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Joveski: The biggest mistake is the lack of April 27 on-site investigation

03/01/2019 12:51

The biggest mistake related to the April 27 events in Parliament is the lack of on-site investigation by a public prosecutor immediately after the incidents, since there is higher probability of securing evidence at that time, said State Public Prosecutor Ljubomir Joveski in an interview with MIA. “At this moment the Public Prosecutor’s Office possesses …

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Another 30-day detention for former UBK chief Vladimir Atanasovski

03/01/2019 12:38

The Skopje-based Criminal Court has extended the detention of former Administration for Security and Counterintelligence head Vladimir Atanasovski by another thirty days. Vladimir Atanasovski is suspected of crime ‘association for enemy activity’ over the 27 April 2017 events in Parliament. The former UBK chief Atanasovski was arrested in December after two witnesses in the case singled …

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The number of defendants in free fall

03/01/2019 08:19

The Amnesty law cut in half the number of defendants in the trial for the April 27 events in parliament. The number of defendants can be further reduced if the Court of Appeals decided to accept the complaints of some of the defendants who initially did not receive amnesty before the Christmas holidays. It should …

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Stoltenberg urges Skopje and Athens to complete the Prespa Agreement by February 15

02/01/2019 17:30

Greek daily newspaper Kathimerini reported that NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg sent letters to Skopje and Athens urging the two governments to complete the ratification of the Prespa Agreement by February 15, so that Macedonia can join the alliance without further delay. According to the letter, NATO members agreed that the vote on the ratification of …

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Survey: Turkish President Erdogan voted most distinguished world leader of 2018

02/01/2019 15:05

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan was named “the most distinguished world leader of 2018” on Monday in an online survey conducted by the Rassd News Network. The online survey was organized by the pro-Muslim Brotherhood news network, which was established in Egypt after the Jan. 25, 2011 popular revolution and has a widespread following in …

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Joveski: Gruevski did not leave Macedonia by crossing any of the border crossings

02/01/2019 14:12

Macedonia’s former Prime Minister Nikola Gruevski didn’t leave the territory of the Republic of Macedonia by crossing any of the border crossings. Witnesses have been questioned, but I will refrain from giving any other details so as not to harm the preliminary investigation, said State Public Prosecutor Ljubomir Joveski. “Public prosecutors are taking actions to …

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Tzanakopoulos: Prespa Agreement will be ratified by 151 votes

02/01/2019 13:02

Greece’s government spokesman Dimitris Tzanakopoulos has expressed his confidence that the SYRIZA-led administration will secure the 151 votes it needs to adopt the name agreement signed between Athens and Skopje on June 17th, 2018. On Wednesday in a radio interview with News 24/7 , Tzanakopoulos said that in the event that the junior coalition Independent Greeks …

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Serbian President Vucic allegedly plans elections in March

02/01/2019 12:45

Aleksandar Vucic, president of Serbia and Serbian Progressive Party (SNS) leader, has allegedly decided to call early general elections. According to pro-government tabloid Alo!, elections will be organized on March 31. Vucic has reportedly made this decision after meeting with top SNS officials. The tabloid did not specify when the alleged meeting was held. Both speculations and …

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We saw each other in the referendum, we will again in the election

01/01/2019 15:36

The year, in which the most daring dreams of a large part of Macedonian citizens began, is coming to its end with political nightmares. Prime Minister Zoran Zaev still believes that in the new 2019, nightmares will become the past, and the dreams that have begun will be fulfilled. – We are nearing the end …

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Interview with Spasovski: The public is rightfully angry over Gruevski’s escape

31/12/2018 15:58

The public is rightfully angry over Nikola Gruevski’s escape, which raises questions about oversights, as well as about the capabilities of the police, admitted Interior Minister Oliver Spasovski. He said they did not have legal rights to follow the former prime minister. At the same time, he claims that the confidence in the MOI is …

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PM Zoran Zaev extends holiday greetings in a video message

30/12/2018 14:03

We are nearing the end of one of the most important and most sensitive years for our country. The year of integration. May we turn our wishes and goals into a reality – a peaceful and stable country, an ally of NATO and a member of the EU, a global and just Macedonia with an …

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President Ivanov extends holiday greetings in New Year’s video address

30/12/2018 12:52

The arrival of a new year sets off in each and every one of us a fresh hope, fresh expectations and a yearning for a more beautiful, happier and careless future. At the very end, we would like to forget this year and we wish the coming year was a year of fulfillment of all …

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Fourth mass protest against President Aleksandar Vucic in Belgrade

30/12/2018 12:38

Serbian citizens protested yesterday against President Aleksandar Vucic and his ruling Serbian Progressive Party in downtown Belgrade. They demanded media freedoms, an end to attacks on journalists and opposition politicians. Supporters of the Alliance for Serbia, an opposition grouping of 30 parties and organizations, say Vucic is an autocrat and his party is corrupt, something …

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Court orders house arrest for Saso Mijalkov

30/12/2018 12:32

A Skopje court ordered house arrest for the former secret police head, Saso Mijalkov, who is one of the defendants in the so called ‘Empire’ case. He is the fifth defendant, after Jordan Kamcev, Nenad Josifovic, Zorica Arsovska and Cvetan Pandelevski, to be put under house arrest. The house arrest motion was submitted to the …

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Dumpster diving for pensioners, market stands for MPs

28/12/2018 17:52

Ilo Trajkovski The educational profession is a noble one. It enriches the students, as well as the educators. When one is committed to their work, works with quality and in a professional manner, it adds a new value to the most important development resource – human knowledge. As explained in the neo-capitalism vocabulary: the educational …

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Macedonia is blackmailed

28/12/2018 17:51

Erol Rizaov The words “Macedonische zuckende”, first used in Europe almost a century ago, do not only mean Macedonian conditions, but tangled Balkan things that cannot be untangled. The equivalent of the German diagnosis initiated after the killings and assassinations in the European cities by Macedonian activists in mutual conflicts is the French “macédoine salade”, …

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Ruling party risks losing power over the Prespa Agreement

28/12/2018 10:22

The latest amendments to the Criminal Code, which will also allow pardoning economic crimes committed during the rule of the former government, have turned even the most hardline of Social Democrats. Believing in a law-abiding state is getting more difficult each day, and what’s even more devastating is that no one can tell with certainty …

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ISIS fighters arrested in Skopje

27/12/2018 18:30

The Skopje Prosecution has charged seven Macedonian nationals with participating in foreign armed forces, police, paramilitary or para-police formations. “The defendants as foreign terrorist fighters actively took part in war conflicts in Syria and Iraq. With an intention to become part of paramilitary formations, they had left Macedonia and traveled to Syria, where they were …

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2019 is our year

27/12/2018 16:06

Petar Arsovski it seems that 2019 will be our year. Hold on, don’t celebrate just yet. 2019 will be our year, but not because everything will go as smoothly, but because everything will depend on us most. This is, for the most part, bad news. The second half of 2018, as Florian Bieber concluded, was …

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Basic Court Skopje: 64 amnesty requests forwarded to Prosecutor’s office

27/12/2018 13:43

Basic Court Skopje 1 said that the amnesty requests by defendants for the 27 April 2017 incidents in Parliament have been forwarded to the Prosecutor’s office. “After getting the opinion from the public prosecutor, the court will take a decision that is to be communicated with the public,” the court said in a press release. The …

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