Gruevski is not coming back


Erol Rizaov Nikola Gruevski had just packed his bags to return to his homeland, he had to unpack yet again. A white horse was ordered from Hippodrome’s stable which he wanted to ride to the Skopje square. It was all a big lie and a serious slander. Everything was cut, edited and modified and created …

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Macedonia – Exit or Brexit


Erol Rizaov I was seriously worried that Nikola Gruevski and Hristijan Mickoski have not made any public statements in the past few days. Something very significant must be happening when these two Macedonian figures stay quiet and leave their work to amateurs, models and various screamers in politics and ragged journalism. I could not believe …

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Darling, don’t be a fag


Erol Rizaov “If there’s something to save, Don’t leave, don’t be silly, You go to the door, the key is in your hand, Indecisive walk, I cross my fingers for you and root for you, You put your bag on the floor, Oh darling, don’t be a fag” Riblja Chorba, 1982 I was free to …

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Weeding the vineyard


Erol Rizaov If politicians agree to defend citizens and state interests by enabling the judiciary and the competent institutions to work smoothly in the fight against crime, as criminals do successfully when they agree to rob both the state and the citizens, then Macedonia will thrive. However, if powerful politicians and givers of justice are …

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What did Zaev admit?


Erol Rizaov The decreasing self-esteem of the Government and the more aggressive heirs of Gruevism in the opposition’s leadership create a climate of uncertainty and concern, rather than a reformed environment that is necessary before the start of negotiations with the EU. The great cabinet changes are Prime Minister Zoran Zaev’s clear recognition that things …

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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 …

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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 …

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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 …

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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 …

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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 …

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