4 November 2019
The Minister of Interior, Oliver Spasovski stated that the key factors in Igor Spasov’s escape are the confirmations provided by the prosecutor and the judge, on whose estimations his jail sentence was put on hold with a court decision. When he was replying to a question by a journalist about Igor Spasov’s escape and whereabouts, […]
10 October 2019
Zoran Verushevski, the former Head of the Agency for Security and Counter-Intelligence and a current Security advisor to Zoran Zaev, when asked by the prosecution regarding the illegal wiretapping at the UBK, he said today that Nikola Gruevski should be the prime suspect in this case. According to Verushevski, Gruevski has owned and still owns […]
9 October 2019
VMRO-DPMNE’s party leader Hristijan Mickoski is going to be changing the party’s statute, where the position honorary president will be abolished. In yesterday’s interview for TV 24, Mickoski mentioned that there will be reforms for the party’s democratization upon the example of other Demo-Christian parties in Europe. Still, in the interview, he stressed that the […]
30 July 2019
The opposition party VMRO-DPMNE informs that the president of the party Hristijan Mickoski tomorrow will have a meeting with the Prime Minister of Hungary Viktor Orban. However, the party did not say whether Mickoski will meet with the Honorary president of the party, Nikola Gruevski, who as a fugitive from justice has asylum in Hungary. […]
27 June 2019
The court in Budapest, Hungary, at today’s hearing, decided to reject the request for the extradition of former Macedonian Prime Minister Nikola Gruevski, informs “Index.hu”. The judge announced that this decision, concerning the extradition of the fugitive Gruevski, who should serve a sentence of two years imprisonment for the procurement of a bulletproof Mercedes worth […]
15 May 2019
The President of the Parliament Talat Xhaferi has officially notified the Committee on Rules of Procedure, Mandatory – Immunity Issues that the runaway MP Nikola Gruevski is unjustifiably absent from his working place as an MP at the Parliament. After an official notification, the President of the Committee, Pavle Bogoevski will have to call for […]
13 March 2019
The former prime minister, Nikola Gruevski, a fugitive from justice hiding in Budapest, wrote on his Facebook page that last night’s arrest of former Director of the Public Security Bureau, Mitko Chavkov and the persecution against him is a personal vendetta against him because of the “Bribe” case. Last night Chavkov was taken into custody […]
21 February 2019
In the latest development in the case against the participants in the violence in Parliament on April 27, 2017, yesterday the former Minister of Transport and Communications and former high-ranking official of VMRO-DPMNE, Mile Janakieski, former Minister of Labor and Social Policy and Education, Spiro Ristovski, were taken into custody yesterday, while former Parliament Speaker […]
18 January 2019
Seven civil society organization have demanded resignations of the Minister of Interior Oliver Spasovski, the Director of the Administration for Security and Counterintelligence (UBK), Goran Nikolovski and the Director of the Intelligence Agency (IA) Zoran Ivanov. The NGOs stated that these officials have to bear political responsibility for Nikola Gruevski’s escape. “We think that the […]
2 January 2019
The former Prime Minister Nikola Gruevski didn’t leave the territory of the Republic of Macedonia at any of its border crossings. Many witnesses were interrogated, but in order not to cause damage to the ongoing investigation I can’t reveal other details, said the State Public Prosecutor Ljubomir Joveski in an interview for MIA agency. -The […]
3 December 2018
NATO’s General Secretary, Jens Stoltenberg has remarked that Nikola Gruevski’s asylum is not a NATO-related issue but something that should be solved between Skopje and Budapest. -I’m not the one that should comment this. It’s an issue that should be discussed between Skopje and Budapest, said Stoltenberg at a press conference before the ministerial meeting […]
30 November 2018
there is no announcement from the President of the state, Gjorge Ivanov, that he wants to have an annual address at the Parliament, said the parliamentary speaker, Talat Xhaferri during the briefing with the journalists. -In previous years, we would have received a request from Ivanov, but this years we haven’t received anything. If he […]
27 November 2018
The Commission for Rules of Procedure and Mandate-Immunity Issues, with five votes in favor, adopted the six requests from the Criminal Court to strip MP Nikola Gruevski of his immunity for the purpose of detention. Not a single MP from the opposition VMRO-DPMNE, whose honorary president is Gruevski, was present at the session. The court […]
22 November 2018
Gjorgji Lazarevski and Dzvonko Kostvoski, whose disclosure of the secret wiretappings led to the resignation of Prime Minister Nikola Gruevski in 2016, should immediately be reinstated to the public sector positions they lost in retaliation, demand three NGOs. Transparency International-Macedonia, the Southeast European Coalition on Whistle-blower Protection, and the European Center for Whistle-blower Rights have […]
22 November 2018
The US Department of State is closely following the case with Nikola Gruevski especially since he was granted asylum in Hungary, reports today the Hungarian daily newspaper “Nepszava.” The US Department of State, on request from the Hungarian newspaper, has repeated its position stressing that Gruevski was sentenced to a two-year prison sentence after a […]
20 November 2018
In Belgrade’s first official response, Serbian President Aleksandar Vučić said former Macedonian Prime Minister Nikola Gruevski fled to Hungary via Serbia, but before a warrant was issued and sent to Belgrade. He also said that Gruevski was accompanied by two Hungarian nationals from Macedonia to Albania. This is Belgrade’s first reaction after Gruevski fled Macedonia to […]
19 November 2018
Last week, disinformation that was published by pro-government Serbian daily newspaper “Politika”, lied to a large part of the Albanian media who in turn, shared the news. “Politika”, citing its own sources, claimed that Nikola Gruevski flew to Budapest via Tirana. One of the most well read media outlets in Albania, “Gazeta Mapo”, reported this […]
19 November 2018
While it has been formally claimed that fugitive Macedonian Prime Minister Nikola Gruevski is in Budapest, some articles speculate that he had traveled to Russia or Turkey, reported Serbian pro-government daily newspaper “Politika”. The article points out that both Russia and Turkey maintain diplomatic relations with Skopje, but have clashed over pro-Western policies pursued by […]
13 November 2018
In the last few days I have received numerous threats. I’m in Budapest now and I have asked for political asylum from the Hungarian authorities. I will remain loyal to the Macedonian cause. I will never stand down, wrote Gruevski on his Facebook profile. Gruevski was sentenced to a two year prison sentence in the […]
13 November 2018
Prime Minister Zoran Zaev has said yesterday that he doesn’t expect that the former Prime Minister Nikola Gruevski, for whom there is an arrest warrant – will flee. – I have no information about the operation because I know that MoI has received a warrant from the court to issue an arrest warrant because a […]
