20.05.2015, Strategic Culture Foundation http://www.strategic-culture.org (Russia), Фонд стратегической культуры http://www.fondsk.ru (Россия)
Squeezed between Greece, Albania, Bulgaria, Serbia,
the self-proclaimed region of Kosovo and Bulgaria Macedonia is facing an
extremely explosive situation, said Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov
speaking at the 125th Session of the Committee of Ministers of the Council of
Europe in Brussels. The Russian Foreign Ministry has emphasized that Western organizers
of extreme situations are trying to push Macedonia into the abyss of color
revolutions. «I cannot judge with a final definition, but objectively it turns
out that these events in Macedonia are developing on the backdrop of the
Macedonian authorities’ refusal to join in the sanction policy against Russia,
as well as on the backdrop of its active support that Skopje showed in regard
to the planned construction of the Turkish Stream gas pipeline, which many in
Brussels and those overseas are against», Lavrov said on May 15 during a joint
press conference with Serbian Foreign Minister Ivica Dacic in Belgrade.
On May 17, anti-government protests were organized in
the Macedonian capital Skopje by Zoran Zaev, the political leader of the Social
Democratic Union of Macedonia (SDSM) and the leader of opposition in the
Republic of Macedonia. The protesters demanded the resignation of
