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This R&D provides resources on Macedonia’s political crisis.  After fourteen years of relative stability between the country’s Macedonian majority and its Albanian minority tensions are re-emerging.  The Ohrid peace deal in 2001 saw the Macedonian government agree to provide more rights to ethnic Albanians, but observers argue that those promises have not been honored.  The country’s economic problems are also aiding the growth of ethnic extremist movements.  European Union (EU) diplomats are warning that recent clashes between Macedonian officials and these extremist groups could produce renewed ethnic unrest in the Balkans, which was the site of gross human rights violations during the 1990s.