Tag: gruevski
Macedonia 26.02.19 | 20:39

Gruevski: It is arranged that I receive maximum sentences in each of the cases against me

In his exclusive interview with Republika, former VMRO leader Hristijan Mickoski says that he expects the courts to sentence him to the maximum possible prison sentences in each of the cases in which he has been charged. In all these cases I will be given the maximum prison sentence, even though none...

Macedonia 26.02.19 | 11:45

Gruevski: Zaev’s Government reduced the dignity of the Macedonian state to that of a common street walker

Former VMRO leader and Macedonian Prime Minister Nikola Gruevski, who was deposed by the SDSM led Colored Revolution and now lives in political exile in Hungary, gave an exclusive interview to Republika in which he discussed the continued persecution of his associates who face threats from the Kumanovo...

Macedonia 24.02.19 | 13:33

Another commander of the Albanian terror group threatens Mickoski and VMRO

Sami Ukshini, one of the captured leaders of the 40 strong group of Albanian terrorists who attacked Kumanovo in May 2015 killing eight Macedonian officers, joined in the chorus of threats aimed against VMRO-DPMNE and its current and former leadership. On Thursday, members of the group attacked two former...

Macedonia 21.02.19 | 16:16

Prosecutor Ruskoska charges Gruevski with calling on the public to protest

following an open call from former Prime Minister Nikola Gruevski that state prosecutors clarify the charges against him, prosecutor Vilma Ruskoska said that he is charged after he was calling on the public to join the protests in 2017. The suspect N.G. was a leader of a political party and he was using...

Macedonia 21.02.19 | 12:37

Gruevski says terrorism charges against him are part of Zaev’s political persecution, demands that prosecutors reveal their evidence

Former Prime Minister and VMRO leader Nikola Gruevski responded to the arrest of former Parliament Speaker Trajko Veljanoski and ministers Mile Janakieski and Spiro Ristovski, and the latest round of charges against himself, this time for “terrorist endangerment of the constitutional order”....

Macedonia 18.02.19 | 09:35

Gruevski: Macedonia is no longer a democracy

In an interview with a Serbian TV station, Nikola Gruevski says that he considers the on-going political persecution of the opposition in Macedonia to be a serious political problem and a source of shame for the country. Hundreds of officials and activists of the conservative VMRO-DPMNE party are facing...

Macedonia 06.02.19 | 17:29

Gruevski calls for paradigm shift in the battle for the Macedonian name and identity (part 2)

Shortly after the signing of the NATO accession protocol, former Prime Minister Nikola Gruevski published the second part of his remarks calling for a paradigm change in the name issue and the battle for Macedonian statehood and national identity. In it Gruevski expands on the first part of his remarks,...

Macedonia 06.02.19 | 14:12

Prosecutors will not file charges in the case of Gruevski’s escape to Hungary

According to the Public Prosecutor’s Office, none of the 56 persons questioned were found to be responsible for the way in which former Prime Minister Nikola Gruevski was able to leave the country and reach Hungary where he sought political asylum. Facing arrest on politically motivated criminal...

Macedonia 06.02.19 | 13:16

Gruevski announces a new battle for the Macedonian name and identity after the country joins EU and NATO

Former Macedonian Prime Minister Nikola Gruevski, who lives as political emigre in Hungary after being deposed in a “colored revolution” issued a lengthy call for a “new paradigm” in the fight for the Macedonian name and statehood. Its corner stone is to continue the battle from...

Macedonia 02.02.19 | 18:32

Gruevski: I left the country via Albania, let the authorities discover the details of the escape as they promised

Nikola Gruevski, Macedonia’s ex-prime minister, said Saturday in an interview with Sitel TVthat he had fled the country via Albania before reaching Hungary where he was granted political asylum, but did not disclose the details of his movement. “From Macedonia, I went to Albania, where I requested...

Macedonia 29.01.19 | 21:33

Albania deleted recordings showing Gruevski cross its border into Montenegro

Albanian Customs officers apparently erased the recordings showing former Macedonian Prime Minister Nikola Gruevski going through a border crossing with Albania, during his trip to Hungary where he claimed political asylum in November. Macedonian authorities, who say they are investigating how Gruevski...

Macedonia 29.01.19 | 18:28

Milososki asks Dimitrov why he insisted to work for Gruevski if he disliked him so much?

Speaking at the Parliament session on the no confidence motion for Foreign Minister Nikola Dimitrov, Antonio Milososki from VMRO-DPMNE described how Dimitrov was asking to be admitted to the inner circle of former Prime Minister Nikola Gruevski. In 2008 the President decided to dismiss his special envoy...

Macedonia 20.01.19 | 12:47

Video of disappointed SDSM supporter praying for Gruevski’s return goes viral

A video of a former SDSM supporter calling into a pro-Government TV station went viral in Macedonia. In the video, the caller says that he can’t forgive himself for working to bring down the Nikola Gruevski Government, only to have Macedonia renamed and humiliated and the economy ran into the ground...

Macedonia 26.12.18 | 15:03

Zaev blames Vucic, Orban and Mickoski for Gruevski’s escape

In a TV interview, Prime Minister Zoran Zaev again accused the leaders of Serbia and Hungary Aleksandar Vucic and Viktor Orban in helping former Prime Minister Nikola Gruevski leave the country. This time, Zaev also accused current VMRO-DPMNE leader Hristijan Mickoski. Asked how was it possible that...