About Boris Trajkovski
Boris Trajkovski (GCMG; Macedonian: Борис Трајковски, pronounced ['bɔris 'trajkɔfski]; 25 June 1956 – 26 February 2004) was a Macedonian politician who served as the president of Macedonia from 1999 until his death in 2004 in a plane crash. == Early life == Trajkovski was born on 25 June 1956 in the village of Murtino in the region of Strumica in PR Macedonia, FPR Yugoslavia (modern North Macedonia), into a Methodist family. He studied at a gymnasium in Strumica. As a Methodist Christian, he led the Yugoslav Methodist youth organization for 12 years. Trajkovski graduated in 1980 with a degree in law from the Ss. Cyril and Methodius University in Skopje. He also studied at a Protestant theological college in the United States. Trajkovski subsequently specialised in commercial and employment law, later serving as the leader of the legal department of the Sloboda construction company in Skopje until 1997. The communist government had also confined him to the countryside during the Cold War, where he served as a lay pastor of a Romani congregation. == Career in politics == After the Republic of Macedonia's independence, he became a member of the political party VMRO-DPMNE in 1992.
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