Eighty-Year-Old Bulgarian Journalist Attacked in Skopje Amid Rising Anti-Bulgarian Hostility

An elderly journalist long associated with the Bulgarian community in North Macedonia has reported a new case of hate-motivated aggression in Skopje. Vladimir Perev, 80, says he was verbally assaulted and struck in the face while waiting in line at a shop in the Macedonian capital. In his account published on the "Tribuna" website, he describes how a man around 40 years old shouted ethnic insults at him, broke his glasses and threatened him with further violence if he continued to identify as Macedonian or speak about Macedonian identity from what the attacker called a “Bulgarian mouth....