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Bulgarian Govt Leaders Snub Macedonian President
Bulgarian Prime Minister Boyko Borssov and Foreign Minister Ekaterina Zaharieva will not meet Macedonian President George Ivanov while he is on an official two-day visit to Sofia. Ivanov is currently meeting his Bulgarian counterpart, President Rumen Radev.
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Putin's Homage to Cyrillic Makes Bulgarians See Red
А number of Bulgarian ministers and diplomats have condemned Russian President Vladimir Putin for telling his Macedonian colleague George Ivanov on May 24 - the Day of Slavic Literacy - that the Cyrillic script came from Macedonia.
"The Slavic alphabet and literature came to us from Macedonian soil", Putin told Ivanov during the Macedonian President's visit to Moscow.
Macedonia Holds 2-in-1 Presidential, Snap Elections
Macedonia votes Sunday for a new President and Parliament in a double election.
Around 1.8 million eligible voters are to cast ballots at over 3500 polling stations across the country.
Election Day started at 7 am local time and is to end at 7pm, with preliminary results due late on Sunday, according to reports of Al Jazeera.