Македонският въпрос в публикациите на Съюза за освобождението на Украйна по време на Първата световна война
The Macedonian Issue in the Publications of the Union for the Liberation of Ukraineduring the First World War

Summary/Abstract: Before the outbreak of the Great War, the national problems of the Russian Empire and in particular the Ukrainian issue were unknown to Bulgarian society. The Bulgarians became acquainted with the aspiration of a part of the Ukrainians to separate the Ukrainian lands from the Russian Empire and to create an independent Ukrainian state thanks to the representatives of the Union for the Liberation of Ukraine who arrived in Bulgaria in the autumn of 1914. This organization was established in early August 1914 in Lviv (Austria-Hungary) by Ukrainians, political emigrants from the Russian Empire. The task of the emissaries of the Union in Bulgaria was to popularize the Ukrainian issue in the country through newspaper publications, brochures and others. In its printed organ, the Journal of the Union for the Liberation of Ukraine, the leadership of the Union introduces Bulgarian issues and specifically the Macedonian issue to illustrate with Bulgaria's example Russia's aggressive foreign policy towards another Slavic state. Many publications are devoted to the Ukrainian point of view on the state of the Bulgarian national question.

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