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How Kurir, BHDijaspora and the Russian Chernigovski “cured cancer” with abstention from the truth

The day before yesterday, with only one article published by a news site in North Macedonia, several rules of journalism were violated and at the same this incident confirmed that in the digital era it is very easy to spread disinformation, regardless of the fact that all tools for checking the facts are at our disposal, i.e. for ascertaining...

Charges against four employees of the Secret Police for embezzlement of 824,000 euros for “special purposes”

The Basic Public Prosecutors Office for Prosecution of Organized Crime and Corruption announced that it ended its investigation that started in March this year and filed an indictment for four employees of the Directorate for Security and Counterintelligence (UBK), i.e the Secret Police. According to the prosecutors, the four persons in the period of 25th of January to 30th of...

US dollar is the favorite foreign currency by Macedonian counterfeiters

Experts on submitted suspicious banknotes and coins in the past year found counterfeit denars, US dollars and euros, shows the latest report by the National Bank. From a total of 1,031 probes into suspicious foreign currency, 919 were counterfeit while 112 were original. In the total number of counterfeit notes, the most common was the US dollar (731 pieces) and...

The referendum will cost 3.5 million euros

The decision adopted in Parliament on Wednesday adopted for the redistribution of funds between budget users, which provides 3.5 million for the implementation of the name referendum is to be held on September 30. The Ministry of Finance says that the redistribution reduces smaller sums from larger budget users and allocates 210.4 million denars for the implementation of the referendum. According...

Tanturovski: I will not resign because I do not feel responsible

I do not feel responsible, I was not named as responsible in the report and for that reason I do not intend to resign, said the Chairman of the State Commission for Preventing Corruption, (SCPC) Igor Tanturovski for “A1on” after the scandal of the Commission’s spending came to light. “The report was conducted for internal use, but the purpose of...

AJM: The government should urgently settle MRT’s debt so we are not cut off from the EBU

The Association of Journalists of Macedonia (AJM) called on the Government to urgently, as soon as possible, provide money to settle the debt of the Macedonian "Radio-Television" (MRT) has towards the European Broadcasting Union (EBU), which is approximately half a million euros. Yesterday, at the session of the MRT Program Council, they came to the conclusion to ask the Government to...

Zaev: MRT shall be an independent media, with an independent manager and independent editors

The assets that will be used from the state budget and diverted to the Macedonian Radio Television (MRTV) will be used for providing an independence of the national service, said the SDSM's party leader and Prime Minister Zoran Zaev during yesterday's political rally in Tetovo as part of the local election campaign. -Up to 80.000 -100.000 accounts are being...

VMRO-DPMNE: Why is Rashkovski silent and hasn’t resigned yet?

The Government's General Secretary, Dragi Rashkovski, is silent and is not answering until when does he plan to break the law and why isn't he resigning, since it is illegal to be a General Secretary at the Government, and at the same time to be a President of the Shareholder's Assembly at the "Makedonski Telekom" for a fee of...

Peshevski, Naumoff and Samak owe the state 300.000 euros for telephone bills

The former ministers in the government led by VMRO-DPMNE, Vladimir Peshevski, Goran Mickovski, Jerry Naumof, Vele Samak and Bill Pavleski owe the state 300.000 euros for going overboard with the limits on their work telephones, said the Government's General Secretary, Dragi Rashkovski for the SDK portal. A champion in overriding the limit on his mobile work phone in a...

Gruevski’s cabinet has spent 38 million euros on campaigns and propaganda

The cabinet of the former Prime Minister, Nikola Gruevski, during the period between 2008 and 2015 spent 38 million of euros from the budget, on campaigns that were broadcast on television and electronic media, informed today at a press conference, the governments spokesperson Mile Boshnjakovski. He also said that this sum doesn't include the expenditures from the campaigns led in...

Ivanov demands more money for ARM while Šekerinska calls upon faster membership into NATO

Last night, at the Army's stadium in the City park in Skopje, a central celebration took place to mark the 25th anniversary of the forming of the Army of Republic of Macedonia. During the celebration, which began by firing artillery weapons, the President Gjorge Ivanov and the Minister of Defense, Radmila Šekerinska addressed the attendees. The Head of the State...

Today the Commission of Finance and Budget will continue to discuss the budget revision

Today at 10:30am, the Commission for Finance and Budget will have the fifth session discussing the Government's proposed budget revision for 2017. Prior to the beginning of the discussion, VMRO-DPMNE and SDSM were still having the same party views regarding the budget revision. VMRO-DPMNE said that "SDS are continuously and shamelessly putting citizens in debt", SDSM said again that "the...

BIRN: Foreign Investors invested seven times less than what was announced

Foreign investors invested seven times less than what was announced and there are three times fewer jobs than promised, shows the database "Foreign investment under scrutiny" prepared by the journalistic team BIRN Macedonia. The survey looked at 138 investments which were announced or promoted by the government from 2007 to 2016. It shows that 43 foreign investments were not realized...

Borisov: Now Is Not the Time Nor in Bulgaria’s Interest To Join the Schengen Area

Now is not the time for our country to become part of the Schengen Area, and the joining of our country in this area will not help us, said Bulgarian Prime Minister Boyko Borisov. “Everyone says that Bulgaria should immediately become a member of the Schengen area. But, this is not in our best interest at this time. On the...

No initiative for emergency session in Parliament concerning the floods

Currently, there has been no official initiative to hold an emergency session of Parliament, which is on a collective vacation, and the first scheduled session will be on the 24th of this month. No-one from the Office of Public Affairs is available on the phone. The Parliamentary Group, the SDSM say that so far they have not received any invitation for...

Macedonians living in the USA have reported fraud over flights worth up to 270.000 denars

Two Macedonians living in Indiana, USA, reported to the Prilep police they had been conned by the owner of the travel agency "Travel Tales", Jasmina Jordanoska-Chebrenska, who allegedly offered them cheap flights, "Meta" has learned. In fact, according to them, the offer came through the singer Elena Jovcevska from Prilep, who performed for the Macedonian community in the United States. Jovcevska,...

Macedonian residents in USA fall prey to cheap flight ticket scam

Macedonians residing in the USA have been the target of a scam that apparently promises cheap flights to Skopje. The scam was originally noticed by the Macedonian Diaspora during the New Year celebration. Ljupco Stanchevski, a resident of Columbus, Ohio for 25 years, told "Meta" it was while celebrating a New Year in the city, at a party, that...

Ratajkovski will receive money from the State to film a documentary about birds, Shilegov points out

The editor in chief of the first program service of the State Macedonian Television ,Dime Ratajkovski, is part of a project that the government will be granting 30,000 euros of the state's money too, Petre Shilgeov, spokesmen of the SDSM said at Monday's press conference accusing the state of more questionable behavior. "From all the famous writers, from all the record...

The Ministry of Finance: SEC’s budget reduced because there is no date for elections

The budget for the SEC is set to be reduced because of the absence of a precise date for elections, the Ministry of Finance has said after reports became public, showing that the proposal re-balance of the budget will cut the State Election Commissions funding by 400 million denars. From the beginning of the year, it has been estimated that...

With the re-balance, more money for the Constitutional Court, MOI and the Intelligence Agency

The proposal re-balance for the budget will cut the budgets at a majority of state institutions, but this is not the case for the Constitutional Court, the Ministry of Interior, or the Intelligence Agency. For example, the budget for 2016, funds allocated for the Constitutional Court are 35.945.000 denars, and with the proposal rebalance that amount will be 36.645.000 denars. In...