Macedonian Voice (1913–1914)
Macedonian Voice was a newspaper that was published in Saint Petersburg between 1913 and 1914 by the Macedonian Scientific and Literary Society. The issues of the newspaper were published monthly in Russian.
Background
The newspaper was published in the period of the Balkan Wars, thus its content was a reflection of the social and political context of that time. Its intent was to generate discussion on the Macedonian Question and to put it on the agenda in the Russian Empire, as well as abroad. Before the newspaper was created, a number of Bulgarian language newspapers and societies of the same name were founded in the region of Macedonia, Bulgaria and the United States by Macedonian Bulgarians.Content
The newspaper was published in eleven editions. The editor in all the editions was Dimitrija Čupovski. The newspaper was a bulletin of a group of Slav Macedonian students in Russia, and it promoted the notion of a separate Macedonian people as distinct from the Greeks, Bulgarians and Serbs. Some of its articles were written by Krste Misirkov.The newspaper opposed the division of Macedonia between Bulgaria, Greece, Serbia and Albania, as a result of the Bucharest treaty in 1913. The editors were struggling to popularize the idea for an independent Macedonian state as is shown on the front page of the first edition published on June 9, 1913. They also demanded the re-establishment of the Archbishopric of Ohrid.