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Papaconstantinou denies this charge "categorically: I have never seen any document or heard anything of this sort. We want them ((the Macedonians)) to exist ((as a separate state)); we want them as a buffer zone" between Greece and Serbia. "The authorities in Skopje ((the Macedonian capital)) can change their name to anything except Macedonia," and that will remove "a point of friction in the Balkans...
...claim to their native land. Deported across the eastern Soviet Union en masse in 1944 after Stalin accused them of collaborating with the Nazis, the Crimean Tatars have been returning by the tens of thousands in the past two years. With support from Kiev, which views them as a buffer against the Russian majority, some 200,000 Tatars have started building houses across the peninsula on state-owned land...
According to the summary, the city will remain under the tax levy limit--the legal ceiling on the property tax rate--though severe slashes in state aid will mean that this year's buffer will be smaller than in previous years...
...past elections, the first-in-the-nation Iowa caucuses have served as an effective media buffer for the state...
...trainer is supposed to be a buffer between the student and the coach," Baker says...