Macedonians

The Macedonian government has decided to oblige all institutions to change their public names in the name of the state, in line with amendments to the Constitution, the Constitutional Law on the Implementation of Amendments and the Law on the Use of Languages, reported the Bulgarian National Television. 

Macedonian government and opposition MPs who backed the historic 'name' agreement denied claims that they had taken bribes or been offered amnesty in exchange for their votes.

A Turkish family, who went to the Greek city of Thessaloniki for a weekend holiday, has been attacked by a Greek ultra-nationalist group who thought they were Macedonians. 

Three Bulgarian citizens have been detained for stealing Macedonian capital Skopje
 
The three, aged 19, 27 and 41, are arrested at the entrance to one of the city's central markets.

Informal information is about pickpockets of Roma origin.

The honorary chief of the Hellenic Army, Frangos Frangoulis, has called for a petition to be carried out for the submission of the recent Macedonia name deal to a referendum.

Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia (FYROM) Prime Minister Zoran Zaev hailed the agreement reached with Greece earlier this month settling the decades-old name dispute, as solving "the biggest problem that was preventing our development since our independence."

The citizens who gathered in front of the Macedonian Assembly blocked a boulevard and several nearby streets, while the police was deployed to guard the building, MIA agency reported.

Plusinfo website said that a Molotov cocktail that did not cause a fire was thrown at the police, as well as several bottles, while a stun grenade was also activated.

Bulgarian plantations for marijuana grow оn the sunny hills near San Francisco. Some Bulgarians split property between their relatives, and hire workers from the Balkans - apparently they were more resourceful and hardworking.

The Bulgarian Holy Synod decided late on Monday to refuse an invitation from Macedonian Archbishop Stefan and not attend celebrations for the 1000th anniversary of the creation of the Ohrid Archbishopric on May 27 in Macedonia's second city.

''Israel as a leading state in hi-tech would have an interest in investing in Bulgaria's potential in these areas'', President Rumen Radev said today at a meeting with his Israeli counterpart, Reuven Rivlin, at Jerusalem's Presidential Palace.