Boris Trajkovski (Macedonian: Борис Трајковски, [ˈbɔris ˈtrajkɔfski] (help·info)) (June 25, 1956 – February 26, 2004) was the president of the Republic of Macedonia from 1999 to 2004.
Boris was born in the village of Monospitovo, in the municipality of Murtino, near the Macedonian town of Strumica, 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 ...
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Boris Trajkovski (Macedonian: Борис Трајковски, [ˈbɔris ˈtrajkɔfski] (help·info)) (June 25, 1956 – February 26, 2004) was the president of the Republic of Macedonia from 1999 to 2004.
Boris was born in the village of Monospitovo, in the municipality of Murtino, near the Macedonian town of Strumica, 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 P.o.Ws. 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 Methodist Church. Following political...
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