Bog da ja prosti, so young and tragic for the family. May she have eternal peace.
United Macedonia Diaspora
Collapse
X
-
I believe her heritage was from Ohrid, very sad no doubt. Such a young lady 38 and she achieved so much in her life.МАКЕДОНЕЦ си кога кавал ќе ти ја распара душата,зурла ќе ти го раскине срцето,кога секое влакно од кожата ќе ти се наежи кога ќе видиш шеснаесеткрако сонце,кога до коска ќе те заболи кога ќе слушнеш ПЈРМ,кога немаш ни за леб,а полн си во душата затоа што ја сакаш МАКЕДОНИЈА. МАКЕДОНИЈА во срце те носиме.
Comment
-
-
Action Alert: Help Save the BBC Macedonian Service
The British Broadcasting Service (BBC) announced last week that they would cut five language services in order to cut costs. The five language programs are Albanian, Macedonian, Serbian, the English service for the Caribbean region and Portuguese for Africa.
UMD urges you to help us save the BBC Macedonian Service.
Macedonians worldwide and friends of Macedonia, headed by Macedonia’s first president Kiro Gligorov, advocated in 1995 for BBC to begin a Macedonian Service and on January 8, 1996, BBC started the first ever Macedonian Service. Since then, BBC Macedonian Service has reached millions of Macedonians worldwide and friends of Macedonia bringing us the news of the day in the Macedonian language not only in Macedonia, but to the world through the internet. The BBC Macedonian Service’s budget is only a little over 400,000 pounds, and does not represent much in the 54 million pounds BBC hopes to save through these cuts.
While UMD understands that the cutting of the BBC Macedonian Service is due to budget reasons, for us it will be the end of the existence of a small but extremely dynamic and editorial staff.
“During our 15 years of existence, with various programmes from music to news and current affairs, we worked tirelessly to give our audiences the best journalism the BBC could provide. And to do that in one of the world’s most beautiful languages, Macedonian, the basis for the Cyrillic alphabet and the Slavic languages around the world,” said Zaneta Skerlev, head of the BBC Macedonian Service today for UMD.
Other quotes from fellow Macedonians about the BBC Macedonian Service:
“In the last 15 years, radio programmes in the Macedonian language, broadcast from London, had a very important role in objective and regular reporting about events, features, stories and people from Europe and all over the world. It had been very important for the citizens of Macedonia: first because they were getting all-important information about everyday events in their native language, and second: because it was an opportunity for Macedonian to be heard in programmes broadcast from abroad.”
“I can honestly hope that the authorities in the World Service, who broadcast programmes for 240 million people in the world, and have exceptional respect and trustworthiness, will reconsider once again the decision and will enable further functioning of the Macedonian section.”
- Kiro Gligorov, first President of Macedonia
"The broadcasts of the BBC WS in Macedonian language represented a real added value to the development of the Macedonian media space. I reckon that the Service left a good mark and I have no doubt it will be remembered by the good work it has done. I am also convinced that the BBC itself acknowledges the strong contribution that has been made by the Macedonian Service to the overall performance of the company. BBC Macedonian is going to remain a positive sentiment for us - a sentiment of a small and proud People which is a part of the European culture.”
- Antonio Milososki, current Minister of Foreign Affairs of Macedonia
"I received the news with great sadness. On the one hand it is clear to me why this is being done - these last few years we have been aware of the restructuring process within the BBC and the serious budget cuts. I am aware of the crisis that the British economy is facing. However, personally, I feel sorrow that such outstanding journalistic craftsmen are now going to be leaving the BBC. In a more general sense - we are losing a very important cultural, political and informational link between the two states, languages and cultures.”
- Goran Stefanovski, Macedonian writer based in the UK and Lecturer in Drama at Canterbury University
What can you do?
1. Add your signature to the petition by clicking here: http://www.petitionbuzz.com/petitions/savews
In the note section write “Please don’t cut the BBC Macedonian Service.”
The petition will be forwarded to those responsible for this decision:
- Mark Thompson – Director General, BBC
- Jeremy Hunt – UK Secretary of State for Media & Culture
- William Hague – UK Foreign Secretary
2. If you live in the UK, write to your MP - it’s easy, do it here now:
Making it easy to keep an eye on the UK’s parliaments. Discover who represents you, how they’ve voted and what they’ve said in debates.
3. Contact the UK Foreign Secretary here:
http://www.theyworkforyou.com/mp/wil...ichmond_(yorks)
4. Contact the BBC DG here: mark.thompson@bbc.co.uk
In the subject, put “Please don’t cut the BBC Macedonian Service!” Please feel free to use text above for verbiage to put in your letter.
5. Like the Save BBC World Service on Facebook - click here: http://www.facebook.com/pages/Save-B...59789774072830
6. Please pass this to all your contacts, so we can get a wider response in support of the BBC Macedonian Service.
Thank you so much for helping to save the BBC Macedonian Service!Last edited by UMDiaspora.org; 02-02-2011, 10:57 AM.For comments, questions, concerns, please contact us at:
United Macedonian Diaspora
http://www.umdiaspora.org
1101 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW, 6th Floor, Washington, D.C. 20004, United States
Phone: (202) 756-2244, Fax: (202) 756-7323, E-mail: info@umdiaspora.org
PO Box 2153, Hawthorn, Vic. 3122, Australia
Phone: 0438 385 466, E-mail: australia@umdiaspora.org
3555 St. Clair Avenue East, Toronto, ON, M1K 1L6, Canada
Phone: 416-209-0448, E-mail: canada@umdiaspora.org
Comment
-
-
UMD Deplores Actions by Bulgarian State Agency of National Security to Stamp Down on Media Freedom
The United Macedonian Diaspora (UMD) issued a statement today deploring actions by the Bulgarian State Agency of National Security (acronym DANS) to stamp down on freedom of the media and urging Bulgaria to respect the civil rights of their sizable Macedonian minority. UMD believes this attack on freedom of the media coincides with today’s start of the Bulgarian Census and is a direct effort to minimize the amount of Bulgarian citizens to report themselves as Macedonians
Read full situation here: http://umdiaspora.org/content/view/544/1For comments, questions, concerns, please contact us at:
United Macedonian Diaspora
http://www.umdiaspora.org
1101 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW, 6th Floor, Washington, D.C. 20004, United States
Phone: (202) 756-2244, Fax: (202) 756-7323, E-mail: info@umdiaspora.org
PO Box 2153, Hawthorn, Vic. 3122, Australia
Phone: 0438 385 466, E-mail: australia@umdiaspora.org
3555 St. Clair Avenue East, Toronto, ON, M1K 1L6, Canada
Phone: 416-209-0448, E-mail: canada@umdiaspora.org
Comment
-
-
mmmmm BBC yeah they have done a great justice over the years for Macedonia, they have called us fyrom and slavs for around 20 years on countless accations, they have aired and re-aired countless of Anti Macedonian propaganda, they have written countless of poorly written biased articles, they even had the balls to take the Shiptar side during the war...Damn those evil Slav Macedonians they are evil spit spit spit
Who in their right mind would view a BBC website to gain up to date news on Macedonia, you may as well log onto A1....
Comment
-
-
I dont want to save the BBC in fact the Macedonian government needs to stop the airing of Radio Free Europe in Macedonia too, RFE is a propaganda mouse piece of Washington, and again on the BBC I hate them.
I will never forgot their demonising of us never.
Comment
-
-
UMD, the BBC is anti Macedonian and pro Greek and you openly support the damage they've caused over the years with their racist reports? Soros, Crvenkovski and A1 are also huge supporters so you have good company.Last edited by Makedonska_Kafana; 02-02-2011, 08:39 AM.
Comment
-
-
BBC Macedonian Service is not anti-Macedonian and pro-Greek.
What racist reports did the BBC Macedonian Service publish?For comments, questions, concerns, please contact us at:
United Macedonian Diaspora
http://www.umdiaspora.org
1101 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW, 6th Floor, Washington, D.C. 20004, United States
Phone: (202) 756-2244, Fax: (202) 756-7323, E-mail: info@umdiaspora.org
PO Box 2153, Hawthorn, Vic. 3122, Australia
Phone: 0438 385 466, E-mail: australia@umdiaspora.org
3555 St. Clair Avenue East, Toronto, ON, M1K 1L6, Canada
Phone: 416-209-0448, E-mail: canada@umdiaspora.org
Comment
-
-
Originally posted by UMDiaspora.org View PostBBC Macedonian Service is not anti-Macedonian and pro-Greek.
What racist reports did the BBC Macedonian Service publish?
I DO NOT AND NEVER WILL!
WORLD MACEDONIAN DIASPORA
YouTube - Vardare Egej kaj ti e..Vardare Pirin kaj ti eLast edited by Makedonska_Kafana; 02-02-2011, 10:23 AM.
Comment
-
-
Originally posted by UMDiaspora.org View PostBBC Macedonian Service is not anti-Macedonian and pro-Greek.
What racist reports did the BBC Macedonian Service publish?If my people who are called by my name will humble themselves and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, I will hear from heaven and will forgive their sins and restore their land. 2 Chronicles 7:14
The Revolution was in the minds and hearts of the people; a change in their religious sentiments, of their duties and obligations...This radical change in the principles, opinions, sentiments, and affections of the people was the real American Revolution. John Adams
Comment
-
-
How can anyone accept a nonsensical name like fyrom,but greece didn't stop there they asked for a prefix on the name The Fyrom.Can you beleive it macedonia was sitting under the letter"T" in the UN.The umd has a lot to answer for the damage to our name.Go lick some grks arse."Ido not want an uprising of people that would leave me at the first failure, I want revolution with citizens able to bear all the temptations to a prolonged struggle, what, because of the fierce political conditions, will be our guide or cattle to the slaughterhouse"
GOTSE DELCEV
Comment
-
-
Originally posted by Vangelovski View PostMeto, even you ran your own campaign against the BBC...short memories.
UMD is an NGO or MORE LIKE A POLITICAL PARTY? BROKEN PROMISES AND ON-GOING ERRORSLast edited by Makedonska_Kafana; 02-02-2011, 06:25 PM.
Comment
-
Comment