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Moscow doesn’t like the Prespa apples and it finds Ecuadorian bananas tastier than the Indian

If the pressure from Russia was not that obvious in the Macedonian case with the banned imports of apples from Prespa, the example of Ecuador was pretty straightforward. By skillfully manipulating the business sector, the pressure put on the Ecuadorian leadership hit success and it changed its mind on the US offer to exchange the old Soviet weaponry and...

Regional analysis of the effect of the COVID-19 crisis on Western Balkans media

The COVID-19 pandemic has caused changes in the way the the journalists and the media in general work. Still, depending on the context of each country separately, it can be noticed that the pandemic has a different influence on journalism. This regional analysis is presenting the findings of 10 interviews that were carried out with journalists of four countries...

Opposition MPs who voted for constitutional changes deny Lavrov’s claims

Russia's foreign minister Sergey Lavrov in an interview with the Greek daily newspaper "Ekathiremini", today announced that he blamed the United States an the EU for brutal systematic interference in the internal affairs of Macedonia. In that context, he said that "On October 19, "Parliament passed a resolution on constitutional changes by blackmailing and bribing MPs from the opposition in...

Trade with Russia fell by 13%, reasons are not political but economic

Trade between Macedonia and the Russian Federation has declined by 12.7 percent, less than $ 9.3 million compared to the same period last year, which was pointed out at the forum of the Macedonian-Russian Chamber of Commerce and one-week training on the topic "Peculiarities on the Russian market and a strategy of success (potential, opportunities, realization) ". It is also...

Journalists face pressure even after the shift of power

The government boasted that media workers are freed from political pressure. But, the conduct of some government officials and the journalists’ experience from their everyday work are proof that this is still not true. Threats, pressure, insults, influence – all of these methods are still part of the everyday life in the media sphere, say many journalists from Investigative...

Gruevski: Authorities continue with political smear campaigns and pressure on the judiciary

Former prime minister and current honorary president of VMRO-DPMNE, Nikola Gruevski, after the adjournment of today's hearing for the Trajectory case, which he was late to, again accused those in power of running a political smear campaign against VMRO-DPMNE and putting pressure on the judiciary over cases led by the SPO. He alluded to the double standards of the court...

Gruevski: Voters punished us because we distanced ourselves from our traditional policies

VMRO-DPMNE was punished by their voters because recently, the party had distanced itself from traditional policies and tried to appeal to "others", said opposition party leader, Nikola Gruevski in an interview on "Alfa" TV last night. “VMRO-DPMNE was punished by traditional voters who sent a message to the leadership. We have had a traditional policy in the past 15 years,...

Gjorchev: With the attacks on the municipalities, there is mass political and party repression

The fact is that in Macedonia at the moment, there is political repression everywhere, there are intrusions in the municipalities and there are massive pressures on both the candidates of VMRO-DPMNE and voters and entire groups of citizens, said a member of VMRO-DPMNE, Vladimir Gjorchev. He added that today there was a direct attack on the municipalities of Vevcani, Kriva...

Gruevski: The SPO will not break us, history will be the judge

VMRO-DPMNE has been attacked as never before in history, and the goal is breaking the party and placing it under control for greater goals by the one who created this process, stated the leader of VMRO-DPMNE, Nikola Gruevski at a press conference after charges were filed by the Special Prosecutor's Office today. “It's about a political process, not a legal one....

NGOs demand that inspections and political persecution stop

Today, NGOs called on the new government and institutions to immediately stop political pressure which, they say unfairly and deliberately exposed 20 CSOs since December, when VMRO-DPMNE called for the "persecution" of civil society organizations. “We ask that the basis for the inspections are verified and the misconduct of political pressure and discrimination is investigated.We also ask that the decision...

CIVIL: MOI should prevent attacks on journalists, activists and public personas

CIVIL – Center for Freedom condemned the physical attack on TV 24’s journalist which happened during the protests last night. “This isn’t an isolated incident and it is becoming obvious that the violence is part of the image of the protests from its very beginning. There were attacks on journalists that were doing their job i.e. to inform the general...

Tomorrow at 18:00, GROM will hold a counter-protest near the Constitutional Court

Tomorrow at 18:00 Stevco Jakimovski from GROM will hold a "gathering to support the institutions." The protest will take place in front of the buildings of the Agency for Electronic Communications, and the Prosecution which is near the Constitutional Court, where at the same time another mass protest by civil organizations and SDSM is planned against the court's decision to...

SDSM: Women under pressure to attend an event organised by VMRO-DPMNE

Municipal organization of SDSM in Kavadarci have accused the ruling party for attempting to fill 17 buses with women to attend the annual meeting of the Union of Women of VMRO-DPMNE, on Sunday in Skopje. “Faced with a strong "no" from citizens, the campaign began to put pressure on women employed in the municipal administration and other state institutions in...

“High School Plenum”: We will continue to protest until our demands are met

  Secondary school students today gathered at the City Park in Skopje in protest under the slogan "The struggle continues". The "High School plenum" say their demands remain the same, ie the abolition of external testing and state graduation to remain the same for high school students already enrolled and as for new students a new concept to be formed,...

Graduation will be taken, classes will be boycotted, protest in front of MES

Graduates who protested and boycotted classes will fill applications for state graduation, but won’t end their boycott of classes. They say that the applications will be signed technically, just formally, but they stand behind the requirements because there is no compromise with the authorities. They announced protests for the next three days, which will begin at 5 pm in front...