Sir Boris Trajkovski GCMG (Macedonian: Борис Трајковски [ˈbɔris ˈtrajkɔfski] ( listen); 25 June 1956 – 26 February 2004) was the president and supreme commander-in-chief of the Republic of Macedonia from 1999 to 2004.
Boris was born into a Methodist family. His father, Kiro, who died in September, 2008, was a landworker who had served in the Bulgarian army and had been imprisoned for two years for feeding POWs. Trajkovski graduated in 1980 with a...
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Sir Boris Trajkovski GCMG (Macedonian: Борис Трајковски [ˈbɔris ˈtrajkɔfski] ( listen); 25 June 1956 – 26 February 2004) was the president and supreme commander-in-chief of the Republic of Macedonia from 1999 to 2004.
Boris was born into a Methodist family. His father, Kiro, who died in September, 2008, was a landworker who had served in the Bulgarian army and had been imprisoned for two years for feeding POWs. Trajkovski graduated in 1980 with a degree in law from the St. Cyril and Methodius University in Skopje. He subsequently specialized in commercial and employment law and made several visits to the United States, where he studied theology to become a Methodist lay minister.
After he finished his studies, the Communist government confined him for a time to a remote village owing to his religious activities. There he took care of an impoverished Roma parish of the United Methodist Church. Following political liberalisation in the 1980s, he went on to head the legal department of...
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