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Balkan Insight (24 May 2021)

Sinisa Jakov Marusic

Skopje

North Macedonia’s President Stevo Pendarovski and his Bulgarian counterpart, Rumen Radev, are traveling this week to Rome to pay joint tribute to Sts Cyril and Methodius, the ninth-century missionaries and founders of the first Slavic alphabet, who were sanctified there in the 19th century.

Although the two neighbouring countries, like the rest of the Slavic world, celebrated their holiday on Monday, the two presidents will fly to Rome a bit later, on Wednesday, due to the COVID-19 safety protocols in place in the Vatican.

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