Neither God nor UNESCO can save Ohrid


EROL RIZAOV We don’t know the exact date when the public warnings of scientists and worldly competent people started in order to protect Ohrid and Ohrid Lake from greedy people, but surely it’s been more than a century. It is tragic knowing that for years now there have been increased appeals and “investments” towards saving […]

Grotesquely against UNESCO


Ivana Nasteska We ourselves are a threat to the world’s cultural heritage and we are not aware of it. This was what UNESCO was telling us, and reminded us again this past year. The Ohrid region, which is the only area in the country protected as a world cultural heritage, is under threat yet again. […]

Cocaine in polarized Macedonia


Aleksandar Nikoloski Vice President of VMRO-DPMNE The title of this column, my dear readers, determines the two topics of which I’m about to write. The title itself speaks volumes about today’s reality in Macedonia. I am aware that this will encounter denial from the government as soon as it comes out, ignoring or explaining that […]

Sale, Done and Aca


Zvonko Davidovic In every society, in the present or the past, there were individuals who were known or recognized in the public, people who meant something in the society, or as one would say, people that were involved in every mess and which were a symbol of the city or the time in which they […]

Crushing the Colorful


Zdravko Saveski As if it wasn’t damaged enough, the so-called Colorful Revolution is finally finished off, crushed, destroyed! A month ago, we first witnessed the charades when participants in the 2016 protests, and explicit supporters of SDSM, through the initiative called “Na megdan (Duel)”, were reactivated to give wind in Stevo Pendarovski’s back after his […]

Bulldozer instead of broom


Ana Pavlovska-Daneva As much as we are interested as a nation in dealing with other people’s lives, we are also as much interested in dealing with the staffing issues of the political parties, with which most of the “active intellectuals” has nothing to do. Probably such a fact should not be a surprise, and it […]

Zaev faces a new and more difficult task


Gjorgji Spasov Less than two years ago, after the bloody events in the Parliament on April 27, no one could be sure in which direction North Macedonia would move. But on June 1, that same year, nearly six months after the end of the country’s general elections, the government headed by Prime Minister Zoran Zaev […]

Who is reconciling with whom


Erol Rizaov The voluntary ideas for civil reconciliation that are becoming louder, to which the newly elected head of the state Stevo Pendarovski “stuck” on their first day in office, are dangerous trial balloons that can destroy the historical peace-time revolution for European, democratic, social, cultural and economic transformation. Putting an olive branch in its […]

Election Lessons


Aleksandar Krzalovski Sunday’s inauguration of Stevo Pendarovski marked the end of the presidential elections. The drama of the uncertain result in the first round did not reflect in the second round, where after the first half of the count, it was clear how it was going to end. The drama was left only for the […]

Art and democracy


Ilo Trajkovski A week has passed since the end of the presidential elections. Numerous analytical attempts have been made to detect the underground forces that filled the ballot boxes. My thinking is not another belated or new revealing attempt in that direction. My goal is to look at the elections from the perspective of art. […]

Inauguration in the shadow of the absent


Erol Rizaov The public in North Macedonia should know the truth why Prime Minister Zoran Zaev, opposition leader Hristijan Mickoski and presidential candidate Gordana Siljanovska-Davkova did not attend the inauguration of the first President of the Republic of North Macedonia, Stevo Pendarovski. The government said Zaev took four days off. Whether Mickoski and Siljanovska really […]

Populism in a European and Macedonian way


Nano Ruzin In the time of Robert Schuman, when the European Union was created, the analysis of the mechanisms of power was quite simple: chain effects would be created by economic unification, resulting in political unification. His contemporary Jean Monnet, in the same style, thought that Europe was not just mathematics. It will not be […]

Petty and pitiful people


Erol Rizaov After losing the elections and declaring victory, VMRO-DPMNE’s top people cannot seem to stop boasting and crying all at the same time over major election irregularities. They talk all over that their victory is clean because it is Macedonian, and the government’s defeat is dirty and rigged because it is a gang of […]

Purple Ohrid


Kostadin Bogdanov The color purple is a shade that is obtained by mixing red and blue. Just as the two major parties skillfully mixed during the two rounds of the presidential elections and the mayoral elections in Ohrid. According to people’s general perceptions, the color purple symbolizes nobility, power, luxury, ambition, creativity, pride, independence… But […]

The Pope’s Mosaic


Goran Adamovski Macedonia was more than a dignified host to Pope Francis. The approximately ten hours that the Holy Father spent on Macedonian soil could convince him of the words he had said before landing at the Skopje airport: “The most beautiful mosaics are the ones that are richest in colors.” The energy that could […]

The government has lost its legitimacy, it’s time for change


Aleksandar Nikoloski Vice President of VMRO-DPMNE If one should evaluate the presidential elections in one sentence, it would be – even though the government won, it is essentially defeated! This is the beginning of the end of Zoran Zaev, SDSM, DUI and this government in general. On one side, we had a candidate supported by […]

May God bless North Macedonia


  Erol Rizaov What messages has been directed by Francis from Skopje to the world and to all the citizens during the first apostolic and historical visit of a pope, who turned the infidels out of the country of departure, Gjorge Ivanov, who until the last day for ten years did not even try to […]

The Population Problem of Macedonia


Nikola Popovski One of the most important traditional features of the population on the European continent, which belongs to Macedonia, is that the continent’s population belongs to the white race and has been Christianized throughout history. These two characters today have not changed, but are under pressure and threats that in the future they can […]

The loud silence of the “Colorful”


Petar Arsovski I think that rather than politicians wondering and suspecting the reasons why the representatives of the “Colorful Revolution” have now appeared, they better ask themselves why they did not vote in the first round of elections. The answer to this question is important mostly because representatives of the “Colorful Revolution” are representatives of […]

Why I’m voting for Pendarovski


Erol Rizaov My readers know that I will vote for Stevo Pendarovski, that is, against any chance, or even the slightest danger to continue hindering and prolonging North Macedonia’s European perspectives, democratization and faster development of the country, and a better life of quality for our future generations. I have spent over 30 of 43 […]