Despite a postponement this week, Grigory Pasko, a journalist accused of treason for leaking details of the navy's dumping of nuclear waste, is due for trial in Vladivostock in June.
But, says Pasko Kuzman, an archaeologist at the culture ministry, Macedonians are a mix of all the people who have ever lived in the region, so they have every right to treat Alexander as a symbol.