The documentary shows and series with historical content produced in co-production with independent production houses in the period between 2013 – 2015 amounted to a total of 1.8 million euros, shows BIRN’s research into co-production contracts concluded in 2013, 2014 and 2015.
The recorded contents are an audiovisual reflection of the architectural “Skopje 2014” project, ie an attempt through the small screens to convey the message to the “biblical” people with continuity from Alexander the Great, all the way through to the Saints Cyril and Methodius, to ASNOM and the independence of Macedonia, said the authors of the research published on “Prizma”.
The Skopje 2014 series with the working title “Skopje continues” cost only 7,000 euros for 14 episodes. This series, in addition to the conversation in the “bombs” between the then Prime Minister, Nikola Gruevski and the then Minister of Transport and Communications, Mile Janakieski, in which the then Prime Minister requests the budget of the Agency for Electronic Communications (AEC) to provide a half a million euros, which is how much they “owed to the documentaries”, and went on to say that this television mega “directing” is being dome by those in power. Thus, in “Skopje continues” interlocutors are Nikola Gruevski, former Minister of Culture, Elizabeta Kanceska-Milevska, former Mayor of Centar municipality, Vladimir Todorovic and historians, the research says.
The importance of this project for television representation of the history of the then government, is reflected in the very short repeats of the recorded contents of the public broadcasting service and then on other televisions that were considered “friendly” to the former government of Gruevski.
