North Macedonia: Low salaries deter young students from choosing teaching careers
The low salaries and the sizable administrative work in the education, but also the disrespect toward the teaching profession, is the reason that fewer and fewer prospective students in North Macedonia are choosing university studies in mathematics, chemistry, physics and biology. There are elementary...
Violence against women has been promoted in the Balkans through popular music for 40 years
Ana Ninković, a student at the Faculty of Drama Arts in Belgrade caused numerous reactions on the social networks with her documentary film "Violence against women in the domestic songs" that she produced for her exam in "Pop Culture: From digital to trans-media", and...
Joint railway border crossing with Serbia will be built in Tabanovce, still no solution for the stored nearby arsenic
The police, customs, and phytosanitary border controls of passenger and freight trains between North Macedonia and Serbia will be performed at a joint railway border crossing which is planned to be built at the Tabanovce railway station. The facility which is yet to be...
Cleanup of landfills and dumps in eastern North Macedonia has been constantly postponed for a year
From March last year, through April and September, to the new promise for the current spring. This is the series of promises that had been given in the past year about the start of the cleanup of the non-standard municipal landfills and dumps that are...
Census 2021: Almost 35% of population of North Macedonia aged 29 or less
In North Macedonia, there are 638.000 people up to 29 years of age, which is 34.7% of the total resident population in the country. According to the last census performed last year, this is 1,836,713 people. On the other hand, there are 419,125 people...
Petition in North Macedonia to rename street in front of Russian Embassy to “Ukraine Street”
As of Monday, the 28th of March, the citizens of North Macedonia have the opportunity to sign the petition named "Ukraine Street" to plea Skopje City Hall to rename Pirin Street, the Embassy of the Russian Federation is located on - to Ukraine Street,...
Skopje City Hall keeps its silence on idea for suburban rail transit in capital of North Macedonia
The 4-decade long idea of introducing suburban rail transit as an addition to the bus public transportation system in Skopje isn't welcomed with open arms by the current city authorities. The Skopje Region has 95 km of railroad track at its disposal which isn't...
Montenegrin teenagers publish an antiwar song for the children of Ukraine
Young Montenegrin singers Milica Radan and Komnen Vuković, together with the choir D-mol, published a video clip for their antiwar song devoted to the children of Ukraine "Vratite nam snove" ("Bring back our dreams") on March 17.
The song is a message demanding an end...
Ai Weiwei’s exhibition “In Search of Humanity” at the Albertina Modern Museum in Vienna
Author: Bojan Blazhevski
On the 16th of March, at the Albertina Modern Museum in Vienna, a comprehensive retrospective exhibition by the renowned Chinese artist and dissident Ai Weiwei was opened. The exhibition named "In Search of Humanity" gathers in one place Weiwei's artworks coming from...
Public Room court case ends with 4-year prison sentences for publishers of private nude photos
The Basic Criminal Court Skopje at the end of the last week sentenced the two convicted in the "Javna Soba" (Public Room) trial to 4 years prison sentences. This group on Telegram was used for sharing private nude photos or videomaterials of girls and...
The poisoning and the poaching exterminated the wild animals in North Macedonia, but still no fines for the eco crimes
The poisoning, the poaching and the illegal trade are among the main threats to North Macedonia's wildlife. The Egyptian vulture and the Balkan lynx are on the verge of extinction and the bear, the wolf, the fox and the jackal are also under great...
Young people in North Macedonia use public transport because they have to, but dream of driving cars
The popularity of public transport in North Macedonia is in a constant decline, especially among young people. Most young people use public transport because they get free monthly passes and have no other options. Most of them would have chosen cars as their preferred...
Apart from decreasing parking fees from March, Skopje City Hall has no solution for parking space problem
The number of cars on the streets of the capital of North Macedonia is spiraling up and, consequently, so is the lack of parking spots. People from different parts of Skopje are complaining every day that they are cruising for 10 minutes before they...
The carcinogenic hexavalent chromium from the Jegunovce dump beseting people’s health continiously
Since the start of operation of Jugohrom industrial complex, in 1955, at Jegunovce in the northwest of now North Macedonia, little attention was paid to the protection of the environment, especially to the resulting pollution of the underground and the surface waters in this...
Skopje City Hall fails to publish map with over 150 cleaned illegal dumps
The cleanup of all illegal dumps and landfills in 82 days and the revitalization of the areas and their transformation into clean green spaces was an election promise of Mayor Danela Arsovska for the very start of her mandate at the helm of Skopje....
[Photos] Giraffes and lemurs celebrated Valentine’s Day at the Skopje Zoo
Valentine's Day was also celebrated by some of the animals at the Skopje Zoo, the largest zoological garden in North Macedonia. The employees of the Zoo in the capital of North Macedonia were hanging out with the giraffes and the lemurs, and Meta.mk's photojournalist...
Concessionaire terminates contract for arsenic exploitation at Lojane, North Macedonia
Turkish company Kaltun Madencilik A.Ş submitted a request to the Ministry of Economy of North Macedonia for unilateral termination of the concession agreement due to lack of economic interest for further execution of the concession to exploit the deposited arsenic, informed the Ministry of...
Although the gender gap in science and research is decreasing, it is still present
The significant gap between the genders in the fields of science and technology has been present for many years, but situation in recent years has started to improve, at least in North Macedonia.
The International Day of Women and Girls in Science is celebrated on...
We are complaining in vain that the waste is poisoning us if we are preventing the building of modern landfills
The postponement of the building of regional landfills in the country is only to the detriment of the people and the living environment. Apart from polluting the soil, water, and air, the existing municipality landfills are of limited capacity and one day they will...
PE Communal Hygiene selected only 0.32% of total waste collected in Skopje in 2021
In 2021, the community hygiene public enterprise (PE) of Skopje, the “Komunalna higiena - Skopje” (PE Communal Hygiene - Skopje) has managed to select and bale 538.8 tons of waste. The total quantity of collected waste last year was 166,678 tons. This means that...
