Sasko G. Dimovski Vardar recorded the second season of the handball series of fairy tales titled “Masters of the Champions League”. The returning of elite trophy in Skopje raised the citizens to their feet and kept them up long into the night. Songs, chants (at times tasteless and with political connotation and hate speech, but …
Petar Arsovski VMRO-DPMNE in a statement, alluding to the fact that they would not mind much if Gruevski’s mandate is revoked, quite pompously announced their conclusion that the law was equal for all. The mantra sounds a bit ironic while Gruevski remains the honorary president of the party, especially given the fact that the fervor …
Rumena Buzharovska I was part of the “Colorful Revolution”. I’m proud of that fact. The scenes in which crowds of people, after many years of silence and fear devotedly and regularly took the streets, chanted together and with color balloons smashed the disgusting monuments – symbols of repression and corruption, symbols materialized in the criminal …
ILO TRAJKOVSKI Over the past two weeks, after the second round of the presidential elections, there have been several events that call for providence. For example, Pendarovski’s inauguration in the absence of his main promoter; welcoming and sending off the pope; the success of Tamara Todevska at Eurovision; and recently the “Bogoevski” affair is boiling …
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 …
Borce Davitkovski The question of what and how big are the dilemmas that the reform of the entire public sector is facing can be analyzed from several aspects and sought in a series of phenomena and situations. If we fail to get a date for EU accession talks in June, it would be likely a …
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. …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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. …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
