrid. He won the most votes form the audience and the jury commission. The festival’s third day started with the change of the rules of the game, and ended with a scandal, Although, Goko Tanevski had the same number of votes (128), according to the vote of the jury and the audience, the first prize of 150.000 denars went to the guest from Serbia, and Tanevski had to be satisfied with 100.000 denars. Grigor Koprov, the festival’s director explained this as a Eurovision principal of voting, according to which the contestant that won 12 pints the most times is the winner.
On the press conference on the last day of the festival the organizer informed about the change of the rules. Aldo that was not envisaged, in the international night nine singers and performers entered without any formal grounds.		  
     
  THE UNFORTUNATE FATE OF THE WOMEN OF OHRID SANG IN USA

The unfortunate fate of the young girls from Ohrid, Frosina, Despina, Ruse, themes of the old folk songs form the music band of Klime Sadilo, sang at the end of the 60’ of the last century have provoked interest in the record companies of America. Fiesta Records from Broad Way released a long-play record with these famous songs for the first time in 1958, and on the cover it was specified that these were songs from the Balkans, with the attention that these were songs form “The Ohrid Troubadours” from Klime Sadilo and his band.
It is said that the mediator for the publishing of the record was an emigrant of ours from Resen, who lived in New York.
The songs “May God smith, Ruse, Your Mother Angelina”, “Frosina is sitting on the chardak”, “A Mark for Despina”, originated from the period of 1780-1850.		  
     
  “SKRB I UTEHA” ON TWO INTERNATIONAL FESTIVALS


The “Dion” production form the C.C “Skrb i Uteha” in October will be a participant in two international film festivals. With the documentary “A stone between two fields” after the script by Tihomir Stojanovski and directed by Vlado Dencev, filmed in Golo Brdo where the Macedonians form Albania live, the “Dion” production will be competing in the Athenian international film festival in Greece and on the Festival of the film Academy from Olimouk (The Czech Republic).
In the film parts of the play “Denonosii” of the teatre “Skrb i Uteha” were interpreted, played in Trebista and Malo OStrani in Golo Brdo, in which the characters form the Macedonian ancient history appear” Alexander the Great, Philip the Second, Orpheus and Olympia. This production was shown on film festivals in the USA, Chez Republic, Bosnia, S&MG, Turkey, Greece, Spain and other countries.		  
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
 

 

  

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PM BUCKOVSKI SIGNS DECLARATION ON EUROPEAN SOLIDARITY

Macedonian Prime Minister Vlado Buckovski signed Wednesday in Gdansk, Poland the joint Declaration of Central and Eastern Europe Heads of Governments, which proposes that August 31 is declared Day of Solidarity and Freedom within the United Nations, reads a press release from the PM's Cabinet.
"A great march of Europe towards freedom and trade union 'Solidarity' personified the aspirations of millions of Eastern European citizens to tumble the walls of totalitarianism and realize their dreams in a new, united Europe. For generations of Macedonians striving for inclusion in the European community of freedom, democracy and prosperity, the Gdansk Revolution was an inspiration for overcoming a number of challenges and persevere on the road to shared European and Euro-Atlantic perspectives. I am sure that 'Solidarity' heritage will be the guiding light for future generations in Europe", PM Buckovski said in the message on occasion of the 25th anniversary from the establishment of trade union "Solidarity".
This independent organization was established in August 1980, and led to the decay of the Soviet Empire, enabled the fall of the Berlin Wall, end of the nuclear run. The universality of ideals within the Polish August towards contemporary problems of humanity are still of current interest.
At the sidelines of the Gdansk summit, Buckovski also had informal meetings with Polish President, Prime Minister Aleksander Kwasniewski and Marek Belka, Slovene, Bulgarian, Czech and Slovakian PMs, Janez Jansa, Sergey Stanishev, Jiri Paroubek, Mikulas Dzurinda, as well as UK Minister for Europe Denis McShane.

 NEW SCHOOL YEAR BEGINS

Almost 320.000 pupils in primary and secondary schools will begin Thursday the new school year.
Around of 26.000 first-grade pupils in more than 340 primary schools in Macedonia will begin the education and the total number of the pupils in primary education is 240.000.
Close to 90.000 pupils will attend classes in secondary schools. 23.000 newly enrolled secondary school pupils will attend the Macedonian language classes, 6.000 pupils will attend the Albanian language classes and 442 pupils will attend the Turkish language classes.
On the occasion of the beginning of the new school year Deputy PM Radmila Sekerinska and High Representative of the Norwegian Foreign Ministry Vibeke Lilu will visit "Panajot Ginovski" and "Zivko Brajkovski" elementary schools in Butel municipality. And Minister of Education and Science Azis Polozani is to visit "J.H. Dzinot" elementary school in the village of Dolno Kolicani, Studenicani municipality.