Defendants in “Agent”: Our case is a criminal and political construction
In a press release, Slobodan Bogoevski, Vlado Peshlikovski and Vasko Tomanovik, who were recently sentenced to prison in the “Agent” case and whose verdicts were confirmed by the Court of Appeal, claim that the case has a criminal-political background, which was designed by the...
Government announced an advertisement for directors, consul and promoters
Macedonian Government opened a public announcement for engagement of four senior officials, of who, two senior managerial positions in the Government and two in the Agency for Foreign Investments and Export Promotion.
The announcement of the Government is meant for choosing a director for the...
Ahmeti met with Belgian Ambassador Van Calster
President of Democratic Union for Integration, Ali Ahmeti, held a meeting with Belgian Ambassador Anick Van Calster. The Embassy of Belgium based in Sofia, Bulgaria, is also a diplomatic mission for Macedonia.
At the meeting, the interlocutors discussed the current situation in the country and...
Jankuloska: Recruitment of foreign fighters in ISIS is troublesome
Fifteen people from Macedonia were killed in military conflicts in Syria and Iraq as volunteers - jihadists, since departure of persons from the country in these military hot spots was registered in the middle of 2012, it was said, among other things, in the...
Borko the Macedonian riot dog
According to the photos citizens shared on the social network Facebook, Borko appeared at several protests, marches and events to promote cycling. As it is posted on Facebook, Borko ("the one who fights") got its name because of the presence on the protests, the...
Brussels: First meeting of Besimi with Federica Mogherini
Macedonian Deputy Prime Minister for European Integration Fatmir Besimi yesterday afternoon met with the newly appointed High Representative of the EU for Foreign Affairs, Federica Mogherini. They discussed “the challenges the country is facing,” reads the statement made late last night.
Besimi and Mogherini stressed...
Nedelkovski and Ilkovski received criminal charges for spreading hatred speech
Criminal charges against Janko Ilkovski and Milenko Nedelkovski were filed by Coalition for sexual and health rights of marginalized communities. The charges were submitted for spreading hatred speech, inciting violence and discrimination against members of the LGBT community, reported “Nova”.
-This is not an isolated...
Ademi: There is still no concrete proposal for the state exam
After today’s visit to Tetovo primary school “Migjeni”, Minister of Education Abdilakim Ademi once again reiterated the same view that there is still no concrete proposal for the state exam, reported Radio Free Europe.
- As we already said, when we come out with a...
Macedonia is outside terrorism map
Hundreds of experts from 13 countries in the world are trying to come up with a strategy for successfully dealing with cyber-terrorism at a conference in Ohrid organized under the Advanced School for cyber-security and cyber-defense of NATO and hosted by Military Academy “General...
E-society.mk: Internet is the freest media
Metamorphosis Foundation organized 10th anniversary international conference “E-society.mk” on topic “Human Rights on the Internet – Freedom of expression, hate speech and privacy in the digital world”. A handbook on privacy protection and responsible use of the Internet, as well as the mobile application...
Ademi and Ristovski to resign or Malcheski will sue
Risto Malcheski, professor at FON, demands the Minister of Education Abdilakim Ademi and his deputy Spiro Ristovski to resign from office. The professor’s reaction is triggered by the letter that the Ministry of Education sent to FON with a request to state their opinion...
Police interrogated the boy who recorded the student’s protest with a drone
On its Twitter account, Student's Plenum announced that the police apprehended the boy who recorded the student protest of aerial perspective with a drone. The following information is that the boy was released, while the footages and the drone remained in the police. MOI...
Human Rights Fair in the EU Info Centre
The Human Rights Fair marked International Human Rights Day at the EU Info Centre today. Non-governmental organizations working for the promotion of human rights were presented on it.
Several organizations that promote freedom of media and freedom of speech and non-governmental organizations working for reduction...
Student’s march: Rushed reforms result with “blind” students!
Students submitted a letter with demands to the Government at the end of the second student march organized by the informal student organization “Student Plenum”. Despite the pressure, the march was massive, with twice more people than the first march that took place on...
BAS: All Macedonian dialects are Bulgarian
Bulgarian Academy of Sciences (BAS) classified the Macedonian language and its dialects as part of Bulgarian dialectology. BAS and the Institute of Bulgarian Language, with financial assistance from the European Social Fund of the European Union, two days ago promoted internet audio-map of 30...
MOI: Detonation in Tetovo and Kumanovo were in front of the police stations
In today’s newsletter on its website, the Ministry of Interior officially informed that last night explosions went off near police stations in Tetovo and Kumanovo.
“On 9th of December 2014, from 8:00 to 8:30 pm, in SOI Tetovo and SOI Kumanovo was reported detonations were...
We fight corruption only with debates and forums
The website of the State Anti-Corruption Commission holds more information about debates, forums and public events rather than information about procedures initiated by the Commission. Namely, from June to today, the website of the SACC had only six notifications for procedures, seven announcements for...
Ademi writes to Rector: This is how the state exam would look like
META came across a document sent by the Ministry of Education and Science and signed by the Minister Abdilakim Ademi to the rector of the University “Ss. Cyril and Methodius “, Velimir Stojkovski, on 5th of December, which explains the model of the national...
There is no assessment, but the Coat of Arms will be cheap
Authorities haven’t made analysis on how much would the announced change of the Coat of Arms cost the citizens, i.e. how much money from the budget would be appropriated for the changes in the means of application of the Coat of Arms.
Despite Government’s assurances...
DPA: Government should withdraw the proposal for the new Coat of Arms
The proposal to change the Coat of Arms is fully a symbol of one ethnicity, accused DPA today.
- The imposition of such a symbol as Coat of Arms certainly doesn’t contribute positively in a country where the ethnic composition and the reality is different...
