of Macedonia between Serbia and Greece after the First World War. His memory is honoured and his name is taken from streets and schools in the whole of Bulgaria. In North Macedonia, Ivan Mihaylov has been regarded as traitor of the Macedonian people. The Constitutional court of the Republic of North Macedonia banned the Radko Association, a pro-Bulgarian organization bearing the name of Ivan Mihaylov as separatist. Radko Knoll on Rugged Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica is named after Ivan "Radko" Mihaylov. The Government of North Macedonia, in an event led by Prime Minister Nikola Gruevski and Minister for Culture, Ms. Elizabeta Kancheska-Milevska, opened a memorial home of leaders of historical VMRO, devoted also to Ivan Mihaylov, at 20 December 2014 in Novo Selo, Štip. Mihaylov's view about the Macedonian question There are different political opinions about Mihaylov's activity in Bulgaria, but scholars agree that he was a defender of the statement about the strong Bulgarian character of the Slav-speaking population in the region of Macedonia. He was a follower of the idea about an independent United Macedonian multiethnic state with prevailing ethnic Bulgarian element, something as "Switzerland on the Balkans". According to his personal secretary Vida Boeva he was constantly canvassing by means of petitions, letters of protest, memoirs addressed to the UN etc. By the name of Macedonian Patriotic Organisation emphasizing that the Macedonian Republic was a colony of Serbia, under another name, as the Macedonian nation, also writing about the repression carried out by the Yugoslav authorities against the local Slavic inhabitants of Macedonia, openly demonstrating their Bulgarian self-awareness, mentioning examples of this. He declared also that Macedonia is Bulgarian and the Slavs in Macedonia are Bulgarian. All these people that had the power in Macedonia were serbophiles or grecophiles. He believed that the Macedonians are part of the Bulgarian nation and the founders of IMRO were people who accepted the San Stefano Bulgaria. The Bulgarianness of Mihaylov is recognized by several Macedonian historians like academician Ivan Katardžiev, director of the Historical Sciences section in the Department of Social Sciences in the Macedonian Academy of Sciences and Arts and the director of the Macedonian State archive PhD Zoran Todorovski. According to Katardžiev the policy of Mihaylov for the establishment of an independent Macedonian state meant a Macedonian state of the Bulgarians in Macedonia. That denotes a second Bulgarian state, but not a national ethnic Macedonian