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Klagenfurt / Celovec gets a Slovenian Vice Mayor
16.03.2021
Lojze Dolinar, a Carinthian Slovene and former professor at the Slovenian grammar school, is proposed to be the new Vice Mayor of Klagenfurt / Celovec, according to ORF.
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State Commissioner Dünow: Supporting European minorities is living in diversity
08.03.2021
In a press release from March 5th, 2021, the Brandenburg State Commissioner for Sorbs / Wends Affairs, State Secretary for Science and Culture Tobias Dünow expressed his disappointment at the rejection of the Minority SafePack Initiative by the EU Commission, as well as Brandenburg's strong support for Europe's minorities.
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4 new slavic languages on the AGSM homepage
05.03.2021
Today we have extended the title of the Working Group of Slavic Minorities to 4 additional slavic languages and have thus our name already in 11 languages.
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Local council elections in Carinthia / Koroška: Success for the Slovenian minority
01.03.2021
In the local elections on Sunday in Carinthia / Koroška, the Slovenian community achieved a good result - the "Unified list" / Enotna Lista (EL) will have 59 councilors. Bernard Sadovnik, who was re-elected mayor, achieved great success in the Globasnitz / Globasnica municipality.
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10 years of Macedonian Newspaper "Ilinden"
01.03.2021
Exactly ten years ago, on March 1, 2011, the first issue of the Macedonian newspaper "Ilinden" was published as a double issue (March / April) as a bulletin of the Macedonian association "Ilinden"- Tirana. For the past ten years, the newspaper has aroused great interest among the Macedonian readers. The mission of the newspaper remains to encourage and maintain the Macedonian language and identity in the Republic of Albania
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The police tracked down the perpetrators of the smearings in Carinthia / Koroška
26.02.2021
After the Slovenian names were sprayed over with black paint on bilingual town-signs in Carinthia / Koroška several times in January, the police have now succeeded in investigating two young men from Klagenfurt / Celovec as the perpetrators, as reported by ORF.
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Slovenian minority in Italy addresses the new Prime Minister
23.02.2021
The Presidents of the Slovenian Cultural and Business Association (SKGZ) and the Council of Slovenian Organizations (SSO) Ksenija Dobrila and Walter Bandelj sent a letter to the new Italian Prime Minister Mario Draghi, in which they congratulated him on his appointment and reffered to open questions of the Slovenian minority in Italy.
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100 anniversary of border setting in Burgenland / Gradišće
22.02.2021
On the occasion of the 100th anniversary of the founding of Burgenland / Gradišće, historian Michael Schreiber from Nikitsch / Filež has compiled a series for the Croatian editorial staff of ORF Burgenland / Gradišće. Every Monday in the show "Kulturni tajedan" (Culture Week), on Radio Burgenland / Gradišće at 6:15 pm, you can hear part of the series.
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International Mother Language Day
21.02.2021
There are over 7000 languages in the world, including over 20 Slavic, with almost 400 million speakers. On International Mother Language Day, AGSM member organizations spoke out in favor of strengthening their languages. Here is a summary in English and in the respective native languages.
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AGSM receives "Ilinden" Prize
08.02.2021
The Working Group of Slavic Minorities receives this year's Ilinden Prize because with its "commitment it has contributed to the improvement and dissemination of knowledge about the life, history, culture and preservation of the Macedonian ethnic group in Albania."
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