8 March 2023
In the cold and rainy periods, I was waiting in the rain in front of the cafeteria building for one of the kitchen staff to get me my meal and come back. If there was an access ramp, I would have gone myself into the cafeteria and would have eaten my meals with other students. […]
11 January 2023
The scattered waste at Vardarishte, photograph taken on 9th January 2023 by Meta.mk The current Mayor of Gazi Baba municipality, Boban Stefkovski, in his electoral campaign for the local elections that took place in October 2021, promised a cleanup of former Skopje’s landfill Vardarishte and building a sports and recreation center in that specific […]
14 December 2022
(This content is a translation of the original article in Macedonian, published on the 7th of December 2022) The video surveillance systems and the processing of biometric data have an enormous inherent risk of violating privacy, which is one of the human rights, and intrusion of the security services and the authorities in the private […]
13 December 2022
(This content is a translation of the original article in Macedonian, published on the 6th of December 2022) Metamorphosis Foundation for the 18th time organized the international e-Society.mk conference, which started on the 6th of December. The two-day conference in the Marriott hotel in Skopje with the motto “Cyber Resilience for Freedom and Security” started […]
29 August 2022
Portugal has over 10 million citizens and even 21 food banks, which can feed up to 4% of this EU member country’s total population. Their main goal is to fight against throwing all kinds of food as waste and to divert the secured surplus from food distributors to those who need it most – the […]
16 June 2022
In the Novo Lisiche Park, at the outskirts of Skopje, the capital of North Macedonia, 50-some enthusiasts for the second consecutive year have been working in the Bostanie Cooperative Garden. The enthusiasts, including, of course, young people, through training and workshops, can learn gardening and composting, how to protect and nourish the plants, but they […]
13 June 2022
The international traveling exhibition by the Gab Titui Cultural Centre in cooperation with the National Museum of Australia, the Australian Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade and the Australian Embassy in Belgrade, was opened on the 8th of June at the National Gallery of Macedonia’s Mala Stanica venue in Skopje, North Macedonia. The exhibition presents […]
3 June 2022
The main actors in the process of counteracting the effects of the disinformation should be the institutions that are tasked with the creation of media policies, but also the media outlets and the journalists. Still, a systematic approach, with participation of several other factors is essential, said researcher Gjorgji Mitrevski at “The Situations and Challenges […]
16 May 2022
Early this morning, as was previously calculated and in a period of only a few minutes, the Earth moved between the sun and the moon. In those moments, the moon was completely eclipsed, a phenomenon that occurs once every 2 and a half years. This was the first lunar eclipse in 2022 and was vividly […]
5 April 2022
On the occassion of its 10th anniversary, Portalb.mk news site organized a panel discussion with the subject “The vision about North Macedonia,” that was attended by representatives of civil society organizations, the executive power, the local governments, professors and students. Portalb.mk’s Editor in Chief, Elida Zylbeari, stressed that Portalb’s voyage began on the 6th of […]
23 March 2022
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 different collections at one location, along with his documentary films. […]
26 February 2022
Dozens of citizens of North Macedonia and Ukrainians residing in Skopje protested against Russian invasion on Ukraine through a march from the main square of the capital of North Macedonia to the Russian embassy on February 25. They sung Ukrainian songs and shouted “Putin is a fascist, Putin is a murderer” while carrying signs reading […]
16 February 2022
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 was there to record the moments. Meta.mk’ sincerely hopes that the […]
2 February 2022
At the end of the first month of the new year, we produced a photo story together with several domestic photographers who participated with one photograph each, featuring their remembrance of the year 2021. Each of the photographs is presenting different life moments of various people, taken in different situations, presenting the meaning of the […]
1 February 2022
The first 82 days since Mayor Danela Arsovska took over the helm of Skopje, the capital of North Macedonia, expired on Friday, the 28th of January, which prompted Meta.mk to check on site whether one of the most important promises that Arsovska gave in her election campaign was fulfilled: cleanup of the illegal dumps throughout […]
20 December 2021
In the past several decades, the villages of Tabanovce, Lojane and Vaksince in the Kumanovo region have been continuously poisoned by arsenic and other toxic elements that had been dispersed on two locations near the border of North Macedonia with Serbia. At the first location, in the proximity of the Tabanovce Railway Station there is […]
30 October 2021
Zhivka Gjurchinovska is a woman who has no problem driving a tractor. She is a diligent farmer and a mother of three. They live in the village of Tumchevishte, in the Gostivar area in the northwestern part of North Macedonia. Gjurchinovska has been a farmer for the past 20 years and a professional farmer in […]
28 October 2021
Located 10 km from the center of the city of Gostivar, in the west of the Republic of North Macedonia, is one of the largest landfills in the country. One rainy October day, the journalistic team from Meta.mk and Portalb.mk, visited the Rusino landfill and during their brief visit shot shocking scenes. Apart from the […]
14 October 2021
A children’s playground with Russian thematic was built behind the Universal Hall at Skopje’s city center during the local election campaign in North Macedonia. The playground, where the children from the surrounding buildings are supposed to play, has a floor with the map of the Russian Federation and the name of the state Russia is […]
30 July 2021
The heatwave that swept North Macedonia at the start of this week, will most likely last another week. In the capital Skopje, the temperatures rose to 40ºC and the National Hydrometeorological Service (UHMR) forecast 42ºC for the capital. The scorching heat has brought Orange alert for the country. How does Skopje function at 40ºC? Meta.mk’s […]
