Wednesday, 17 July 2019
Macedonia 17.07.19 | 23:23

Xhaferi: Authorities to investigate the case with Katica Janeva

Parliament Speaker Talat Xhaferi says it is important to support the existence of the Special Public Prosecutor’s Office, but that the authorities should investigate the case with Katica Janeva, Voice of America in Macedonian language reported. I am one of the signatories on the existing Law on...
Macedonia 17.07.19 | 22:38

Senior DUI official orders El Cheka’s assassination

Sheqerim Ahmeti, known as El Cheka, told US justice authorities that anassassination attempt is being orchestrated against him, newspaper Lajm source have said. According to the source, the person who ordered the assassination is a senior DUI official who last month spent two to three days in Chicago,...
Macedonia 17.07.19 | 22:13

Army soldiers ordered to remove the name Macedonia from their uniforms

Army soldiers were ordered to remove the name Macedonia from their uniforms, Army sources told Republika. According to Republika’s information, last week, after reading the order at the morning parade, the garrisons were ordered to remove the inscription “Macedonia”, which is on the...
World 17.07.19 | 21:16

Police in Brazil shut down factory making fake Ferraris and Lamborghinis

Police in Brazil say they’ve shut down a clandestine factory that was producing fake Ferraris and sham Lamborghinis, Guardian reported. A father and son who owned the workshop in the southern state of Santa Catarina have been arrested on industrial property charges. Police said the cars were being...
Balkans 17.07.19 | 20:57

Albania banned television from broadcasting Ceca’s songs

Albania’s Agency for Audiovisual Media (AMA) has warned Albanian national broadcaster not to broadcast songs to singer Svetlana Radatovic (Ceca Velichkovic), the wife of the late Jelko Radvanovic Arkan, after complaints that a minority program broadcast a song the Serbian singer. The decision was...
Macedonia 17.07.19 | 20:50

Mickoski-Byrnes: VMRO-DPMNE’s key strategic interest is Macedonia’s NATO and EU membership

VMRO-DPMNE leader Hristijan Mickoski held Wednesday the first official meeting with the new US ambassador Kate Byrnes. Mickoski, as the party informed, said that he welcomed the ambassador and expressed hope that the cooperation during the course of her mandate will be aimed at improving the strategic...
Macedonia 17.07.19 | 19:49

First people of UBK dismissed

Goran Nikolovski, director of the Administration for Security and Counterintelligence (UBK) and his deputy director Arif Asani, are on the list for dismissal proposed by the Government today. Their dismissal comes shortly after the establishment of the National Security Agency (NSA). The new National...
Macedonia 17.07.19 | 19:35

Zaev’s transparent government erases negative comments on social networks

Transparency as a strong side has been repeatedly promoted by Prime Minister Zoran Zaev and his Government. He does not miss a press conference without saying that he is transparent, open and accessible. However, this promise proved to be unfulfilled during Wednesday’s press conference that went...
Macedonia 17.07.19 | 18:25

Government to remove Kutlesh star from buildings and public space by August 12

Fourteen days is the deadline given to the institutions to present a list of objects, as well as a public space where the symbols related to ancient Hellen history, which include the Kutlesh star, are featured. The General Secretariat of the Government told Telma that a request has been sent to the institutions...
Macedonia 17.07.19 | 17:47

Boki 13 and Zoki Kicheec remain in custody – their appeals have been rejected

The Criminal Council of the Basic Criminal Court – Skopje rejected the appeals of Bojan Jovanovski and Zoran Mileski. According to the Criminal Court, acting on the appeals filed against decisions of a pre-trial judge dated July 15, 2019, the Criminal Council of the Basic Criminal Court –...
Macedonia 17.07.19 | 17:38

Zaev does not know who are Kiki and Friki, Boki 13 has been friends with many politicians

An attempt to avoid a specific answer to a specific question – this how it can be commented on Prime Minister Zoran Zaev’s response to the journalist’s question as to whether he knows who are Kiki and Friki from the stories of journalist Branko Geroski for the racketeering that proved...
Macedonia 17.07.19 | 17:02

Geroski: At least six other people involved in racketeering

His stories, published on the Plus Info news portal for “Koki and Kiki”, became clearer after Bojan Jovanovski and Zoran Milevski were detained. Both are charged with racketeering, and this is exactly what the journalist Branko Gerovski wrote in the texts. He told TV21 that more people are...
Macedonia 17.07.19 | 15:53

Zaev removes Skopje Customs director who let Boki 13 off the hook when he was caught smuggling designer shoes

Among those replaced in Zoran Zaev’s latest purge of public officials is Zlatko Kofilovski, the head of the Skopje Customs Office. Kofilovski was in the news in the spring of 2018, when it was reported that he stopped a customs procedure against Bojan Jovanovski – Boki 13, who was caught...
Macedonia 17.07.19 | 15:45

Boki 13 sent to the “luxurious” “Hague wing” of the Sutka prison

The management of the Sutka prison near Skopje informed that Bojan Jovanovski – Boki 13 was sent to the so-called Hague wing of the prison, which has the best living standards in the otherwise horrific prison. The name derives from the Hague tribunal, as a wing of the prison was “spruced...
Macedonia 17.07.19 | 15:33

UNESCO can rest easy: Tub removed from lake Ohrid and Zaev says he will tear down Nefi Useini’s pizza place

Macedonia’s main tourism attraction, lake Ohrid and its important cultural sites, faces the danger of losing the coveted UNESCO world heritage site, because of the widespread neglect, pollution and unchecked development. After a series of blows in the past year, a widely shared picture of a tub...
Macedonia 17.07.19 | 15:18

Prosecutors deny reports that Janeva faced arrest on Monday evening

State prosecutors told the A1on news site that they did not have an arrest warrant for Special Prosecutor Katica Janeva on Monday, when they went to her house and seized the one phone Janeva still had on her. The MKD.mk news site reported that Janeva faced arrest for her role in the Boki 13 scandal,...
Macedonia 17.07.19 | 15:09

Purge: 30 managers of public companies, including a few big ones, dismissed by the Government

The Zoran Zaev Government announced that it will remove about 30 managers of public institutions, as part of the promised “purge” of corrupt and incompetent officials. The list includes the managers of some of the main cash cows, such as the manager of the ELEM company Dragan Minovski, and...
Macedonia 17.07.19 | 15:01

Man chased by a woman waving a meat cleaver in Skopje

A dramatic incident was caught on tape today at the Leptokarija shopping center in downtown Skopje. Residents recorded a fight between a man and a woman, who confronted another man. The woman is waving what appears to be a meat cleaver during the incident. Several passers by tried to calm down the people...
Macedonia 17.07.19 | 14:52

Zoran Zaev condemns El Cheka for publishing wiretaps about his coalition partner Ali Ahmeti

Zoran Zaev, who took over the office of Prime Minister of Macedonia by publishing often edited wiretaps of his political opponents today condemned Sekerim Ahmeti, the leaker known as El Cheka, for publishing wiretaps that throw a poor light on his coalition partner Ali Ahmeti and his DUI party. This...
Macedonia 17.07.19 | 14:06

Nikoloski: The Boki 13 scandal was only revealed thanks to international pressure to begin fighting crime

VMRO-DPMNE deputy leader Aleksandar Nikoloski claims that the Boki 13 criminal scandal was only revealed due to international pressure, as foreign countries became aware of the widespread abuse of power in Macedonia. Zaev believed that if he changes the name of the country in the treasonous way he did,...
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